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swarfendor437

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From: Somewhere off Atlantis

Registered: 2020-10-28

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Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Devuan 4.0

Message reads:

Unable to load applications.
Please verify Internet connectivity.

Is this a sources.list issue?

I have REM'd out the line pointing to the CD as I have done with previous installs for Devuan 3.0 and 3.1.1

Last edited by swarfendor437 (2021-12-20 22:28:45)

swarfendor437

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Registered: 2020-10-28

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Discover just isn't working at all. When I enter the root password to edit the settings it falls over (cannot access settings). If I select 'Ignore' it states I should start Discover with the command:

kdesudo

which results in no such command.
Have repositories changed?

Currently I have:

Chimaera (main)
Chimaera security (main contrib non-free)
Chimaera updates (main contrib non-free)

I have unchecked the 'Sources'

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Can't comment on Discover and KDE, not my DE.

But what hits my eyes is that for Chimaera you just have enabled main. And for the others also contrib nonfree. Does not make sense. Either all in or all out.

rolfie

Last edited by rolfie (2022-03-01 22:05:55)

swarfendor437

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Registered: 2020-10-28

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Can't comment on Discover and KDE, not my DE.

But what hits my eyes is that for Chimaera you just have enabled main. And for the others also contrib nonfree. Does not make sense. Either all in or all out.

rolfie

That is all that is available to me - should I keep the 'sources' in? Guess it's because I have come from a different GNU/Linux prior to Devuan.

Thanks for your time and input.

alexkemp

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Registered: 2018-05-14

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

FWIW here is my sources.list:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan chimaera-proposed-updates main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main non-free contrib

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Can't comment on Discover and KDE, not my DE.

But what hits my eyes is that for Chimaera you just have enabled main. And for the others also contrib nonfree. Does not make sense. Either all in or all out.

rolfie

That is all that is available to me - should I keep the 'sources' in? Guess it's because I have come from a different GNU/Linux prior to Devuan.

Thanks for your time and input.

Looks like I wasn't clear enough. You wrote:

Chimaera (main)
Chimaera security (main contrib non-free)
Chimaera updates (main contrib non-free)

This is inconsistant. Your entries in the sources.list should read either full blown:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan chimaera-proposed-updates main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main non-free contrib

which I would suggest or

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main 
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main 
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main 
deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan chimaera-proposed-updates 
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main 

if you don't want non-free packages or packages with other licences on your computer. It simply has to be all the same through the lines. As long as you do not compile your own packages, you do not need the sources.

Further readings at: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

I hope I have made my point clear now.

rolfie

Last edited by rolfie (2022-03-03 08:54:24)

swarfendor437

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

My posting related to what shows in Discover | Settings, which is what I posted, not the sources list which does indeed give the full addresses as in your post. Perhaps I should have stated that in the first place. Thanks for your replies everyone.

Brusco

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Registered: 2022-05-09

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Devuan 4.0

Message reads:

Unable to load applications.
Please verify Internet connectivity.

Is this a sources.list issue?

I have REM'd out the line pointing to the CD as I have done with previous installs for Devuan 3.0 and 3.1.1

Same problem here.
I can update my system by using terminal and tiping "sudo apt update && sudo apt ugrade" or by using Synaptic, so the issue isn't from sources.
How can I fix Discover?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad english.

thierrybo

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Registered: 2017-11-11

Posts: 107  

Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

I'm afraid this will not work for a long time.

This can't be "fixed" because this is not really bug, sort of. The "appstream" package that provides yalm metadata for Discover has not been forked by Devuan. So actually it will search yalm metadata in Devuan repositories that do not have such yalm files as Debian have in https://appstream.debian.org/data/bookworm/main/ for example.

hunter0one

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Registered: 2021-12-31

Posts: 71  

Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

Can confirm the same issue now. I used to not like Discover or Plasma in general but they've grown on me, Discover reminds me of "Pamac" on Manjaro years ago.

Thierrybo, that is a great explanation. I guess its better to wait, at least we can just browse through the categories manually for now.

hunter0one

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Registered: 2021-12-31

Posts: 71  

Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

In Ceres (Unstable) which is on Plasma 5.27.2 now, Discover will no longer load categories with the following output:

fetch ratings! false
adding empty sources model QStandardItemModel(0x564b37dfbfc0)
no component found for "org.devuan.devuan"

Of course, this time I have only the apt backend. If I had the flatpak backend, apps from that should load.

Konna

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Registered: 2023-04-03

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Re: Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

I was able to fix this by manually putting the files in the right place. I followed the Debian instruction.

1. Get up-to-date data (e.g. from appstream.debian.org/data/: Navigate to the Debian suite you are 
running (e.g. "unstable")and download the icon tarballs and *.yml.gz files for the archive components 
(main, contrib, non-free) you want data for.)

2. Copy the *.yml.gz files to /var/cache/app-info/yaml (you may rename them, e.g. to 
"unstable-main_amd64.yml.gz") and extract the 64x64 icon tarball to 
/var/cache/app-info/icons/%{suite}-%{acomponent}/64x64, where "suite" is the archive suite the icons 
are from (e.g. "unstable") and "acomponent" is the archive component (e.g. "main").

3. Run appstreamcli refresh-cache --force (needed for SCs which use the Xapian cache for fulltext search)

After you done that, you can run appstreamcli status command to see if it regognizes the yaml files. After that Discover finally works.

So with my limited understanding, the devs only needs to start to provide the metadata and icons for Appstream like Debian does. So no forking needed. Unless I'm missing something.

Last edited by Konna (2023-04-03 17:10:55)