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Finch & btop

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• Started 1 year ago by sofia-m
• Latest reply from Ceel
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   sofia-m
   

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   Hello,

   Has anyone made slitaz packages for finch and btop?

   Thanks.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hello,

   From what I've read on the pidgin site finch is included in Pidgin; pidgin-2.14.8 is available on the mirror.

   I'll have a look at btop.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   No chance for btop, needs GCC 10 or higher to be compiled.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   sofia-m
   

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   Hello! @Ceel

   I tried a little experiment converting finch . DEB to .TAZPKG.
   As far as I could see, finch is based on libpurple, but a separated package from pidgin.
   It also seems to require some different libraries.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   sofia-m
   

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   @Ceel

   EDIT!!!!!

   I was wrong, misled by Debian policy to splitting packages LOL. Finch is indeed part of Pidgin in Slitaz.
   I had to add a couple libraries and gstreamer-1.0 for it to work, but id does.

   Thanks a lot for the fast reply and pointer.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hi sofia-m,

   A lot of options are disabled in the pidgin receipt.
   Can you tell me what packages you had to install to have finch working. I'm trying to build a package with just finch; it would be better I include them in the depends ;-)

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   sofia-m
   

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   Hello @Ceel,

   I haven't had time to play with finch enough to say if anything is missing.
   I don't know why I mentioned gstreamer-1.0 as a finch dependency (better said, I know, it was required when I was trying to install finch deb pkg LOL).
   To make finch work in my no-xorg slitaz box, I just had to install libgnt (2.14.3).
   Since I'm trying to keep the install small (school project) and there is no x-server,
   I removed gtk+ too and just copied libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.32 and its symlinks to /usr/lib to keep finch happy.
   A finch package would be cool!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   alanyih
   

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   No chance for btop, needs GCC 10 or higher to be compiled.

   tux@slitaz:~$ file /tmp/btop/bin/btop
   /tmp/btop/bin/btop: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped

   btop-i486-linux-musl.tbz 1.03 MB 16 days ago
   https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/releases/download/v1.2.13/btop-i486-linux-musl.tbz

   btop-i686-linux-musl.tbz 1.02 MB 16 days ago
   https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/releases/download/v1.2.13/btop-i686-linux-musl.tbz

   
   Installation

   Binaries for Linux are statically compiled with musl and works on kernel 2.6.39 and newer

   Download btop-(VERSION)-(ARCH)-(PLATFORM).tbz from latest release and unpack to a new folder

   Notice! Use x86_64 for 64-bit x86 systems, i486 and i686 are 32-bit!

   Install (from created folder)

   Run install.sh or:
   [..]

   https://github.com/aristocratos/btop#installation

   Ref:
   https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-x86_64-asus-m3400qa/page/2#post-50370

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   sofia-m
   

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   @alanyih

   Absolutely awesome!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    @ sofia-m

    finch-2.14.10.tazpkg; I tested it rapidly, seems to be OK.
    You should win some MB: 2.6MB unpacked instead of 6.6MB for pidgin and much less dependences.
    Remove pidgin and all its dependences before installing finch.

    @ alanyih,

    Right, my first idea was to compile btop from source and went directly at the Compilation Linux section. Thanks for the hint.
    Just for fun, btop-i686-1.2.13.tazpkg built from the .tbz file.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    sofia-m
    

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    @Ceel

    Thanks a lot. Every bit counts. :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    sofia-m,

    Each bit counts

    Maybe you should have a try at dvtm. It has not as possibilities as tmux but it's lighter. Depends the utility you need.

    @ Bellard,

    I saw btop and finch have been added in the repo.
    I don't remember if Rolling run on i486 but in this cas it would be better to build the package from the btop-i486-linux-musl.tbz file instead of btop-i686-linux-musl.tbz, wouldn't it?

    Shouldn't we modify the pidgin receipt?
    As finch is a part of pidgin we can
    suppress the corresponding files and add finch in $DEPENDS and
    suppress PROVIDE="purple" because already in the finch receipt.

    By the way the pidgin receipt uses the --disable-idn option is used in configure but libidn is in $DEPENDS, is it right?

    Posted 1 year ago #

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