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Re: ARM enablement nearly complete; testing needed

 

Yeh, I should I have said, I installed on 12.04.1


On 4 January 2013 00:16, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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