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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

sam@nexus7:~$ sudo apt-get install -f pantheon maya midori-granite plank
noise pantheon-files pantheonon-greeter pantheon-shell pantheon-terminal
scratch-text-editor slingshot-launcher wingpanel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package slingshot-launcher is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package wingpanel is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package plank is not available, but is referred to by another package.
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is only available from another source

Package maya is not available, but is referred to by another package.
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is only available from another source

Package midori-granite is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
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is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  elementary-default-settings

Package noise is not available, but is referred to by another package.
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is only available from another source

Package pantheon-files is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
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is only available from another source

Package pantheon-terminal is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
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is only available from another source

Package scratch-text-editor is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
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is only available from another source

E: Package 'maya' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'midori-granite' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'plank' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'noise' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'pantheon-files' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package pantheonon-greeter
E: Package 'pantheon-terminal' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'scratch-text-editor' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'slingshot-launcher' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'wingpanel' has no installation candidate



On 3 January 2013 20:49, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alright, it's downloading. You'll have to wait a little while for the
> video though - my internet is going at like 1Mbps.
>
>
> On 3 January 2013 19:49, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Only problem is - it seemed like a huge pain in the arse to get Ubuntu
>> working last time I checked. I'll give it a go though :)
>>  On 3 Jan 2013 19:45, "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Do it Sam!
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> El ene 3, 2013, a las 11:06 a.m., Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>>
>>> So this means elementary on my Nexus 7? I might try this and record a
>>> video
>>> On 3 Jan 2013 11:25, "Craig Errington" <craigerrington@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just installed the Pantheon group from the daily ppa on a Samsung
>>>> ARM Chromebook running an Ubuntu Build..
>>>>
>>>> Everything installed fine and is running great. The only issue is the
>>>> FBDEV xorg driver I'm using isn't rendering pantheon brilliantly. I'm going
>>>> to switch over to the amsoc driver later today to try it out instead.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 15 December 2012 00:38, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Great news! Posted it to reddit<https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg01889.html>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
>>>>> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The armhf enablement of Daily PPA is nearly complete now. The only
>>>>>> remaining items are failed builds of some Switchboard plugs which
>>>>>> should resolve themselves in an hour or two. In all other respects
>>>>>> armhf situation is 1:1 equal to the i386 and amd64 ones. And guess
>>>>>> what it means? Exactly - it's time to test this stuff!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you happen to be running Ubuntu's armhf port, please take a backup
>>>>>> of your system (just in case), add ppa:elementary-os/daily to your
>>>>>> software sources and install the "pantheon" package (or cherrypick
>>>>>> whatever dependencies of it you prefer). Then check out how apps work
>>>>>> (and if they work at all) and report your findings to this mailing
>>>>>> list!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't anticipate any major issues in applications because all Vala
>>>>>> code is translated to C+GLib code and thus is portable by definition.
>>>>>> Also, we're not yet in a position to consider any crashes appearing on
>>>>>> ARM architecture-specific :) I don't code in Vala myself so developers
>>>>>> may correct me on this point further in this thread.
>>>>>> Still, SoCs may have different performance bottlenecks than desktops
>>>>>> do, so please report anything that works unusually slowly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The situation with Pantheon Shell is more interesting. In theory, Gala
>>>>>> should run on OpenGL ES 2.0 (and OpenGL 1.3 too, which took me by
>>>>>> surprise). However, I'm not aware of anybody actually trying that. So
>>>>>> if you happen to have hardware 3D acceleration on your ARM device,
>>>>>> please test Gala and report your findings. Don't forget to include the
>>>>>> output of "es2_info" command!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, it would be nice to be able to retrace Apport crashes submitted
>>>>>> from armhf, so that developers can investigate and fix them. This
>>>>>> requires an armhf-capable machine to run the retracer on. If you have
>>>>>> any resources to spare on an armhf-capable server you run, or know how
>>>>>> to set up ARMv7 emulation on amd64, please contact me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kudos to Rico for making the armhf enablement happen!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>>>>>> OS architect @ elementary
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cody Garver
>>>>>
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