"Must have apps" - 64bit official repo requests

[edge226]

@fanthom,

I do not see it in the repository, do I need to do something special to refresh to repo list? I have done both update modules and update packages or whatever, Then searched.

Also I find myself wanting to try KDE 4 KCModule in Porteus. I would appreciate if that module were available for front end support on the wacom tablet. It did not work as I had expected in Mageia, then again gimp would not read jpg pictures in Mageia either. Gotta love a stable system like Porteus.

Posted after 1 hour 14 minutes 13 seconds:
Got the Repository to work however pulse audio is missing a library to connect up to alsa.

[fanthom]

pulse audio is missing a library to connect up to alsa.

please point me to this library.

[edge226]

Sorry,

aplay -Dpulse C
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
aplay: main:660: audio open error: No such device or address

[edge226]

Hello, I have both VLC and Gstreamer installed and yet phonon is not seeing them as valid back ends, Only mplayer is showing up. I think I need to use a different back end to get the functionality I need. How do I get the missing back ends to show up?

[fanthom]

@edge226

merged here as this is not a bug but rather missing packages.
both backends are added to the repo now - search for 'phonon-vlc' and 'phonon-gstreamer'.

[edge226]

great, thanks for the fix.

[att]

Sorry to request the same module again, but "Teamviewer" was updated again - it had the same problem as before, "security update".
Can someone do an update...?

[edge226]

I find myself getting a little restless these days and would really like Play on Linux to work. I cannot seem to get past a few errors. It would be much appreciated if Play on Linux would be added to the repository. It is the most user friendly free windows emulator available and It is definitely a must have for people that want to easily emulate windows programs.

Please and Thank you.

[fanthom]

@att
in the repo now

@edge226
i have got POL to work but didtn't try OpenGL stuff as i dont have any game around.
please download following modules (and all their deps) through PPM:

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playonlinux
python
wxPython
cabextract
xdg-user-dirs

you will also need compat32-libraries from here:
link

please make sure you delete wxWidgets module (if you have it) as it's overlapping with wxPython.

with this setup i was able to run 7ZIP application on my 64bit box (proper wine version was downloaded automatically).

3D stuff will require proprietary drivers which contains 32bit libraries (fglrx, nVidia) or 32bit mesa for opensource drivers (mesa deps must be resolved manually).
i guess that the key point is to change /usr/lib/libGL.so symlink and point it to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to get 32bit direct rendering.
didn't try myself so can't say for sure if it's enough.

Cheers

[edge226]

my simple go program works, Steam or anything game wise does not unfortunately. Thanks for at least getting so I can use my Go Dojo and study up on go in more ways

[att]

Hello, all...

I think it is strange, but I cannot spot "wine" or "virtualbox" anywhere in the download section of the "64bit modules" porteus mainpage...
Am I doing something wrong?
I'd love to see "wine" and "virtualbox" around!

[beny]

virtualbox it is a standalone package: http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/current/ ... 4-1ftm.xzm wine via ppm i think, but not shure

[fanthom]

@att

VirtualBox depends on specific kernel version and i prefer to keep in a folder with certain releases to avoid users confusion (PPM could be used by Porteus 1.0/1.1/1.2 users)

wine is 32bit and requires compat32-libraries module. mixing 32bit and 64bit libraries in the repo is not a good idea as PPM may not work correctly.

i will add wine to the separated folder:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/packages/
which wont be tracked by PPM.

Cheers

[att]

Sorry, about wine....
I have a Wine module version which seems to be a native 64 bit module:

"wine-1.3.5-x86_64.xzm" : wine-1.3.5-x86_64.xzm 26.058.752 15.03.2011 17:09 -a--

Soooo, it seems, there IS an (old!) version of wine that does not need 32bit compat lib and whatnot?
I cannot remember where I downloaded it from, but it worked fine for me till now... I just wanted to update to newest wine, ya know...

So maybe we can make a native 64 bit module of wine, it seems. What do you say?

[fanthom]

So maybe we can make a native 64 bit module of wine, it seems. What do you say?

this is not perfect solution as most Win software is still 32bit and some old stuff is 32bit only.
64bit wine wont be able to run these....

32bit wine + compat32-libraries is IMHO better under 64bit OS.