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(this post was moved from https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/todays-antix-upgrades/#post-101397, because it was partly off topic there)
Continuing the analisys of today’s upgrade:
app-select newest version is available. On this particular system it starts in 3 seconds and then in about 2 seconds – not quite at rofi level of start speed, but almost instant. On newer systems, it should start instantly.
Package Installer – it’s still the same version, but it’s contents got a major augmentation, with almost every single application some 90% of users may want to install (I haven’t checked it out in a while, so I’m not sure what’s new):
-Remote access- teamviewer and Remmina…
-Desktops- includes f10-transformation (thanks for that, anticapitalista!) and the most known DE’s in existence: KDE, Gnome, Xfce, LxQT, Budgie, Cinnamon, Mate (some have several versions available)
-Audio includes -MuseScore
-Multimedia centers- kodi and plex
-Office includes Foliate Epub reader (I think this is only missing Onlyoffice now)
-Graphics- includes Blender, Inkscape, darktable, scribus…
-Wallpapers – now you can install your favourite wallpapers from antiX 17-21!!!
-Children- it has almost everything available under Linux. I have a small child, so I know the single thing it’s lacking: a dedicated entry for Gcompris (it’s included in one of the available packs, I just noticed)
-Games – Wow: emulators galore: Mame, retroarch, ScummVM. You had Steam already, now you also have Lutris, to play Linux and Windows Commercial games. You also get some of the very best open source games available under Linux: 0 A.D., flight Gear, Freeciv and FreeCol, SuperTux, SuperTuxKar, Torcs (there’s a newer fork of Torcs available, but I forgot it’s name)
-Messaging: among others you have Zoom, Skype, Ms-Teams, Telegram, Signal
-Browsers – almost every Browser available in our galaxy!!! 20 of them.
-Networking – Megasync, NordVPN, AirVPN, ExpressVPN, Open Drive, Rclone (that allows access to about any cloud service, but it’s a pain to set up) and Tor!
-Torrent: qbittorrent, rtorrent, transmission
-Video- Kdenline, Openshot, Xine Media Player (the best video media player on my very old computers- I can play full HD video on a 32bits, 20 years old laptop, with it!!!)
-Screen recorders: obs, recordmydesktop, simpleScreen_Recorder.Extra: I just noticed – now there’s skippy-xd available too- it’s a GUI way to preview all non minized windows in real time- it’s so good I think it should come by default in antiX, with an icon on the toolbar – it adds some (eye candy) functionality, using almost zero system resources!
Basically, P.I. is now a real “App Store”- it allows to install almost any browser, and the best well known image and video apps, the best game emulators, some of the best ways to play commercial games ( two thirds of all the ways I know how to play Windows Games on Linux)
Many thanks, anticapitalista!
(this post was moved from https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/todays-antix-upgrades/#post-101446, because it was partly off topic there)
Ungoogled Chromium version available in Package Installer is 95.0.4638.54-1. On github the available version is 110.0.5481.100-1 (https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases/tag/110.0.5481.100-1)
Please note that the generic link to get the latest version does not yet have the application’s .deb package (just some auxiliary ones): https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases
If that gets updated, I suggest that P.I. link should point to the chromium binary’s .deb package on that folder, and also to the localization .deb package, at least. If needed, I can help provide a simple script that P.I. can run to try to achieve that.
P.
(I moved this post from https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/todays-antix-upgrades/page/2/#post-101447 because it was partly off topic there)
Ungoogled Chromium version available in Package Installer is 95.0.4638.54-1. On github the available version is 110.0.5481.100-1
Please note that the generic link to get the latest version does not yet have the application’s .deb package (just some auxiliary ones): https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases
If that gets updated, I suggest that P.I. link should point to the chromium binary’s .deb package on that folder, and also to the localization .deb package, at least. If needed, I can help provide a simple script that P.I. can run to try to achieve that.
On the Wallpaper’s package – artwork19-antiX conflicts with artwork18-antix – was the “18” .deb placed in the repo by mistake? I now have my favourite wallpapers on antiX 22- Tenerif Auditorium, The train station, Crosses, etc… Many thanks for that, anticapitalista!
Just to make all suggestions about P.I. on the same post:
– Add, in Office: OnlyOffice – in my opinion, it’s not as feature rich as LibreOffice or even OpenOffice, but it’s probably ideal for people crying over not having Ms Office on Linux, if they have only basic needs. Side note: for some reason, by default, it’s extremely hard to write the narration of a dialog in Portuguese, using OnlyOffice. The speech of a character, in pt, is placed between “-“. OnlyOffice does not deal well with that, it seems to assume I want to create a bullet point or some sort of thing…
– Either point Ungoogled Chromium to the .deb files on https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases (that not always provide a package for the binary – once again, weird) or remove that entry. An greatly outdated browser is a security risk.
– On Games – I think the main Game related package that is still missing is Heroic Game launcher, that’s basically Epic Game Launcher for Linux, that allow users to play many commercial Windows only games. As a “pro”, Epic usually gives away one commercial game a week (I have over 100 of them, without ever spending a cent). The .deb package is available over at https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/latest
Steam, Lutris and Heroic are the trifecta that allow a great percentage of Windows only commercial games to be (mostly easily) played on Linux (all the ones I play on Heroic is just – log on, install, they either play, or don’t play).Edit: How could I have forgotten it- include Robin’s TV streaming GUI script in the repo and in P.I. – it’s a nice “antiX only application”.
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antiX-Updater IS translated for this version.
I’m sorry, anticapitalista, but I have an antiX 22 full, 64 bits runit; antiX 21 full, 64 bits, antiX 19 full, all in pt-pt, and, for some reason, antiX-updater always comes up in English. (I have a 32bits system, but I haven’t used it in a while).
Marcelocripe reports the same situation, in several pt-br installs (I’m not sure what versions of antiX are used in those cases).I just decided to “insist” on this because I basically reworked antiX-Updater to accommodate Brazilian users that did not know how to use the previous version of antix-updater, and they got even more clueless because they suddenly got a window with options in English. Usually I would just say “wait for localizations”. But an updater is an important part of any OS, to be on a language they do not understand…
If problems do not get reported, they don’t get solved, right?Thanks for testing antiX updater – may I ask in what version you performed that test?
P.
- This reply was modified 2 months ago by PPC.
- This reply was modified 2 months ago by PPC.
@anticapitalista – I think I know what’s the “problem” with antiX-updater localizations: they work only on antix 23a1- here’s what I did:
-I booted into antiX 23a1; performed “sudo apt update”, then sudo apt install antix-goodies, followed by sudo apt install yad-goodies.
The antiX-updater on yad-goodies does in fact contain the localization files. The version of the script included in antix-goodies (for antiX 21/22 and 19) does not. Can that be it?P.
anticapitalista
@anticapitalista – I think I know what’s the “problem” with antiX-updater localizations: they work only on antix 23a1- here’s what I did:
-I booted into antiX 23a1; performed “sudo apt update”, then sudo apt install antix-goodies, followed by sudo apt install yad-goodies.
The antiX-updater on yad-goodies does in fact contain the localization files. The version of the script included in antix-goodies (for antiX 21/22 and 19) does not. Can that be it?P.
Yes. As I posted in the other thread, they have only been localised (for now) for antiX-23.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
deb-installer works on antiX22/21 here, too. As long as you have not pkexec installed. If pkexec is installed for using it the changes I wrote above are needed. Not the fault of deb-installer but quite normal behavior imo.
Thanks, @Caprea – I have no idea why I have pkexec installed on this system (probably because gnome app center dragged it in). If I serch for “pkexec” with apt, it comes up blank, so I do not know how to purge it, without doing a deep dive on duckduckgo…
I tried installing policykit-1-gnome and enabling, on /.desktop-session startup file/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
I logged off and back again. I still got an error when trying to install a package with deb-installer.
I tried running the command /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
I got:
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:10768): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: 15:29:22.282: Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 10768
Do you make anything from that info?P.
As I posted in the other thread, they have only been localised (for now) for antiX-23.
Many thanks for confirming this! I was unsure if “antiX-Updater IS translated for this version.” meant antiX 22 or antiX 23 (i.e. the “this” refered to the version you are talking about or the one I was talking about). I created this thread so there is no doubt about which version I’m referring to. Sorry my initial posts on the subject where on a “Sid” thread. I noticed the posts title, but not the topic it was in. I’ll try to be more careful with that in the future.
Like I always say: we are all voluntaries here, things get done when they get done! 🙂
Now I’m just struggling with the fact that deb-installer fails on my antiX 21 and 22 systems… I tried caprea’s tips.
- This reply was modified 2 months ago by PPC.
Xunzi_23
One info post not moved, Anyways.
Ungoogled deb is available from the page linked in Debian Wiki, copied by me.
https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases
On that page you need to click the Stable latest release tab.
that opens
https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/releases/tag/110.0.5481.177-1UngoogledChromium deb is near bottom of asset list
- This reply was modified 2 months ago by Xunzi_23.
marcelocripe
anticapitalista wrote:
This thread relates to sid/testing/antiX23 users not antiX-22.
antiX-Updater IS translated for this version.
deb-installer works just fine on antiX-23.I added some line breaks to the pt_BR translation texts to get a nicer look.
Sorry for the inconvenience.– – – – –
anticapitalista wrote:
This thread relates to sid/testing/antiX23 users not antiX-22.
antiX-Updater IS translated for this version.
deb-installer works just fine on antiX-23.Eu adicionei algumas quebras de linhas nos textos da tradução pt_BR para obter uma aparência mais bonita.
Desculpe-me pelo incoveniente.I finally made MX’s deb-installer work in my antiX 22 runit that had (for some reason) pkexec already installed.
antiX Menu > Terminalsudo geany /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mxlinux.pkexec.debinstaller.apt.policyEdit this line:
<allow_any>no</allow_any> so it reads <allow_any>yes</allow_any>
Save the file.Now deb-installer works on my system. I hope this helps folks with similar problems…
P.
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