http://ctkarch.org/

2011-08-12

2011-08-12 linux testing nightmare:

CTKArch Live x64

I was hoping that this one might be sane, where ArchBang couldn't install anything without dependency issues. (I would later learn this seems to be a fundamental issue with arch, pacman and out-of-date iso releases)

The bootup screens need a lot of work. There are typos like "F2: Informations"
Boots right into a GUI, no login.
At first I thought it booted into a non-desktop environment, because I couldn't see a taskbar, menu, icons, window decorations or such.. but the taskbar is just hidden.
pretty nasty theme, needs to be updated
There's no simple way to adjust the mixer settings. My audio was muted by default.
- it should have a simple xterm -e alsamixer or some such.
Wow, it has [1] Tryad's [2] "Listen" as a sample song! Bonus points right there.
I had to use the menu to get to stuff, like the installer.
The same nice simple textmode installer.
taskbar is hidden, and I have no idea how to un-hide it.. there are no hints anywhere, but it's fbpanel, so:

fbpanel --configure&

tint2 is apparently also installed.. it should be removed if they're using fbpanel.

First bootup:

It boots directly into X.
Auto-login! Eww!
How in the hell am I supposed to change users? There's no option to log out or anything..

\su
\pacman -Syu

Force this one..
\pacman -S yajl
\pacman -S package-query

what the fuck, it requires yajl, which can be force-installed
but then it says package-query is needed, which requires yajl.. which apparently isn't "installed enough" somehow.
jumanji is installed, whatever it is, but its dependencies are not.

jumanji: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

what the fuck, firefox is 4.0.1?!
beep is enabled
numlock is off by default

Updating Arch Linux Packages

I downloaded Firefox from their website (not Arch), but it doesn't work..

./firefox
/mnt/data/firefox-64/run-mozilla.sh: line 141: /mnt/data/firefox-64/firefox-bin: No such file or directory

./firefox-bin
bash: ./firefox-bin: No such file or directory
ls -al ./firefox-bin
./firefox-bin

./run-mozilla.sh 

run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute .

[3] says there are requirements..

I have no fucking clue how to get it installed.. [4] .. says firefox 5 is in the repo..

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Repositories
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Repositories

1) Download a mirror list:

wget -O mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/

2) move it to overwrite the existing one (~where is that?)

3) Update pacman to use the new mirror list, get the new packages and update system software

pacman -Syyu

.. and NOW it says the proper upgrade line..

:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman  package-query

Now run it again:

pacman -Syyu

.. it asked me about replacing a bunch of newer stuff my distro has, which I don't mind doing.. but afterwards i got:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: aufs2: requires kernel26>=2.6.37.3
:: aufs2: requires kernel26<2.6.38
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26>=2.6.37
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26<2.6.38

What kind of amateur night bullshit is this?

.. so I did pacman -Syyu again, but without replacing anything, and was careful about conflicts:

looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libsasl and cyrus-sasl-plugins are in conflict. Remove cyrus-sasl-plugins? [y/N] y
:: krb5 and heimdal are in conflict. Remove heimdal? [y/N] y

.. and it seems to be updating everything and working well. I wonder, was something similar causing my issues with Arch and Archbang?

.. nope, didn't work:

(335/335) checking package integrity                      [------------------------------] 100%
(335/335) checking for file conflicts                     [------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/__init__.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/backend.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/logfile.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wpath.pyo exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

.. ok fine, let's delete them..

\rm --force \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/__init__.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/backend.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/logfile.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wpath.pyo

.. and let's try again now

pacman -Syyu

All of those pacman messages should be logged, and the user should be reminded of them after it's all compelte. For example:

initscripts                           [------------------------------] 100%
warning: /etc/inittab installed as /etc/inittab.pacnew
warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew
Blacklisting of modules is no longer supported in rc.conf,
please add blacklist entries to /etc/modprobe.d/ instead.
VERBOSE= in rc.conf no longer has any effect.
Please append 'quiet' to your kernel command line.

.. yay, it worked. Now this works too! :

pacman -S firefox

Getting Wine Working

pacman -S \
  wine \
    wine_gecko \
  winetricks \
    zenity \
  ` # `

This wine package is wow64 enabled. This means it can run 32bit/64bit Windows apps on x86_64.
If you are on x86_64, the default WINEARCH will be win64.
This will cause a lot of Windows applications to malfunction even if they usually work in wine.
Please create your ~/.wine with 'WINEARCH=win32 winecfg' if you are unsure and on x86_64.
See the Arch wiki on wine for more information.

Getting gecko installed without the wine_gecko package is done like so:

wineboot -u

click cancel when prompted to install gecko
winetricks -q gecko

WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

I had issues with write permission, so I did a chmod 777 various directories (even though I was root!)

Launcher.exe complained about the skin archive being damaged.. no clue

Wow.exe is bugged, crashes..

pacman -S

then run winetricks

pacman -S lib32-ati-dri

AUR has the proprietary lib32-catalyst-utils (but I don't know how to use AUR yet)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474289

.. I don't have internet access in wow, even though it seems to be working well. Argh.

sudo is replaced with xsu, I hear.