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BASIC install of 19.20.1 and it works pretty well! Several programs – Links2, Manage Packages, Package Installer, etc. simply do not work.

This is 64 or 32 bits?
First, when booting from DVD, did you check iso integrity?

Press F4 in the boot screen and checkmd5 or checkfs to see if the DVD is OK.

Then, the second question is, did you check you had internet connection?
ping google.com

none of them (Links2, Manage Packages, Package Installer) will work without internet.

PFO wrote:

A. What is the command that prints out the status on my laptop, to assist bug-fix & optimizing?

How to ask for help

anticapitalista wrote:

When you first get here, we know you are confused and like lost in the woods a bit. To help us help you.
Whenever you 1st join the forums, give us these readouts from a terminal.
Just copy and paste then highlight the text on the page and click on code button.

These readouts will help us to help you.

inxi -zv7

But you can also use

inxi -Fxz

To show us your repositories.

inxi -r

PFO wrote:

B. How do I UPGRADE to FULL install of 19.20.1 OR 19.30 without burning a DVD?

Upgrading the system on the internet is enough to update it to 19.3. For full, you just need to install some extra packages from the package installer (libreoffice latest, synaptic package manager, and little more). Really, antiX base is enough. The rest can be downloaded if really needed.

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Sorry for the very late answer PFO
The programs from controlcentre that don’t work on base are synaptic and packageinstaller

sudo apt install synaptic packageinstaller

Here is an old list for antiX17, what is missing on base,

https://antixlinux.com/applications-on-antix-full-but-not-included-on-antix-base/

Some packages from the list might are not needed anymore on antiX19, eg wicd
some packages you might not need.

Just found again a post from skidoo , also containing a link to a newer list on pastebin.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/difference-between-base-and-full-iso/#post-29964

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@PFO: I think Moddit’s comment was a follow up of my previous comment, not an answer to your question (folks “hijacked” your thread with tips on how to use low specs computers, me included…)

B. How do I UPGRADE to FULL install of 19.20.1 OR 19.30 without burning a DVD?
(No access to DVD burner.)
Putting all previous answers on a more consise one (divided into 2 parts):
1 -To update from antiX 19.X to 19.30 simply
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Please note that when you check your OS version, it will always point to the original version you started with ( 19.20.1, in your case)
2 -To update to “FULL” -like Xecure said, you have to install the components that don’t come with the “Base” version.
Check out skidoo’s posts on that.
For most common uses, you are simply missing “Synaptic” package manager, “packageinstaller” and “LibreOffice”
Like Caprea said, you can install the missing packages from the command line:
sudo apt install synaptic packageinstaller libreoffice

(If you really want to have the same libreoffice version that comes with antiX “Full”, skip the last part of the above command (“libreoffice”) and install LibreOffice lastest version from package installer > Office > Office-LibreOffice(US)Latest_full

C. Other suggestions?
Yes, see many previous posts on this thread, including the ones talking about badwolf internet browser, if you want to use low powered devices to surf the web… Also take a look at the “tips and tricks” thread…

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PFO wrote:

Hey Dawgs,

So here I am after two weeks playing with a BASIC install of 19.20.1 and it works pretty well! Several programs – Links2, Manage Packages, Package Installer, etc. simply do not work. So, I have a few questions:

A. What is the command that prints out the status on my laptop, to assist bug-fix & optimizing?

I’m not sure what you mean.

The inxi command shows information about the hardware and software, for example
sudo inxi -Fxz

B. How do I UPGRADE to FULL install of 19.20.1 OR 19.30 without burning a DVD?
(No access to DVD burner.)

If you don’t care about the release name, simply do
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then use either the package installer, synaptic or apt to install whatever other software that you want. No external media is required.

C. Other suggestions?

If you have a few USB ports get a USB jump drive stick and use it to install software.

Carry-on til you are carrion . . .

PFO

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Hey DAWGS,

Here is the digital-daddy-wack readout of the 32 BIT – CD loaded 19.2.1 Basic HP celeron M Laptop. Burned a CD, because the hardware is too old to burn DVDs like most WIN XP boxes here in SE Europe – SO I have to work within the environment where I`ve landed.
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System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 dm: SLiM 1.3.6
Distro: antiX-19.2.1_386-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard
product: HP Compaq nx6110 (EK048ES#AKN) v: F.0A serial: <filter> Chassis:
type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3088 v: KBC Version 39.1C serial: <filter>
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68DTD Ver. F.0A date: 07/25/2005
Battery:
ID-1: C171 charge: 8.8 Wh condition: 8.8/8.8 Wh (100%) volts: 12.5/10.8
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 486.0 MiB used: 316.3 MiB (65.1%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: M Dothan rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB bogomips: 3000
Speed: 1500 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1500
Flags: acpi apic bts clflush cmov cx8 de dts fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr
pae pbe pge pse sep ss sse sse2 tm tsc vme
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics
vendor: Hewlett-Packard NX6110/NC6120 driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2592
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard NX6110/NC6120 driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1e.2 chip ID: 8086:266e
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 2580
bus ID: 02:04.0 chip ID: 14e4:4318
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Hewlett-Packard NX6110/NC6120 driver: b44 v: 2.0 port: 2580
bus ID: 02:0e.0 chip ID: 14e4:170c
IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 3.88 GiB (6.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: IC25N060ATMR04-0 size: 55.89 GiB
speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: AD5A scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: MATSHITA model: UJ-840D rev: 1.02
dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 9.07 GiB used: 3.81 GiB (42.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
label: rootantiX19 uuid: 7acf51af-55b9-40b7-a592-2fcb87c1c938
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.59 GiB used: 78.3 MiB (3.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
label: N/A uuid: ad1f8051-2f56-42a1-b516-2cb2fdd0e7bc
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 9.38 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 96B04EF6B04EDC7D
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 132 Uptime: 37m Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm
inxi: 3.0.36
PFO@antix1:~
$
PFO@antix1:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5
Distro: antiX-19.2.1_386-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard
product: HP Compaq nx6110 (EK048ES#AKN) v: F.0A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3088 v: KBC Version 39.1C serial: <filter>
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68DTD Ver. F.0A date: 07/25/2005
Battery:
ID-1: C171 charge: 8.8 Wh condition: 8.8/8.8 Wh (100%)
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Full
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: M Dothan rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3000
Speed: 1500 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1500
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics
vendor: Hewlett-Packard NX6110/NC6120 driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard NX6110/NC6120 driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1e.2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 2580
bus ID: 02:04.0
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Hewlett-Packard NX6110/NC6120 driver: b44 v: 2.0 port: 2580
bus ID: 02:0e.0
IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 3.92 GiB (7.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: IC25N060ATMR04-0 size: 55.89 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 9.07 GiB used: 3.81 GiB (42.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.59 GiB used: 119.1 MiB (4.5%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 137 Uptime: 57m Memory: 486.0 MiB used: 317.8 MiB (65.4%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
inxi: 3.0.36
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This should help you to understand my somewhat primitive but certainly workable situation.

I`m reviewing your posts and will be back to you this evening (GST +1)

Carrion-on til you are carrion . . .
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Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/softmaker.list
1: deb http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt wheezy non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

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Your repos seem to be good. And I can see you have been able to install softmaker’s freeoffice (or tryied to install it using the package installer or other sources).
That means internet is working for you OK, right (meaning you can connect and it works on the antiX machine, can open websites, etc.)?

So, when you say:

PFO wrote:

Several programs – Links2, Manage Packages, Package Installer, etc. simply do not work.

What exactly is the response of these programs?
Is it that they don’t launch? or if they open properly, they don’t do as expected? It would be good if you can explain what exactly doesn’t work (launching, moving the window, buttons dont do anything, you cannot close the window, etc.) or you give us a bit more information of your experience using them.

I initially thought it would be related to internet connection, but you didn’t mention any internet problems so I can discard the posibility.

I hope we can help you solve the problems so you can have a positive experience with antiX on your computer.

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I was able to upgrade several packages today using a very similar configuration. Yesterday the la.mxrepo was behind in collecting all of the updates, perhaps it was either offline for a few hours or overloaded during the weekend. This morning it was fine and up to date. Rayloo had temporary issues with the same site and I believe that he also was able to update later, so try again and let us know if this is working for you now or not.

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Hello Xecure,

Let`s answer your questions first.

LINKS2 just opens as a blank gray screen. I diownloaded an upgrade and unpacked the tar.gz file but have no idea how to proceed from there.

Tried to install Softmaker’s Freeoffice with similar result.

MANAGE PACKEAGES gives me the following error when trying to UPGRADE PACKAGES:

Please select an action
= Upgrade 177 packages now
> View a list of packages to be upgraded
> Ignore these upgrades for now
> Update package index (last update Mon Nov 9 14:22:13 CET 2020)
Press <Enter> to select the highlighted entry
Use ‘h’ for help, ‘r’ to redraw, ‘q’ to go back to the main menu
=> apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt –fix-broken install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
google-earth-pro-stable : Depends: lsb-core (>= 3.2) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt –fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
dist-upgrade took 3.45 seconds
Warning: The apt-get command failed
Creating database …
database generation took 5.55 seconds

Suggestions gladly followed . . .

PFO

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Have you changed the repos? Post output of inxi -r

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

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PFO wrote:

LINKS2 just opens as a blank gray screen.

That is how it works. The first time you launch it, it tells you what button to use to navigate.
If you press F1 it will give you a small list of hotkeys.
Pressing Escape key will display the top menu. To go to a website, use the menu (File > Go to URL) and write the url there (for example antixlinux.com). Hit Enter and it will go to the URL. Links2 is mostly driven by keyboard shortcuts.

PFO wrote:

You might want to run ‘apt –fix-broken install’ to correct these.

Before fixing the packages, I recommend you change the repo mirror.
Control centre > Maintenance > Repo Manager
In the first tab for antiX mirrors, I would select a mirror in Greece or Italy, as they are most reliable and faster for your location. Select one and click apply.
On the second tab, for Debian repos, use the button at the bottom “Select faster Debian repo for me”. Apply and close.

To fix the packages, launch a terminal from the menu and do:

sudo apt update
sudo apt -f install
sudo apt upgrade

The first command is to update the packagelist so we are sure all packages to be downloaded are found (and to use the mirrors selected above).
The second command is to fix any broken packages.
The third command is optional, but recommended to get recent bugfixes. It may be a bit slow for a limited bandwidth, so you can ignore it.

If you decide not to install all updates, at least install the package installer updates so you can get the most recent packages from there.
sudo apt install packageinstaller

From there, try again to download Free Office from the program Package Installer (white bag-like icon on the toolbar or from Control Centre > System > Package Installer), or, as you already have it active in the repo lists, use the command:
sudo apt install softmaker-freeoffice-2018

If the above works, let us know of any other problems and we will try to help.

If the above doesn’t work, let us know what other errors or problems you see and we will also try to help solve them.

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Google Earth is not working with the current set-up.

My first suggestion is to remove it, at least temporarily.

sudo apt remove google-earth-pro-stable

Then

sudo apt update; sudo apt full-upgrade

That ought to get the existing software working. I doubt that the ‘pro’ version of Google Earth will work properly without disruption to the nosystemd infrastructure. You can experiment with that later if you wish, but it appears that is what caused at least one problem.

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Hey Dawgs,

Back with an HP desktop:
WIN XP
2 Ghrz Processor
2 Gig RAM
40 Gig HD

I partitioned the drive to:

10 Gig – WIN XP
10 Gig – antiX 19.2.1 Base
1.0 Gig – Linux Swap
18 Gig – Unused

But, antiX doesn’t Boot and I get a GRUB not found error message.

Advice?

Carry-on til you are carrion . . .

PFO

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Boot right back to the live antiX CD/DVD or USB and do two tests;
1. Find the antiX installation. In the boot menu of the live CD, select “Switch to Grub Bootloader”. The bootloader will switch to a grub bootloader. Select “Boot Rescue menus”.
See if you can find your antiX installation with “Find GRUB bootloaders”. If antiX is found, try to enter it.
If you can enter into your antiX installation, then you know antiX works but the grub didn’t install properly. If you couldn’t enter antiX, there is still hope. Follow step 2 using a antiX Live session instead of the installed system.

2. Fixing Grub with Boot Repair. If you could boot into your installed antiX system (or if doing this from a live session), go to the Control Centre and, in the Maintenance tab, use Boot Rescue to reinstall and then fix the grub installation.
Remember to install/fix grub in MBR option.
Reinstall grub will ask which partition antiX is installed in and where you want to install GRUB (select MBR installation).
After reinstalling grub, go back and select the FIX grub option (very important you do this also). Point it to where antiX is installed, and follow the steps.

If there is any problem during the process, please try to describe in detail what you did and what went wrong.
The worst case scenario is having to install antiX again.

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Xecure,

Reinstalled on whole (40 Gig) hardrive and GRUB still did not install on MBR sector.

BUT, cannot correct with Boot Repair due to PASSWORD – e.g. it won’t accept my password.

Advice?

PFO

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