antiX-23 Package Installer help needed

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

I need help in finding out which options do not work on antiX-23-alpha since one person checking every option will take hundreds of hours.
Many hands make light work.

I have already checked these categories, so no need for others to do so.

Audio
Browser
Children
Desktop Environment
Development
Disks
Docks
Email
Filers
Flash
Ftp
Graphics
Icons

I’m going to be very busy over the next week or so (real life work) so in order to avoid people doing the same, I suggest volunteers post here stating which category(ies) they will check. I will monitor this thread, but not organise the ‘teams’.

Thanks

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[Moderator caprea]

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I’m going to check

Office
Video
Kernel

From the category Office the following packages do not install
– adobe-reader (in the briefly flashing terminal window I think I read something about depency problems)
– Dictionary
– Libre-office latest full
– Libre-office latest main

From the category Video only one package does not install
– openshot (even though it seems to install from synaptic)

From the Kernels only the
– Debian Fallback Kernel 4.19
does not install

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[Member Wallon]

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Hello,

As already mentioned, java does not install.

Best regards,
Wallon

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I’ll check our editors; will come back and add anything else I specifically check.

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[Member olsztyn]

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anticapitalista wrote:

I need help in finding out which options do not work on antiX-23-alpha

The only material issue I encountered was that system-config-printer was not working as I reported close to the end of antiX 23 alpha thread.
Using version 1.5.16-1.0nosystemd1, the latest nosystemd version available in place of 1.5.18-1 Debian version, system-config-printer fails to pop up the config window.
The fix I used was rather simple – remove a some polkit related files (I do not have the exact names at my fingertips at the moment). Removing those items has fixed printing config issues and antiX 23 became fully functional.
No other material issues found on my side.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Moderator caprea]

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@Olsztyn, please note, this thread here refers only to the Package Installer on antiX23.

[Member olsztyn]

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caprea wrote:

@Olsztyn, please note, this thread here refers only to the Package Installer on antiX23.

Thank you. My misunderstanding, read too quickly without paying attention to title…
Please disregard my note…

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Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Brian Masinick wrote:

I’ll check our editors; will come back and add anything else I specifically check.

Duplicated one of the development options and tested Atom; it works.
Verified Soft Office installation and basic capabilities.

Each of these were either installed or reinstalled using Package Installer and then tested with simple capabilities.

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[Member Robin]

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anticapitalista wrote:

I need help in finding out which options do not work

Hello anticapitalista,
please, could you outline which way this testing is to be done? And which is the proper starting entry in Menu (or command on console) to get the proper package installer started for the testing? Seems there are more than a single package management tool listed in the menus, and also in control center are some others. Not sure whether I’ve got started the one you want to check.
Sorry for my ignorance, but I’ve never used one of them, since I run all package installing and updates on console using apt commands directly always.
Many greetings
Robin

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Just completed checking out the LaTeX options; looks good.

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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@Robin – it is the app called Package Installer in the menu (Applications > System)
On the IceWM toolbar it is called Software Installer

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Installed and removed the Media Center apps.
When removal was complete, I had to autoremove packages that were not 100% removed; otherwise it did install fine.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I was able to install and uninstall the Messaging Apps; it would be nice if a few people would test one or two of the messaging components; I did not actually TEST them; I simply installed and uninstalled to verify Package Installer; that part works.

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[Member Robin]

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anticapitalista wrote:

it is the app called Package Installer in the menu (Applications > System)

Since not on an English localised antiX system the Name in menu doesn’t help much. But I tried:

$ grep -F "Name=Package Installer" /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
/usr/share/applications/packageinstaller.desktop:Name=Package Installer

$ grep "^Name\[de\]=" /usr/share/applications/packageinstaller.desktop
Name[de]=Programmpaket-Installation

Translation must be checked, probably in all languages, to match the expression used in different places of antiX.

anticapitalista wrote:

On the IceWM toolbar it is called Software Installer

That makes it easily clear, in this place is a single one only, even when it is named differently again in this place.
Thanks!

So from what I’ve read here from the other posters, we are supposed to check not merely whether the programs are present in the sections and the translations match, but whether each of them actually installs properly. I suspect we need to check the proper functionality of all programs installed this way? We need to remind of programs which on first glance seemed to come up fine, but only when checking them in full usage it turned out, some important piece was missing. Examples are gaupol or kdenlive, from first glance you wouldn’t guess some important parts of these wont work without additionally installing some non-declared dependencies (which are present on a default true debian system, so the maintainer and most users won’t notice this).

So I guess, the way of testing to be observed here is: Install a program via this package installer, and then check whether the program is lacking of something, by performing a full function check on it, then uninstall it again, also using the package installer, and check whether any unwanted residues remain on the system?

And then, I believe the test must be run from a virgin antiX Live system, not having any other software installed on it, but remastered with all recent updates in it? Otherwise the results may not be significant, some required packages might have been drawn in on the testers system already before, so their lack in an installation from the package installer entry will be concealed.

And finally, I believe this test must be repeated on 32 bit hardware, when 32bit ISO is available, since nowadays some dependencies might be missing on 32 bit already.

I’ll start with the 64bit testing as soon I have managed to prepare a Live USB stick from ISO, apt-updated and remastered, but without any additionally installed programs.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Going to check the category

Misc
Non-Free
Printing

Following packages do not install from Misc
– Java
– VirtualBox
Google Earth Pro installs, but apt from now on complains about
http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.

Non-free package does not install
– Non-Free codecs

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