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#1 Freedom Hacks » [SOLVED] HOWTO make pysolfc work in Daedalus » 2023-08-15 18:52:56
- DaveT
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Pysolfc in the Debian and Devuan repos is so old it needs the file /usr/lib/python3.9/formatter.py
The version of Python in Debian 12 and Devuan Daedalus is 3.11 and formatter.py no longer exists.
Obviously I did a dist-upgrade from Chimaera so I had Pysolfc installed already, it just refused to run!
Linux Mint provided the answer.
Download Python 3.9.17 - or whatever the latest version of 3.9 is when you need to do this.
Use xarchiver or similar to extract ONLY Python-3.9.17/Lib/formatter.py
I created /home/my-username/temptemp and worked from there.
Now copy formatter.py into /usr/lib/python3.11.
And it works!
The real problem is that the debian maintainer of Pysolfc can't be bothered to update the 4 year old version of Pysolfc to the latest v2.20.1 released in April 2023.
Note that Pysolfc is in debian 11, removed from the latest debian 12, but is back in debian sid!
But still the same old v2.6 that still won't work.
A brave soul raised a bug in debian but nothing has been done about it.
#2 Re: Installation » Installing Devuan on a 2007(!) iMac » 2019-09-22 16:42:15
I run devuan ASCII on a 2006 iMac 6,1. The install is _very_ tedious.
Debian Wheezy is the most recent installer that will boot. Anything later leaves you with a black screen and you can't even persuade the install disc to boot.
Install the most basic debian wheezy possible - about 160 packages. No X no desktop no nothing.
dist-upgrade to stretch, clean up unneeded packages etc.
Then follow the instructions for changing from Debian Stretch to Devuan ASCII.
Then install X and whatever desktop and stuff you want.
I use LILO as the boot loader because I don't need any of the features of grub.
Have a read of https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/inte … ure.48596/ which documents my attempt to get FreeBSD installed and a bit more as well. I did it as a resource for anybody trying to get linux or bsd up and running an an old intel iMac.
The FreeBSD installer won't boot because it can't handle the 32bit EFI.
No derivatives of FreeBSD will boot for the same reason.
NetBSD and OpenBSD work well but no sound. There is a bug in the sound chip that linux fixed a decade or more ago but the BSDS never got around to it!
TinyCore linux boots.
Debian Wheezy boots.
Fedora 14 boots.
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