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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

Don't use 13.04.


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK it looks like its broken. Gala (and loads of other vital packages) seem
> to be showing failed builds for armhf on Launchpad: Build status
>
> [image: [MANUALDEPWAIT]] Dependency wait on wani06 (arm ppa builder)<https://launchpad.net/builders/wani06>
>
>    - Missing build dependencies: *libplank-dev*
>    - Started on 2012-12-26
>    - Finished on 2012-12-26 (took 2 minutes, 34.0 seconds)
>
>
> I'm assuming this is why I can't install it...
>
>
> On 3 January 2013 23:32, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>> is only available from another source
>>
>> Package maya 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 midori-granite 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
>> However the following packages replace it:
>>   elementary-default-settings
>>
>> Package noise 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 pantheon-files 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 pantheon-terminal 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 scratch-text-editor 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
>>
>> 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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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
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