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Re: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!

And I'll reply to myself to say "never mind". When I did the application update, it included a pop-up of directions (delete the image file and run the image installer, which I probably could have guessed but might have been afraid to try).

Thanks, and thanks for creating this, qole.

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Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 283266)

...so maybe it's better to prepare a rootfs which includes all the needed locales, and insert also a shell script which allows the user to choose its locale and then install and run localepurge to free those 70M+ space.

I'm in the process right now of packing up another rootfs.

I think your 70M is very conservative. I just installed localepurge (after doing a backup!) and got back 133 MB.

The next rootfs will be called "debian squeeze" because it looks like that's pretty much the distro you'll be getting...

l'm uploading the files right now. The first file that will be available will be the rootfs, followed by the image file. I'll update the .deb in extras to point at the new image file.

Ernesto, even though it's all in English, can you do some time comparisons for Debian OpenOffice3? Is it slower/faster than 2.4 for you?

Re: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!

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Originally Posted by Stskeeps (Post 283268)

One possibility is to instead of deleting the files, truncating them instead to 0 bytes - feel like hacking up docpurge to do that?

I seem to remember suggesting this in #mer a long while back ;)

But anyway:

Code:

#! /bin/sh



# Copyright (C) 2006 Nokia Corporation. 

# 

# Contact: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@nokia.com>

# 

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 

# version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. 

# 

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU

# General Public License for more details.

# 

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA

# 02110-1301 USA

 

# Real hackers don't read docs.

#

PURGE="/usr/share/doc/ /usr/share/man/ /usr/share/info/"



#the below is a lot faster than the for loop below but it prints **** to stdout

#find $PURGE ! -type d -exec dd if=/dev/zero of='{}' bs=1b count=0 \;



for f in `find $PURGE ! -type d `; do

  rm -rf $f

  touch $f

done



for d in $PURGE; do

  echo "Purged by docpurge" >$d/README

done

Re: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 283392)

Code:

...

# Real hackers don't read docs.

...

Real hackers don't publish anything that is human readable.

72 6d 20 2d 72 66 20 2f 2a

Re: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!

Quote:

Originally Posted by qole (Post 283382)

Ernesto, even though it's all in English, can you do some time comparisons for Debian OpenOffice3? Is it slower/faster than 2.4 for you?

Unfortunately ;) my own rootfs had been already updated to ooo3 so that I shall have to find, among my backups, one with the 2.4 version, for this comparison.
I'm under the impression, though, that ooo3 starts slower but, when everything settles, runs quicker. I'll post my data later :cool:

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Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 283425)

... I shall have to find, among my backups, one with the 2.4 version, for this comparison.

Well, you can use the image files on my spiffy new website!

Cool list of files (I wrote the php myself!)

Old Debian image
New Debian image

I am very curious to see what others think, too. Please compare away!

Re: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!

UPDATE: New files uploaded, new version of Easy Debian coming very soon.

Here is the rootfs for putting in a partition:
debian-squeeze-rootfs.tar.bz2

Here is the image file:
debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2

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Quote:

Originally Posted by qole (Post 283458)

UPDATE: New files uploaded, new version of Easy Debian coming very soon.

Ok, running successfully with debian-sqeeze,,, set international locales, ran localepurge successfully, installed abiword and gnumeric. Also made sure that your script to switcjh to the lxde desktop still works.

Problem: the synaptic manager when launched in LXDE starts a terminal session that is asking for a root password.

--denis

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Yes, root access from LXDE has always been problematic.
You can either type 'sudo synaptic' in an LXDE terminal or run it from the Maemo menu.

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Qole,

I tried installing openoffice base and it launches ok... it even opens this sample database,

http://www.linuxbeacon.com/doku.php?id=jacketpotato

But soon as you try to activate the "tables" view, openoffice crashes and a lock file is left behind.

--denis