CTKArch

2011-07-23
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https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=CTKArch
https://ctkarch.org/

  • This distro is dormant. As of 2015-05-15 its earlier version did not have systemd, but I’m sure that if it woke back up it would.

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2011-08-12 – CTKArch Live x64 ∞

Part of my 2011-08-12 Linux testing nightmare

I was hoping that this one might be sane, where ArchBang couldn’t install anything without dependency issues. (I would later learn this seems to be a fundamental issue with arch, pacman and out-of-date iso releases)

  • The bootup screens need a lot of work. There are typos like F2: Informations
  • Boots right into a GUI, no login.
  • At first I thought it booted into a non-desktop environment, because I couldn’t see a taskbar, menu, icons, window decorations or such.. but the taskbar is just hidden.
  • pretty nasty theme, needs to be updated

  • There’s no simple way to adjust the mixer settings. My audio was muted by default.

    • It should have a simple xterm -e alsamixer or some such.
  • Wow, it has Tryad‘s Listen as a sample song! Bonus points right there.
  • I had to use the menu to get to stuff, like the installer.
  • The same nice simple textmode installer.

  • taskbar is hidden, and I have no idea how to un-hide it.. there are no hints anywhere, but it’s fbpanel, so:

\fbpanel  --configure&

  • tint2 is apparently also installed.. it should be removed if they’re using fbpanel.

First bootup:

  • It boots directly into X.
  • Auto-login! Eww!

  • How in the hell am I supposed to change users? There’s no option to log out or anything..

\su
\pacman -Syu
# Force this one..
\pacman -S yajl
\pacman -S package-query
  • what the fuck, it requires yajl, which can be force-installed
  • but then it says package-query is needed, which requires yajl.. which apparently isn’t “installed enough” somehow.

  • jumanji is installed, whatever it is, but its dependencies are not.

jumanji: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  • what the fuck, firefox is 4.0.1?!
  • beep is enabled

  • numlock is off by default

Updating Arch Linux Packages ∞

I downloaded Firefox from its website (not Arch), but it doesn’t work..

./firefox
/mnt/data/firefox-64/run-mozilla.sh: line 141: /mnt/data/firefox-64/firefox-bin: No such file or directory
./firefox-bin
bash: ./firefox-bin: No such file or directory
\ls  -al ./firefox-bin
./firefox-bin
./run-mozilla.sh
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute .

https://web.archive.org/web/20110811040430/http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html says there are requirements..

I have no fucking clue how to get it installed.. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/.. says firefox 5 is in the repo..

1) Download a mirror list:

\wget  -O mirrorlist https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/

2) move it to overwrite the existing one (~where is that?)

3) Update pacman to use the new mirror list, get the new packages and update system software

\pacman  -Syyu

.. and NOW it says the proper upgrade line..

:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman  package-query

Now run it again:

\pacman -Syyu

.. it asked me about replacing a bunch of newer stuff my distro has, which I don’t mind doing.. but afterwards i got:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: aufs2: requires kernel26>=2.6.37.3
:: aufs2: requires kernel26<2.6.38
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26>=2.6.37
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26<2.6.38

What kind of amateur night bullshit is this?

.. so I did pacman -Syyu again, but without replacing anything, and was careful about conflicts:

looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libsasl and cyrus-sasl-plugins are in conflict. Remove cyrus-sasl-plugins? [y/N] y
:: krb5 and heimdal are in conflict. Remove heimdal? [y/N] y

.. and it seems to be updating everything and working well. I wonder, was something similar causing my issues with Arch and Archbang?

.. nope, didn’t work:

(335/335) checking package integrity                      [------------------------------] 100%
(335/335) checking for file conflicts                     [------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/__init__.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/backend.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/logfile.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.pyo exists in filesystem
wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wpath.pyo exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

.. ok fine, let’s delete them..

\rm --force \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/__init__.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/backend.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/logfile.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.pyo \
  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wpath.pyo

.. and let’s try again now

\pacman  -Syyu

All of those pacman messages should be logged, and the user should be reminded of them after it’s all compelte. For example:

initscripts                           [------------------------------] 100%
warning: /etc/inittab installed as /etc/inittab.pacnew
warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew
Blacklisting of modules is no longer supported in rc.conf,
please add blacklist entries to /etc/modprobe.d/ instead.
VERBOSE= in rc.conf no longer has any effect.
Please append 'quiet' to your kernel command line.

.. yay, it worked. Now this works too! :

\pacman  -S firefox

Getting Wine Working ∞

pacman -S \
  wine \
    wine_gecko \
  winetricks \
    zenity \
  ` # `

This wine package is wow64 enabled. This means it can run 32bit/64bit Windows apps on x86_64.
If you are on x86_64, the default WINEARCH will be win64.
This will cause a lot of Windows applications to malfunction even if they usually work in wine.
Please create your ~/.wine with ‘WINEARCH=win32 winecfg’ if you are unsure and on x86_64.
See the Arch wiki on wine for more information.

Getting gecko installed without the wine_gecko package is done like so:

wineboot -u
# click cancel when prompted to install gecko
winetricks -q gecko

WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

I had issues with write permission, so I did a chmod 777 various directories (even though I was root!)

Launcher.exe complained about the skin archive being damaged.. no clue

Wow.exe is bugged, crashes..

\pacman  -S

then run winetricks

\pacman  -S lib32-ati-dri

AUR has the proprietary lib32-catalyst-utils (but I don’t know how to use AUR yet)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474289

.. I don’t have internet access in wow, even though it seems to be working well. Argh.

  • sudo is replaced with xsu, I hear.

2011-07-23 ∞

  • I found some really stupid challenges with package management, which explains the frustrations with ArchBang. I’ll probably go check out ArchBang again now..

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