Dev1 Galaxy Forum / [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:34:47 +0000

Yad is in ascii, and you can install it from the repo, but that one uses gtk3. If that works for you, fine. But if you find that buttons you want to click are off-screen, use the package I made for gtk2. Even though it's for jessie, it works on ascii.

For the desktop-live isos, I just installed yad and refracta tools from deb packages.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (garyz.dev1) — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:06:55 +0000

thanks @fsmithred - I never had to manually install yad
it must have come in with the 4 refracta installs
[I left my 'ascii' repositories and just added the 'experimental'
(for the eudev load)]
root@ascii32:~# apt-cache policy yad
yad:
Installed: 0.38.2-1
Candidate: 0.38.2-1
Version table:
*** 0.38.2-1 500
500 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged ascii/main i386 Packagest

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:41:01 +0000

You are right, I forgot I had them to begin with and during a careless upgrade from jessie to ascii refracta was dropped, so this is how I got them back. In miyo one of the four was missing.
Yad exists in ascii right? Wouldn't it work in jessie if he updated to ascii install only yad and return to jessie and reupdate.
Just stay away from autoremove as it will all be gone again, right?

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:57:42 +0000

Gary:
Install all four packages (or just the -base packages). If you install the -gui packages, you also need yad, which is not in jessie repos.
You can get that at http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … _packages/ (either version will work in jessie. The later version will work in ascii.)

apt-cache search refracta
refractainstaller-base - tool to install a running live-CD to hard drive.
refractainstaller-gui - tool to install a running live-CD to hard drive.
refractasnapshot-base - tool to create a live-CD from the running system
refractasnapshot-gui - tool to create a live-CD from the running system

Gus:
If you comment out all but experimental, you won't get any dependencies.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:40:47 +0000

I don't like having 2-3 steps of repositories open in any single instance as it is an accident waiting to happen.
When I used experimental I used it alone by commenting out all others. I had no problem installing any of the above. Then I commented it out and brought back the regular distribution repositories. Unless there was a temporary problem with the repository.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (garyz.dev1) — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:16:48 +0000

well today I am working on a 32bit ascii iso - syslog-ng & eudev installed
got 'experimental' loaded in sources.list
and tried :: [notice I didn't do apt-get -t experimental packagename
**
devuan@ascii32:~$ sudo apt-get install refractasnapshot refractainstaller
[sudo] password for devuan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package refractainstaller is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
refractainstaller-gui refractainstaller-base

Package refractasnapshot is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
refractasnapshot-base refractasnapshot-gui

E: Package 'refractasnapshot' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'refractainstaller' has no installation candidate
devuan@ascii32:~$

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:57:37 +0000

@greenjeans:

You asked in irc about the differences between refractainstaller 9.2.1 and 9.2.2. Changes are mostly related to the uefi installer.

refractainstaller-gui (9.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Wrapper script tests for efi and selects correct installer.
* Better instructions at chroot terminal.
* Look for 'EFI System' in fdisk output, not just 'EFI'
* Simple install gets pre/post install scripts.
* Require text-entry if two EFI partitions are present.

One other change is that if you try to run the bios installer in a uefi environment, it complains and exits. (If you need to change this, you can comment out one line in the script)

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (MiyoLinux) — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 03:58:17 +0000

greenjeans wrote:

MiyoLinux wrote:
I'm working on new releases
Awesome news! Can't wait to see 'em, was playing with 32 bit Miyo all day yesterday.
MiyoLinux wrote:
One of these days, I hope to find time to build it with the latest version though and package it. For now though, the present version still works great on Jessie, Ascii, and Ceres...apart from having to reinstall it when upgrading from one to the next.
Been testing the new .99 version of the obmenu-generator script for a week or so, seems to function perfectly, still have not tested to see if it survives the ascii upgrade though.

It'll have a bit of a twist on Openbox.

Hopefully, it will help folks new to Openbox adapt with the default desktop, but experienced users who want a "classic Openbox" experience can easily change it. That's all I'm gonna stinkin' say. LOL!

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 23:54:11 +0000

No, but don't worry about it, I'll get used to it.
The fm works fine, but on LXDE (where you can have openbox menus) the desktop works like a fm.
I use a common folder for desktop for all installations, and that is where I arrange everything I am working on. With the basic desktop menu right-click gives you the options of ^C ^X ^V on files and folders. When I have obmenu or ob-generator on I lose that ability. Small thing really, I just thought that maybe you may know a way around it in making that menu-item. Dragging files to a subfolder of the desktop folder works the same and also doing it with keys ^C ^X ^V also works.

Anyway, don't waste any time on this, work on the i386 project, and keep it gnome free.
You vuu-do chile you!

Maybe we should get together and produce a guitar/music distro out of Devuan. Tuning, Recording, Editing, Publishing, Broadcasting. X-road-Vuu-do-chile Devuan or De-Mojo-vuan

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 22:05:19 +0000

fungus wrote:

How can I add Ctrl C Ctrl X Ctrl V in the generator menu?
It doesn't make much sense in openbox but in LXDE when you want to ctrl click a bunch of files and move them in a subfolder for example, if you have the
generator active you can't cut and paste stuff.
Insignificant little things but just in case you readily have an answer.

Not sure what's going on entirely, are you saying that when you right-click after ctrl-selecting all the things you want while in your file manager, that it's pulling up the generator menu instead of the regular right-click context menu that's supposed to come up when you click within the file manager?

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:40:17 +0000

How can I add Ctrl C Ctrl X Ctrl V in the generator menu?
It doesn't make much sense in openbox but in LXDE when you want to ctrl click a bunch of files and move them in a subfolder for example, if you have the
generator active you can't cut and paste stuff.

Insignificant little things but just in case you readily have an answer.

PS You two, have created a generator monster https://pasteboard.co/GEBOY5n.png

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:00:34 +0000

MiyoLinux wrote:

I'm working on new releases

Awesome news! Can't wait to see 'em, was playing with 32 bit Miyo all day yesterday.

MiyoLinux wrote:

One of these days, I hope to find time to build it with the latest version though and package it. For now though, the present version still works great on Jessie, Ascii, and Ceres...apart from having to reinstall it when upgrading from one to the next.

Been testing the new .99 version of the obmenu-generator script for a week or so, seems to function perfectly, still have not tested to see if it survives the ascii upgrade though.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 08:33:07 +0000

That solved the puzzle, I thought the package was native in stable and was discontinued, this is why it was thrown away when I upgraded to ascii/ceres.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (MiyoLinux) — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:15:55 +0000

Well, obmenu-generator was never in the repos. I installed it from a .deb when I built Miyo.

One of these days, I hope to find time to build it with the latest version though and package it. For now though, the present version still works great on Jessie, Ascii, and Ceres...apart from having to reinstall it when upgrading from one to the next.

I am including a copy of the obmenu-generator .deb (in the upcoming releases) so that users will have it handy if they do upgrade.

Thanks for the kind words about Miyo, but they're undeserved.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are the refracta scripts?

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:52:12 +0000

I think miyo deserves to become the official Devuan-Openbox installation image.
But why has the obmenu-generator vanished from upstream (ascii-ceres-didn't check on experimental)?
Is it because a newer version has dependencies that are no longer there?
It is an essential part of vuu-do/miyo which gets messed up in ascii/ceres