ArcheOS 5 test during Open Techne UNESCO master

[Domenico Giusti]

Hi all,

I built yesterday the iso of ArcheOS 5 and I faced the same issue
fetching some repositories. I also solved with the indication of
Fabrizio. Thank you Fabrizio!

In my VirtualBox it works only with 3.2.0-4-486 kernel (Gnome3 cannot be
used and Gnome2 is loaded) and I have a critical error with 686-pae, but
it should be a VirtualBox issue. Maybe I have to provide my VirtualBox
with some extra extension.

I agree with Luca about QGIS and I'm thinking about GRASS 7.
The first beta release of a new version of GRASS GIS 7.0 has been
released on April 2...
http://grass.osgeo.org/news/32/130/GRASS-GIS-7-0-0-beta1/

Finally, an old question: the desktop environment. I used Gnome3 for a
lot, but during the last weekend, bored with it, I purged it and
installed Xfce4, old fashion but it works very well and it is fast and
light! Usually, installing Debian, you have the possibility to choose
you preferred DE. Why not in ArcheOS?

For the rest, ArcheOS is cool!

Thanks

On 04/14/2014 09:22 AM, Luca Bezzi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I took the occasion to test ArcheOS 5 during my lessons (2D
> photomapping) in the UNESCO master Open Techne. Here are some reports:
> 
> 1) to build the iso image I had to follow the indications Fabrizio wrote
> in this email:
> http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/archeos/2014-April/000557.html
> 
> 2) a mandatory software is missing:
> 
> Kate (but in archeos-meta is already in the archeos-office metapackage:
> https://github.com/archeos/archeos-meta/blob/master/debian/control);
> could it be that archeos-meta is not updated when is building the iso?
> 
> 3) some system utilities are missing (they are useful to do not scare
> too much new user about GNU/Linux system; I experimented it during the
> lessons)
> 
> Synaptic and an archiving tool able to read zip files (Ark? or something
> similar)
> Could we put these software (and eventually similar applications) into a
> metapackage (e.g. archeos-utilities or archeos-system-utilities)?
> 
> 4) a mandatory software is outdated: QGIS (actual version: 2.2, in
> ArcheOS 5 1.7). The problem is that for ArcheOS 4 we took QGIS from
> GFOSS repository, but that repository seems to be outdated, while QGIS
> has actual packages in its own repository:
> 
> deb     http://qgis.org/debian wheezy main
> deb-src http://qgis.org/debian wheezy main
> 
> We should update the repos, so that we can use directly QGIS 2.2, which
> has some very important new options (soon a videotutorial about it)
> 
> 5) Some QGIS plugin are necessary for specific archaeological workflow
> or to simplify some operations (e.g. CADTools, PyArchInit,
> QuickWKT, etc..). Can we manage the problem like we did for ArcheOS 4 (a
> specific package with all the extensions and a postcript)?
> I think it would be the best option
> 
> 6) It was possible to install OpenJUMP 1.3 from ArcheOS 4 repos both on
> 32 and 64 machines. It would be very fast to do a
> new package (not a clean source but anyway an indipendent architecture
> package) with OpenJUMP 1.6. Can we do something like this,
> while waiting to understand the correct specifications for java source
> packagig?
> 
> For the rest, regarding what I taught, ArcheOS 5 is almost ready.
> 
> Nice greetings to everybody.
> 
> 

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