Browser selection and update tool

[francois]

With porteus 5.01, I had an issue with the updating of google chrome. The Browser selection and update tool will not work at all.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# uname -r
5.18.8-porteus

I have used

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root@porteus:/home/guest# update-browser -g

which works fine.

I admit that I am working with a mount iso porteus system with save changes.

Is this a behavior to be expected from the Browser selection and update tool?
Thanks.

[roadie]

@francois

The browser selection tool is working fine from the menu for me.
However, regarding Google Chrome, while it shows the latest version as being 119.0.6045.159, it instead downloads version 117.0.5938.132.

[francois]

Thanks for the feedback roadie.

[ncmprhnsbl]

root@porteus:/home/guest# uname -r
5.18.8-porteus

are you sure this is v5.01 iso?
the kernel that comes with v5.01 is 6.5.5

The Browser selection and update tool will not work at all.

works fine here
which DE and what's the output of $ gtk-browser-update

However, regarding Google Chrome, while it shows the latest version as being 119.0.6045.159, it instead downloads version 117.0.5938.132.

can only assume that you answered y to "Would you like to download the porteus server version? [y/n]" , instead of the next question after choosing n

[roadie]

can only assume that you answered y to "Would you like to download the porteus server version? [y/n]" , instead of the next question after choosing n

You are correct.....and I stand corrected. You are given the choice of downloading the latest version if you decline the server version.

[francois]

@ncmprhnsbl:
I have a few linux boxes and they are not all up to date with porteus. Which is why I gave uname -r:

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guest@porteus:~$ uname -r
5.18.8-porteus

Looking in my /mnt/sdb3/isos/ I can confirm that this is porteus 5.0. Maybe it is not really worth your attention and your time. Though I have an unsolved issue on a second linux box with porteus 5.01: blazes printing module will not work for me (I am the execption).

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guest@porteus:~$ gtk-browser-update
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gtk-browser-update", line 8, in <module>
    import gi
ImportError: No module named gi
guest@porteus:~$ 

Thanks.

Note once more, as a bad practice:
I admit that I am working with a mount iso porteus system with save changes.

[Ed_P]

Note once more, as a bad practice:
I admit that I am working with a mount iso porteus system with save changes.

I would hardly call that a bad practice since I've been doing that for years. And that is not what you said here:

All my actual needs are met by porteus thru hdd install thru the iso file.

And an advantage of using ISOs is it is easy to change releases; download the new ISO, change the grub2 boot script to refer to the new ISO and boot.

What does this show when you run it on your system?

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ISO=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed -e 's/^.*from=//' -e 's/ .*$//'`
echo ISO: $ISO

[ncmprhnsbl]

ImportError: No module named gi

somehow, your python is messed up, and none of the porteus gui apps/dialogs(apart from gtkdialog ones) will work..
taking a wild guess, it could be that you have python2 installed and it has linked /usr/bin/python to it instead of python3

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ll /usr/bin | grep python

or less likely that you've somehow removed gobject-introspection or pygobject..