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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

Nice.
The Ubuntu wiki said different :P
Alright it's late now - i'll use 12.10 tomorrow xD


On 4 January 2013 00:13, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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