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Updates / Re: more update errors - "dpkg was interrupted" and Opera repository

« Last post by stevef on Today at 06:41:44 AM »

Thank you, I'll try to tidy up the original topics.

Do you recall how the original "dpkg was interrupted" error was resolved ?

Certainly the Opera installation appears to be the problem.

Does the Opera browser currently work ?
Has this system ever updated ok since Opera was installed ?
What instructions were followed to install Opera ?

Can you open a terminal (Press Ctrl, Alt and T together and enter this command

Code: [Select]

inxi -rFollowed by enter.

Post the resulting output back into the topic along with the answers to the questions.

Updates / Re: more update errors - "dpkg was interrupted" and Opera repository

« Last post by jboscoe on Today at 05:51:21 AM »

it looks like according to the error log that the opera can not be found through the package manager of my lite version. From what i read it installed 410 of my updates out of the 419 updates it fetched but then brings up the error codes that appear to be about opera. THis is what i can understand of my update error logs and yes all three of them are from my one laptop. Thanks in advance from Joe a new uswer of Lite

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by sqwuade on Today at 04:07:37 AM »

I've made significant progress on the "Lite Tweaks" issue. My first two theories (.rules vs .pkla polkit-1 and Zenity 3.44 not being compatible) are out the window!

Here's something that at least allows the tweaks to work, although it introduced a new issue, because, once you apply this change, even though all of the Lite Tweaks now work, you will get stuck in an infinite loop, where you can't exit the main window, and have to kill the zenity process manually.

So here it is;

Open the file
/usr/bin/lite-tweaks
and on line 786 change the operator "-ne" to "-eq"

I.e. change:
if [ "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -ne "0" ]; then _clean_up; exit 0 ; fi # If Quit is clicked then exit

so it becomes:
if [ "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -eq "0" ]; then _clean_up; exit 0 ; fi # If Quit is clicked then exit

Then try and run Lite Tweaks again and it should work for you... That is until you try to close it! That's where it gets stuck in the infinite loop.

A lot of great info on this page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/bash

That's where I found the info on the different operators.

arg1 OP arg2
OP is one of -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, or -ge. These arithmetic binary operators return true if arg1 is equal to, not equal to, less than, less than or equal to, greater than, or greater than or equal to arg2, respectively. Arg1 and arg2 may be positive or negative integers.

Info on the PIPESTATUS arrays:
https://linuxsimply.com/bash-scripting-tutorial/process-and-signal-handling/exit-codes/pipestatus/

Cheers! Sqwuade

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by sqwuade on May 10, 2024, 11:58:37 AM »

I tried "sudo apt install openssh-server" first thing with a fresh install of LL7-RC1 and got "openssh-server is already the newest version (1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13). It's not working for me... I've installed and run ssh servers many times before. Usually I just run "apt install ssh" to install the server and "service ssh status" etc. to check on it. When I run "service ssh status" I get:

Job for ssh.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ssh.service" and "journalctl -xeu ssh.service" for details.

I even downloaded a fresh copy of the ISO to install from. It works fine in LL6.6, Xubuntu and Debian etc.

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by sqwuade on May 10, 2024, 10:26:09 AM »

I've been doing more research on the "Lite-Tweaks" issue and the problem could be related to the 3.44 version of zenity not having the "WebKit" option enabled/compiled into the binary any longer (LL6.6 had zenity 3.42.1, which was before the change).

Some info from the zenity Change log page:

3.44.0-2
Superseded in mantic-release on 2023-07-18
Deleted in mantic-proposed on 2023-07-20 (Reason: Moved to mantic)

zenity (3.44.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium

* Team upload
* d/control.in, d/rules: Disable WebKit integration (--html option).
This adds several "heavy" dependencies, notably WebKit itself, but
also video and spellchecking among others, which are undesired for
a simple interactive dialog.
The WebKit feature is disabled by default upstream, and several
major distributions (including at least the Fedora/Red Hat family,
Arch and openSUSE) don't enable it in their packaging, so portable
software cannot rely on this option being available. According to
codesearch.debian.net, none of the packages with a dependency on
zenity use the --html option.
The beginning of the Debian 13 cycle seems a good time to make this
sort of potentially disruptive change; most likely nobody will notice
this feature going away, but if we get bug reports, we can consider
other options such as having a zenity-minimal package without HTML
support, or having a zenity-full package with it.
(Closes: #777608, #942362)
* d/control.in: Remove version constraints in Build-Depends unnecessary
since bullseye (oldstable)
- libgtk-3-dev
- libnotify-dev
- meson

Source: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zenity/+changelog

As a test, try running this script in a terminal on LL7, then try it on LL6.6:

"echo "hello world" | zenity --text-info --html --filename=/dev/stdin"

I got that info here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141802

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by sqwuade on May 10, 2024, 10:16:51 AM »

I'll give it another try Trinidad. I did try it a couple times with LL7 in live mode and it wouldn't work. I've always just run "apt install ssh" and that would setup the server. I think the client is enabled out-of-the-box.

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by trinidad on May 10, 2024, 09:10:40 AM »

Quote

SSH doesn't appear to be working/installing correctly in LL7

Works fine for me, and it's openssh not ssh. LL comes with the openssh client installed already. You just have to add openssh server and sftp server.
TC

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by sqwuade on May 10, 2024, 07:19:09 AM »

SSH doesn't appear to be working/installing correctly in LL7. I've always installed in the past with "apt install ssh". I've confirmed it installs w/o issue that way with a live version of LL6.6 (UEFI) but I've tried several times with LL7 and it doesn't install correctly.
I also tested on a live version of the new Xubuntu (24.04) and it does install and work correctly with "apt install ssh" on that distro.

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by sqwuade on May 10, 2024, 02:00:27 AM »

That makes sense. I'll bet you're right and those "PERCENTAGE = (100 \* ${i} ) / ${TOTAL_LINES}" parts are to show progress bars leading up to 100%.

Release Announcements / Re: Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

« Last post by Şerban S. on May 09, 2024, 08:58:57 AM »

Quote from: sqwuade on May 09, 2024, 07:22:57 AM

[...] What if you make that change on a system where the Lite-Tweaks works, like 6.6?

It doesn't. That is the problem.
It didn't on LL 6.4, and it still doesn't.
Anyway, it seems that it only affects the way the progress of the current task is displayed in the message box that appears.
So, with or without this string formatting error, the script does what is supposed to do: removes something or whatever the current task is.
The only approach to Lite Tweaks is see if the error comes from the upstream packages. It seems that this is the case.

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