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 Posted: Feb 26, 2007 - 11:40 AM
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Cathbard wrote:
Sorry, but I can't take credit for the graphics on the disc, the only thing of mine on the iso is the grub and a couple of icons.
Hey Cathpard,
I think, the splash (kde-start) screen, too ?
The graphics are phantastic ! |
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Posted: Feb 26, 2007 - 06:48 PM
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Hi MintabiePete
Nice to see you here, glad you like it, very fast indeed  |
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Posted: Feb 28, 2007 - 09:42 PM
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I just installed sidux this past weekend. So far, I'm impressed. It's a very fast, clean, easy to install and use distro. I'm most impressed with the speed, and the fact it's not a memory hog (Kubuntu would always go into swap upon start up, with my 256mg laptop).
I did a dist-upgrade that went perfectly.
I've added a bunch of packages, mostly without incident.
I've added non-free stuff (**multimedia**, Java6, etc), which worked well.
Only hiccups:
1. After having apt-geting the kde-devel meta package, when I try to install the Xfce meta package it wants to remove the kde-devel stuff. That is the sort of thing I've always experienced with Debian Sid or Testing based distros, due to the volatility of the those repos.
2. I've been able to install a bunch of Java stuff, including the JDK, Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, and Tomcat. However, the NetBeans .bin installer always fails (it did not ever fail in any other Debian distro). I'm not sure what the cause is.
But apart from those hiccups, sidux is quite sweet. I'm looking forward to future releases. Great job sidux team!!
BTW - quick question, being that sidux aims to bring some stability to Debian Sid, are there any recommendations as to how often I should dist-upgrade, and what kind of gotchas to look out for - in order to avoid getting a borked system (which has happened to me numerous times in the past)?
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Posted: Feb 28, 2007 - 10:09 PM
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1. After having apt-geting the kde-devel meta package, when I try to install the Xfce meta package it wants to remove the kde-devel stuff. That is the sort of thing I've always experienced with Debian Sid or Testing based distros, due to the volatility of the those repos.
2. I've been able to install a bunch of Java stuff, including the JDK, Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, and Tomcat. However, the NetBeans .bin installer always fails (it did not ever fail in any other Debian distro). I'm not sure what the cause is.
Both are actually very interesting bugs - could you please re-post them one by one and add the exact errors you receive?
Thanks & Greetings,
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Posted: Feb 28, 2007 - 10:33 PM
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slam wrote:
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1. After having apt-geting the kde-devel meta package, when I try to install the Xfce meta package it wants to remove the kde-devel stuff. That is the sort of thing I've always experienced with Debian Sid or Testing based distros, due to the volatility of the those repos.
2. I've been able to install a bunch of Java stuff, including the JDK, Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, and Tomcat. However, the NetBeans .bin installer always fails (it did not ever fail in any other Debian distro). I'm not sure what the cause is.
Both are actually very interesting bugs - could you please re-post them one by one and add the exact errors you receive?
Thanks & Greetings,
Chris
The Xfce thing was simply apt, either in the command line or in synaptic, saying it was going to remove the kde-devel packages, with asking whether or not to proceed. I would say "N" of course. There were no errors. The command I gave was simply apt-get install xfce.
For the NetBeans thing, the error would flash by so fast I could not read them, then it would exit. I downloaded the NetBeans bundled with JBoss, and the bin file is called jboss-4_0_5-nb-5_5-linux.bin.
The command I would give, as I've always done when installing NetBeans on Linux is
./jboss-4_0_5-nb-5_5-linux.bin
And the error messages would flash by. So then I used a pipe to redirect output, like so:
./jboss-4_0_5-nb-5_5-linux.bin | joutput
Here is the repeated message:
./jboss-4_0_5-nb-5_5-linux.bin line 404: [: : integer expression expected
./jboss-4_0_5-nb-5_5-linux.bin line 189: bc: command not found
And it would repeat these two error messages over and over, on subsequent lines.
My best guess is that the .bin file is trying to use the default (installed with sidux) gcj/gij, instead of the regular Sun Java (which I've installed, and configured to use). That would make sense, since gcj does not fully support all of the Java API with gnu classpath. However, I also uninstalled gcj, and had the same problem. It's a mystery.
Anyway, all is not lost. I was able to find NetBeans .deb files, here:
http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian ... /netbeans/
But these debs insisted on Java5, were as I had installed Java6 (which is better, particularly for Swing). So then had to install Java5 in addition to Java6, and the NetBeans .deb files installed perfectly with dpkg - i nb.deb (abbreviated names, of course).
Thanks for your response, slam. I remember you on the Kanotix forums. I was a semi regular Kanotix user, but drifted due to Sid repo stability problems and no new releases in a long time.
But as I already said, sidux is really looking like an improved Kanotix, and looks really promising. |
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Posted: Aug 23, 2008 - 02:10 PM
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| you need to install the bc package. |
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Posted: Aug 24, 2008 - 03:20 AM
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askani wrote:
you need to install the bc package.
You need to check dates on threads |
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Posted: Aug 24, 2008 - 05:07 PM
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| Cleary... Just following up with my own experience. I just hit it what searching for sidux and NetBeans in google. I'm giving a lot of sidux awareness in the NetBeans testiing since I file the platform (sidux) with every issue I find with NetBeans during the acceptability testing. |
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Posted: Aug 24, 2008 - 09:54 PM
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Strong bump there askani 
Forgot about this old thread, and it still shows the enthusiasm behind sidux... |
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