Elive Forum - Misc Howtos

Can't run Trine, libglade-WARNING (no replies)

bohnor — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:06:18 -0700

I have the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle.
I want run Trine then come following Errors:

[nop ~/Spiele]$ chmod +x Trine.32.run
[nop ~/Spiele]$ ./Trine.32.run

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'orientation' for class 'GtkVBox'

(Trine.32.run:5506): libglade-WARNING ++: unknown property 'create_folders' for Class 'GtkFileChooserDialog'

./Trine.32.run: symbol lookup error: ./Trine.32.run: undefined symbol: gtk_pixbuf_new_from_stream

Have here anyone an answer?

Thanks Norbert

Download & save animated wallpapers from E-17-Stuff.org (2 replies)

harleyrider1958 — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:35:33 -0700

:wave:I am new to the Enlightenment Desktop and Debian in general. I came over from Gnome and Ultimate Edition 2.8. AT the risk of sounding clueless, I was wondering if some one could please tell me in simple terms how to download and install animated wallpapers from E-17-Stuff.org. Thank you all for your time and consideration.:wave:

Gadget Forecast setup (no replies)

anu — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:31:37 -0800

setings are saying use yahoo, but i found [www.weather.com] codes from url do a trick, they work

yahoo already uses something different, so no use

as example Kaunas, Lithuania: at
"[www.weather.com] /outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/LHXX0002?lswe=kaunas&from=searchbox_localwx"
i took from it "LHXX0002" and thats exactly what i needet ;]

How can I back up software I have dl'd off synaptic? (1 reply)

arts216 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:52:20 -0700

Does anyone know how I can back up the software I've downloaded with synaptic onto a disc for safe keeping?

Thank you :D

How to move ElPanel (GEM / 1.0) (no replies)

LoL — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:25:25 -0800

I've seen lots of people ask how to move the Elpanel

It's easy

Simply hold down the ALT-key and grab it with your mouse - You can then let go of the ALT-key and move it anywhere you like

There ... Easy, wasn't it? :)

(You can use this technique for a number of other things on the desktop too, if you find that the mouse doesn't work by itself - It doesn't work for everything, but it's worth trying, just in case)

Packages (installing software) (1 reply)

CHO — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:58:48 -0700

How i do install a .package in elive?

Como puedo instalar un .package en elive? la verdad es frustrante esto, nadie dice algo claro

gracias

Translate to Arabic (1 reply)

zak — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:33:55 -0700

Hello,

I've tried to use eltrans to test translation to Arabic, but I couldn't find Arabic as input it language, is there away that I can add it so I can start the translation>?

Thank you,

Auto Starting Programs (no replies)

werner — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:46:15 -0700

The hidden file .elxstrt contains the commands that start after you login. It could be compared to the dos autoexec.bat file. In the file manager, click "view" > "show hidden files" and you will see it. Right-click on it and open with your favorite editor. Any local program you wish to start (or remove) is here. If you wish to disable a program, type a # in front of it. The shell will ignore everything after this character.

To add a program, I'll use an example that I have used. I wanted a system meter program (xosview) to start automatically. The command is: xosview -load -page -disk -ints -geometry 100x100+683+414 &

The & at the end of the command is important. It tells the shell to put the command in the background. I save the file and presto! It starts with enlightenment with options that I prefer.

Note: xosview is NOT installed with the base system by default. It can be installed by clicking Elivepanel > Admin and System > Package Manager > search xosview and check for installation. Then click apply.

install from .iso no CD-ROM drive needed (no replies)

john_spiral — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:55:50 -0800

Hi,

I put together a HOWTO a few months ago but it was lost when the new forums were setup! ;-{

the key thing was to copy the elive .iso file to a designated partition via the below command:

cat cdrom.iso > /dev/hda4

in the above example the .iso file is copied directly to the first hard disks 5th
partition.

the command fdisk -l

should reveal the partitions on your system.

boot off a Gujin floppy/hardisk and select elive

that's how I got elive going on a small sony vaio laptop that doesn't have a cd-rom drive.

hope the above helps, I know it's brief.

John

view ip address/settings (1 reply)

TravMan63 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:27:13 -0800

since ifconfig isn't installed - or availible from repos (live mode anyway tonight)... what is the alternative command?

thanks

Howto use International English Keyboard (2 replies)

rabe — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:02:38 -0700

In Elive it is not possible to use US international keyboard out of the box.

But you can get it worked with an work around

First of all you need root access.

Start a terminal type su and root password

Than as root type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

This will start an application which will ask for several settings.

AFAIK you can leave the default options enabled until it ask for Use Framebuffer device interfaceYou should check this option.

Next it asks for Autodetect Keyboard Layout You should uncheck this option.

Next it ask for Keyboard Layout You should type

us_intl

Thats it. The rest of the settings can be kept as is.

After restarting the x-server you should be able to use the features of the international english keyboard.

You have to figure out how you can access all the keys you need, but there are a couple of good sites explaining how to type foreign keys with us intl keyboard.

For example u can type "and o to get and ö
or "and a to get ä or "and u to get ü.

With right alt + 5 you can get the € Euro Sign.

With 'and a you can get á (...)

Special Thanks to roxville from elive Irc Chat, he was the one who had figured out the way how this works. :X

Backporting Packages In Detail (no replies)

gplgeek — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:30:11 -0700

How to backport packages the safe(r) way. By FossZombie at gmail dot com.
This how-to is loosley based on alejolp.com's instalendo-pidgin documentation.
[www.alejolp.com]
Thank you alejolp for supporting the community.

Backporting is a process where one goes into testing or unstable repositories
and grabs a source package which is already configured for debian use but has
not have the benfeit of complete testing or may have flaws to work out or it
may just be a newer version that has not been pushed to stable. Generally speaking
packages that are in testing are stable enough to use on a desktop system.

You can try to install the binary streight up like:

$ apt-get -t testing install packagename

This will not always work because it this is build against the test repository and
some of the versions may be off on some files.

Let's assume that does not work, as it is not the cleanest way to get a package.
Let's set up a environment we can work in without clobbering anything.

$ apt-get -t stable install debootstrap

Then install a directory to become our "jail" for this package so we don't mess up our actual root.

# su
password:
$ cd /var
$ mkdir jailroots
$ chmod 700 jailroots
$ cd jailroots
$ mkdir jail1
$ debootstrap –arch i386 etch jail1 file:///media/cdrom

In this case we specify file:///media/cdrom the cdrom as a location to get the basic packages for etch.
This will save you a lot of time and bandwidth.

This folder will contain a minimalistic debian witch will trap everything you do so you don't clobber
your system until you exit out of it. To enter it let's chroot!

$ chroot /var/jailroots/jail1 /bin/su -

Now let's add a user whitch will be our builder

$ adduser builder
pasword: …

Exit the chroot and then login as builder instead of root:

chroot /var/jailroots/jail1 /bin/su - builder

Since the system inside the jail1 chroot is a minimal debian you may have to install many packages you
already have on your real system, this is why it's fast to have a debian CD rom or DVD avaliable.

From now on we assume ALL commands are to be executed in the jail1 chroot. This is where the magic happens.

Before we start it's necesary to have the stable testing and unstable repositories configured in our
apt sources.list like below (add other repos if you like, ie ones closer to you):

    deb [mirrors.kernel.org] stable main contrib non-free
    deb-src [mirrors.kernel.org] stable main contrib non-free

    deb [mirrors.kernel.org] testing main contrib non-free
    deb-src [mirrors.kernel.org] testing main contrib non-free

    deb [mirrors.kernel.org] unstable main contrib non-free
    deb-src [mirrors.kernel.org] unstable main contrib non-free
#   If you have a debian dvd at heand please uncomment the below line and make 
#   sure the path is correct.
#   You MUST mount the cdrom from outside the chroot if you use one because 
#   there will be no cdrom in the chroot's /dev
#	deb file:///media/cdrom stable main contrib

Please note that this is the sources.list in your chroot and not your system.
If you clobber your real sysetm it's your own damn fault =).

To avoid blowing up our system on the next upgrade we need to change how apt
behaves. in /etc/apt/apt.conf

APT
{
Cache-Limit “41943040?;
Default-Release “stable”;
};

This code will make sure the default repo used is "stable" instead of testing or unstable.
Now you are ready to update your sysetm:

apt-get update

The following step is to create a temporary directory within ours home folder, and to unpack
the source of the program we want to backport. Example:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir packagename-tmp
$ cd packagename-tmp/
$ apt-get -t testing source packagename
Getting list of packages... done
Checking dependancies... done
Need to get 10.9MB of archives.
Get:1 [mirrors.kernel.org] testing/main packagename-0.0.0 (dsc) [1234B]
Get:2 [mirrors.kernel.org] testing/main packagename-0.0.0 (tar) [10,8MB]
Get:3 [mirrors.kernel.org] testing/main packagename-0.0.0 (diff) [37,4kB]
Downloaded 10,9MB in 1s (10.9MB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting packagename in packagename-0.0.0
dpkg-source: unpacking packagename-0.0.0.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./packagename-0.0.0.diff.gz

WARNING: NEVER EVER USE $ apt-get -t testing build-dep packagename you will reget it!
There is a hack to figure out the depends.

$ apt-cache showsrc packagename | grep Build-Depends:

Once you have your list of depends you should use

#Note this is -t STABLE otherwise it wont build for your system.
apt-get -t stable install depends_listed_from_above_command

In any case if you are building something you will want to install these packages:

$ apt-get -t stable install autotools-dev debhelper devscripts dh-make
$ apt-get -t stable install build-essential fakeroot debian-keyring
#I'd also reccomend installing solitare on your base system to play while it's all compiling.

Now the fun part! Let's make some packages!

# go into source directory
$ cd packagename-0.0.0
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary

Look at it go! you are almost done!

$ cd …
$ ls *deb
packagename-0.0.0_i386.deb
packagename-dbg_0.0.0_i386.deb
packagename-data_0.0.0_all.deb
packagename-dev_0.0.0_all.deb

The -dbg package has symbols for gdb
The -dev package is to install extra libraries needed in the program.

Now we can exit the chroot, and as root in our base system we can install the backported package.

# dpkg -i packagename-0.0.0_i386.deb packagename-data_0.0.0_all.deb

Finally run your package:

# dpkg -r packagename

HOWTO: Getting more recent packages on Elive, such as OpenOffice 2.2 etc (6 replies)

jonah — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:33:15 -0700

ok i just learnt from the debian guys about their etch backport repo.

NOTE:

for some reason this forum is bracketing my links, so if there is a bracketed link just float over it or right click it to see the full address, you'll need to put this address with http and all that, not the brackets thing!.

So at your own risk (but i had no troubles at all) you can do the below to get a load of newer versions of apps and stuff. This is just an attempt at a guide for me, if anyone can update/add to it or improve it go for it:

1. open up synaptic package manager from terminal or elive menu.

2. goto settings/repositories and then add new repository.

3. keep the pull down as binary .deb

4. add the address url:

http://www.backports.org/debian/

5. put in distribution box: etch-backports

6. and in sections put: main contrib non-free

7. right now you can ok that and close synaptic. Then open up a terminal and put:

su wget -O -

http://backports.org/debian/archive.key

| apt-key add -

7. right now open up synaptic again and press reload. then go to settings/preferences (again still in synaptic) and then click the Distribution tab. then got to prefer versions from: and select debian backports option. ok that.

8. Then you can mark all upgrades and it'll install all sorts of updated stuff like openoffice, wine and anything else you use that it has a newer version of.

Hope this helps.

Jonah

ps hope i don't get into trouble, hope this doesnt cause any probs as it worked for me. i just wanted to help people, so if this is wrong or not allowed then please delete this post. thanks.

Howto thumbnail videos in thunar (no replies)

PrinceAMD — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:58:07 -0700

first open terminal as root
then
1, touch /usr/libexec/mplayer-thumbnailer
2, scite /usr/libexec/mplayer-thumbnailer
paste this in scite

#!/bin/bash
videofile=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/%20/ /g' | sed -e 's/%26/\&/g' | sed -e 's/%5B/\[/g' | sed -e 's/%5D/\]/g' | sed -e 's/%40/\@/g'  )

# If we only have a chunk, then file will return "data", so we must exit to prevent mplayer from hanging
[ "$(/usr/bin/file --brief "$videofile" | grep -e "^data$")" ] && exit

thumbfile="$2"
LENGTH=$(mplayer -nocache  -identify -vo null -ao null -frames 0 "$videofile"  | awk -F= '/ID_LENGTH/ {print $2}'| awk -F. '{print $1}')
RANDOM=$(date %+s)
START=$(((LENGTH / 100) * 15)) ; END=$(((LENGTH / 100) * 70)); LENGTH=$(($END - $START)) ; SHOT=$((($RANDOM % $LENGTH) + $START))
/usr/bin/mplayer -nojoystick -nolirc -nocache -noautosub -nosound -vf scale -vo jpeg:outdir=/tmp:quality=100 -ao null -ss "$SHOT" -frames 3 -zoom -xy 128 -slave "$videofile"
mv /tmp/00000002.jpg "$thumbfile" || rm -f /tmp/00000002.jpg 
rm -f /tmp/00000001.jpg /tmp/00000003.jpg 

then save.
3, chmod 755 /usr/libexec/mplayer-thumbnailer

4, touch /usr/share/thumbnailers/video-thumbs.desktop
5, scite /usr/share/thumbnailers/video-thumbs.desktop

paste this in scite

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=X-Thumbnailer
Name=VIDEO Thumbnailer
MimeType=video/x-ms-wmv;video/mpeg;video/x-msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-ms-asf;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-flash-video;video/x-matroska;video/mp4
X-Thumbnailer-Exec=/usr/libexec/mplayer-thumbnailer %i %o

then save.
6, chmod 644 /usr/share/thumbnailers/video-thumbs.desktop

7, /usr/lib/thunar/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1

THE END!!!

Youtube Howto (1 reply)

Thanatermesis — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:23:59 -0700

If you want to summit a video to Youtube, on Elive you have all the tools of ripping available by default, you can use this script for convert any video to the better youtube supported format:

mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=0:br=128:vol=0:mode=1:aq=0:padding=3 \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:vhq:vbitrate=1000 \
-vf scale=320:240 -noskip -mc 0 -o youtube.avi original.avi

Remastering Elive (scripts) (4 replies)

gplgeek — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:04:11 -0700

I'm about to test my scripts here but I was requested to post them first. Consider this alpha/draft. I have remastered my CDs before and these seem to be accurate to the naked eye but go ahead and test them. Anyone with a basic knowledge of linux should be able to get these working with lille modification.

I plan to later add in better variable paths and pass values when calling the script to override default values etc. Even planned to offer a GUI Elive Remaster at some point. *maybe somebody with edje know-how can help me out*

#This version is for testing only, please give me feedback on the forums or email gplgeek -@- gmail.com message subject: REMASTER so it goes into the right inbox.
#If everything works out here I will think of making a GUI for this stuff... I have not tested these exact steps myself how they are written but I have reamastered elive many times.
#Tell me what you think. Consider this a alpha test.


echo Another Set of Scripts and HOWTO: By PrinceAMD and GPLGeek

#RemasterElive.sh
# Firstly, I recommend you get a copy of 'Elive Gem 1.0', GET IT!!! (EliveCD.org)
# This script assumes you have Elive_1.0_Gem.iso in / you should change that to the path to your iso.
# USE AS ROOT!!!

echo Default ISO Name: Elive_1.0_Gem.iso
echo Default ISO Path: User's Home
ISOName="Elive_1.0_Gem.iso"
ISOPath="'/"

mkdir /mnt/iso

mkdir /mnt/squashfs

mkdir /mnt/edit

mount "$ISOPath""$ISOName" /mnt/iso -t iso9660 -o loop

mount -t squashfs -o loop /mnt/iso/base/base /mnt/squashfs

cp -a /mnt/squashfs/* /mnt/edit

cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/edit/etc/

cp /etc/hosts /mnt/edit/etc

chroot /mnt/edit

mount -t proc none /proc

mount -t sysfs none /sys

export HOME=/root

export LC_ALL=C

apt-get update
echo to remove packages
echo apt-get remove --purge package name
echo 
echo to upgrade and add packages  do
echo
echo apt-get upgrade
echo apt-get install package name

echo Do all your editing and when you are done,
echo type: sh makesquash.sh

#END

#makesquash.sh
mkdir /mnt/newiso
cp -a /mnt/iso/* /mnt/newiso
rm -r /mnt/newiso/base/base

#To make squashfs
mksquashfs /mnt/newiso/base/base /mnt/edit/

#END

#makeiso.sh
#Now to actually make the ISO you may need to edit your desired paths below, have fun.

mkisofs -r -V "$IMAGE_NAME" -cache-inodes -J -l -b /mnt/newiso/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c /mnt/newiso/isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o /mnt/Gem_redo.iso /mnt/hda3/newiso

#on second thought I should have made $path_variables and fed them in as parameters, will do that in second version.

Security Freak? Encrypt folders or /home ! (no replies)

gplgeek — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:47:34 -0700

Install needed crypto stuff

apt-get install cryptsetup libpam-mount

Create your partition as normal, for the example we use /dev/sdb4

gparted

If you don't restart your system you probably will get errors, though you may not. If you skip this step I will not try to support your problems/questions/comments.

(dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdb4, put random charactors over your partition if you really really want security by making it impossible to figure out what is and is not data)

Start creating the encryption mapping

cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb4

Now check the info on your new encrypted setup!

cryptsetup luksDump /dev/hda3

You should be using slot 0 for your key but you can store up to 8 keys there. (0-7)

Check mapper device.

ls /dev/mapper/
"control"

Now we unlock

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb4 MyFolder
"Enter LUKS passphrase: "
"key slot 0 unlocked."
"Command successful."

Partition your encrypted system.

mkfs.reiserfs -l home /dev/mapper/MyFolder

Mow mount your encrypted folder!

mount /dev/mapper/MyFolder /MySecretFolder/

To close it at any time

cryptsetup luksClose home

If you want to mount it as home do the following 2 things.

Add this to both /etc/pam.d/common-auth and
/etc/pam.d/common-session

@include common-pammount

Add this to /etc/pam.d/common-session

volume yourusernamehere crypt - /dev/sdb4 /home cipher=aes - -

To add users/keys

cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sdb4

To delete keys

cryptsetup luksDelKey /dev/sdb4 0

This information was ripped from a "secureme.sh" shell script originally released under the WTFPL licence. I was asked to help work on this shell script and thought that it might be nice to post it on the forums here. It is reported to work on debian etch 4.0 as well as Elive Gem and Ubuntu 7.04

If anyone tries it and has problems please append all avaliable information in the form of a reply.

How to...use a get-E.org background with Elive Gem (5 replies)

phoenix — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:02:35 -0700

Hi everybody,

You have downloaded a nice background for your *very nice* Elive Gem on [www1.get-e.org] but it doesn't work ?
Read this !

It's because Elive Gem uses to an old version of E17.

But, it's easy to solve that ! :)

The background file is a .edj file.

You decompil the file with this command :

edje_decc yourfile.edj

In the new folder, edit the .edc file.

Change the line

name:"e/desktop/background";

name:"desktop/background";

Then, launch the build.sh script with this commande :

sh build.sh

It creates a new .edj file, which will work in the E17 version of Elive Gem :D

How to - install 'other' themes (e16) (3 replies)

TravMan63 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:00:47 -0700

I had a few challenges (and not all resolved) - with installing a theme from freshmeat... (or other than repos - which I've had problems with some not finding sounds...)

I've only tested this on e16...

basically - it's like this:

download the tar/.tar.gz file of your choice

create (as root) - a folder for the theme in
usr/share/e16/themes

as root - extract the files into that folder

Enjoy!
TM

--
for the aqua theme - if you want to remove the apple icon and etc at the top (the ones on right show in full screen) -
go to
/usr/share/e16/themes/auqa/buttons/images
and rename the files apple.png and rightbutton.png