Hello,
I guess François Andriot would best answer this question.
I am experimenting with installing Linux on a Sony Vaio Tablet (Vaio Tap 11, model SVT112113CXB ). This has proven *much* more difficult than on a Microsoft Surface Pro 2:
- You can disable SecureBoot in the BIOS *but* it is still there! The first consequence is that I can't install Debian!
- Other Linux version more or less did install (Ubuntu 16.10, Alexandre's PCLOS, openSUSE) but I everytime has trouble.
In the end, the only install that (really) runs well is openSUSE Tumbleweed: really snappy under Gnome 3, onscreen keyboard, it even tries to use the accelerometer and rotates the screen (although in a somwhat eratic way)
Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the instruction for 42.3 work?
Now, a Tablet is not where I need TDE most, but...
Regards,
Thierry
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-11-26 21:53 (UTC+0100):
Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the instruction for 42.3 work?
I did it on one installation when 42.2 was latest Leap, but I don't remember what foibles may have been involved. IIRC, there was at least one lib problem that took minor heroics to solve, so while doable, it probably wasn't simple.
OTOH, TW still provides KDE3. I just did a brand new TW/KDE3 installation night before last on a 10 year old Dell Optiplex 320.
On Sunday 26 November 2017 22.28:43 Felix Miata wrote:
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-11-26 21:53 (UTC+0100):
Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the instruction for 42.3 work?
I did it on one installation when 42.2 was latest Leap, but I don't remember what foibles may have been involved. IIRC, there was at least one lib problem that took minor heroics to solve, so while doable, it probably wasn't simple.
OTOH, TW still provides KDE3. I just did a brand new TW/KDE3 installation night before last on a 10 year old Dell Optiplex 320.
I hadn't noticed that. That's probably one of the things I like SuSE for. I'll first test how this tablet works under Gnome 3, and then install KDE 3. It's konqueror filebrowser I miss most.
Thank you,
Thierry
Le 26/11/2017 à 21:53, Thierry de Coulon a écrit :
Hello,
I guess François Andriot would best answer this question.
[...] Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the instruction for 42.3 work?
Now, a Tablet is not where I need TDE most, but...
Regards,
Thierry
Hello, I'm not sure if packages for 42.3 will work on TW, but this is your best chance ... just try and tell us :-)
François
François Andriot composed on 2017-11-30 21:11 (UTC+0100):
Thierry de Coulon composed:
I guess François Andriot would best answer this question.
[...] Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the instruction for 42.3 work?
Now, a Tablet is not where I need TDE most, but...
I'm not sure if packages for 42.3 will work on TW, but this is your best chance ... just try and tell us :-)
I previously reported here I already did: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12012
It starts and runs even though it only mostly installs. The incompatibility list is short. That's why the post I made on the -devel list where I asked about >= instead of =, which you replied to a few hours ago privately. Leap only offers libIlmImf-Imf_2_1-21 while TW only offers libIlmImf-Imf_2_2-22. http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::15508
Leap is not available to 32bit users, which is what forced many openSUSE users to switch to TW, in turn creating the interest in TDE for TW.
Le 01/12/2017 à 04:06, Felix Miata a écrit :
I previously reported here I already did: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12012
It starts and runs even though it only mostly installs. The incompatibility list is short. That's why the post I made on the -devel list where I asked about >= instead of =, which you replied to a few hours ago privately. Leap only offers libIlmImf-Imf_2_1-21 while TW only offers libIlmImf-Imf_2_2-22. http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::15508
Leap is not available to 32bit users, which is what forced many openSUSE users to switch to TW, in turn creating the interest in TDE for TW.
Hello, I've just built packages for current opensuse TW, both i586 and x86_64. There are some applications missing (e.g. koffice) due to currently unsupported libraries provided by the distribution. Most problems come from poppler version 0.62 which is not (yet) supported in TDE.
RPM Packages will appear soon at following URL: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/rpm/osstw/
Installation instructions are the same as regular opensuse: you must configure the packman repository prior to installing TDE.
I hope this helps :-)
François
On Sunday 10 December 2017 18.41:55 François Andriot wrote:
Hello, I've just built packages for current opensuse TW, both i586 and x86_64. There are some applications missing (e.g. koffice) due to currently unsupported libraries provided by the distribution. Most problems come from poppler version 0.62 which is not (yet) supported in TDE.
RPM Packages will appear soon at following URL: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/rpm/osstw/
Installation instructions are the same as regular opensuse: you must configure the packman repository prior to installing TDE.
I hope this helps :-)
François
Thank you very much. It won't help on the Vaio I was testing because the machine died... But what I saw of Tumbleweed means I might try it on another machine.
Thierry
François Andriot composed on 2017-12-10 18:41 (UTC+0100):
Hello, I've just built packages for current opensuse TW, both i586 and x86_64. There are some applications missing (e.g. koffice) due to currently unsupported libraries provided by the distribution. Most problems come from poppler version 0.62 which is not (yet) supported in TDE.
RPM Packages will appear soon at following URL: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/rpm/osstw/
Installation instructions are the same as regular opensuse: you must configure the packman repository prior to installing TDE.
Is this now stable enough to update the Wiki? Is it too soon to remove directions for the releases no longer supported by openSUSE (13.1, 13.2, 42.1 & 42.2), while adding TW?
Is Packman still required for any popular or required functionality? The openSUSE devs frown on rpms dependent on Packman packages for essential functionality. Packman software is supposed to be optional. While TDE is technically optional, it's not optional in the same sense as most Packman software.
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