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#1

System upgrading / Re: Gameover

Last post by gdstew - June 09, 2025, 01:16:40 AM

Thanks for the reply. I suspected that the workload along with other priorities was responsible. I have noticed over several years that the special editions usually took several days or more to be updated so it was clear that they were not high on the priority list. I really like the completeness of the gaming edition packages and I hope that it can get caught up to the others if/when you find some time.

[works fine and without any problem]

#2

Applications / Re: inxi -w (weather) does NOT...

Last post by AxL - June 08, 2025, 01:12:29 PM

  Finally, it has been fixed. And now, works fine and without any problem:







Thanks, anyway ....


Edit.- I forgot to comment that in this case, it wasn't a user issue.
It was a problem with OpenWeatherMap, which is the one who provides the weather data. And, for some unknown reason it did NOT work.








Cheers !! 

#3

System upgrading / Re: Gameover

Last post by pavroo - June 08, 2025, 09:44:56 AM

I hadn't time to update the Special Edition ISOs, but it rolling edition so you can update packages after installing it on a hard drive.

The next update of rolling iso is planned after Debian 13 stable popups, and then releasing Sparky 8.0 stable.

#4

System upgrading / Gameover

Last post by gdstew - June 08, 2025, 01:54:57 AM

Why are the special editions (I am in particular interested in GameOver) still at 2024.12 x86_64/amd64 while all the others have progressed to 2025.03 x86_64/amd64? Thanks.

[inxi -w]

#5

Applications / [SOLVED] -- inxi -w (weather) ...

Last post by AxL - June 05, 2025, 10:04:11 PM

For several days now, the option to see the weather with inxi -w (or also inxi -xxxw) simply does NOT work.


Graphic example:




Even using pinxi (the inxi development version) the exact same thing happens ...




Does the same thing happen, to any user who uses this option? 
Thanks !!






Cheers !! 

[AppImages]

#6

Sparky applications / Re: problem to install gimp

Last post by AxL - June 05, 2025, 06:16:52 PM

[....]
Exactly the same problem here [....]

That's why AppImages exist:

• GIMP – AppImages
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cheers !!
  
  

#7

Sparky applications / Re: problem to install gimp

Last post by pavroo - June 05, 2025, 09:47:52 AM

oohhh...
its about different versions of libs in multimedia repos and in debian repos.
the best way is closing multimedia repos, and downgrade some libs...
have to think about removing multimedia repos from isos, it makes to many problems.

#8

Sparky applications / Re: problem to install gimp

Last post by unit-rx55379 - June 05, 2025, 02:41:48 AM

Bump.

Exactly the same problem here:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:                                     
 libgegl-0.4-0 : Depends: libavformat59 (>= 7:5.0)                                 
 libswscale6 : Depends: libavutil57 (= 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1) but 10:5.1.3-dmo5 is to be installed                                                                         
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
--fix-broken doesn't do anything because there aren't actually any...

#9

Newbie questions / Screensavers in jgmenu

Last post by brogild - May 29, 2025, 12:31:48 PM

In the MinimaGUI version I've noticed that the settings menu is full of screensavers but these don't seem to link to any settings, they just start the screensaver. Fortunately the .desktop entries are all in one folder and so have been easy to remove and now my settings menu is easier to navigate.
 Is there any functionality associated with them being there that I might miss?

[mesa]

#10

Sparky applications / [Fixed] APTus AppCenter crashe...

Last post by kwg - May 25, 2025, 09:57:42 PM

After this week's mesa update, running (semi-)rolling SparkyLinux on a QEMU virtual machine, APTus AppCenter began to crash while loading. I fixed this problem simply by installing mesa-vulkan-drivers on the virtual machine and rebooting:

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sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers