Experimental BunsenLabs Lithium repository has been set up

hhh · 2019-10-13 23:18:06

@dolly, it's the same as running Hydrogen on stretch, go for it.

@manyroads, I'm not sure if we'll also switch the repo from kelaino, but other than that everything will hopefully be fine. @John can give us more info.

johnraff · 2019-10-14 08:12:21

@manyroads the repo URI will change when Lithium goes "official" (kelaino is only for testing, and probably can't handle full-on load), but the packages will be the same.

manyroads · 2019-10-14 13:10:18

@johnraff @hhh

I'd very much like to be able to add whatever the new repo for BL Lithium will be to both antiX & MX rather than having to use a combined BL Lithium / Debian repo set. Will that be possible? I certainly do not mind that the release BL repo is different from the current experimental repo.

Full disclosure: My hope is that your plans are to maintain BL Lithium OB features in a distinct repo; thus allowing any who use other Debian base(s) the option to create fully functional BL Lithium Desktops on the myriad discrete Debian derivatives.

Whatever your plans are, know that many in the broader FOSS world greatly value & appreciate your efforts.

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johnraff · 2019-10-15 07:06:39

Nothing will change, essentially, from the current situation with BL Helium, except the version of Debian on which BL is based. BL packages are on our own repos, Debian packages are on Debian repos.

manyroads · 2019-10-15 15:03:59

That's great news @johnraff. I will plan on building both an MX Linux19 and antiX19 instruction set (how-to guide) for those who might like to use MX/antiX Debian based distros with BunsenLabs Lithium.

johnraff · 2019-10-16 05:28:01

There is now an Asia-based mirror of this repository available, which should give much faster downloads for people in this region. See the OP: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 524#p81524

manyroads · 2019-10-16 12:46:19

Again thank you @johnraff. I'll do some testing using the asia repo.

manyroads · 2019-10-16 19:00:15

I have everything running on MX19RC with the RC? (asia) version of BunsenLabs Lithium... it works wonderfully and everything seems stable.

Updated build instructions are here:

https://wp.me/P4apmc-oW

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Naik · 2019-10-18 08:12:45

Hey there!

I ran into a problem today:

Err:10 https://kelaino.bunsenlabs.org/~johnraff/debian lithium InRelease
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 8FFD2CE993071671 John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://kelaino.bunsenlabs.org/~johnraff/debian lithium InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 8FFD2CE993071671 John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>
W: Failed to fetch https://kelaino.bunsenlabs.org/~johnraff/debian/dists/lithium/InRelease  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 8FFD2CE993071671 John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I have tried to fix this by using:

naik@GerryTSSD[~]$ LANG=C sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FFD2CE993071671
[sudo] password for naik:         
Executing: /tmp/user/0/apt-key-gpghome.8IhtdXRCxl/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FFD2CE993071671
gpg: key 3ADA82C12153DCF1: "John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1

but it didn't help. Can you tell me what the Problem is?

EDIT: changed Language

Naik --greetz

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johnraff · 2019-10-18 08:53:37

Hi Naik, it looks as if my key has expired! I should have been paying closer attention, but thanks for catching it. This happened once before so it shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I'll have to look it up again.

Give me a little while...

qcgxr · 2019-10-18 10:51:13

Seems to be working again, thanks.

I simply ran:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FFD2CE993071671

johnraff · 2019-10-18 11:25:00

I extended the key expiry date by two years and uploaded to the gnu keyservers. It took an hour or so to take effect, but yes the above command now works to refresh your apt gpg key.

Sorry for the disturbance.

Naik · 2019-10-18 13:50:17

^ no problem! I' ll try to be patient...

johnraff · 2019-10-18 14:52:39

OP now updated with command to update gpg key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FFD2CE993071671

dolly · 2019-10-25 16:49:36

hhh wrote:

@dolly, it's the same as running Hydrogen on stretch, go for it.

Finally! Got myself a brand new ssd, and put in my home BL work laptop, a Thinkpad T520, ca 2012. The installation of Lithium worked as expected without any problems. Everything is looking really sweet so far, I think I will keep the default setup for a little while. With time I will personalize it of course, but it feels like I want to get to know Lihium a little bit closer before I change things and radicalize to my personal preferences.

And you know what, this weekend I have a lot of time to get to know it. It will be a glorious weekend!

bard · 2019-12-23 12:16:44

Hi all,
Just my 2-cent. Hope I'm in the right thread as it is my first post...

Installed on Raspbian Buster Lite (RPi 4 4Gb RAM). Added Openbox and a few utilities (LAMP, Synaptics,..).

Apart from a few obvious issues (no Intel hardware,... so I had to force the Meta package and one or two others), installed surprinsingly easily considering I'm not on x86 or AMD64 archs.
I actually downloaded the packages (the all-architecture ones) from the repository and installed them one by one.
Just have to be careful and make sure the dependencies are all there before installing a package (with dpkg -i). And find the arch-dependent packages (Debian or BL) according to the repository list. 2 or 3 hours work overall for a great result :-)

Rebooted, logged in and startx to go to GUI.
BL-Welcome script started as expected and no big issues there either. Still no arm64 version (but it's a Raspbian issue I guess). I could try to install it on Arch64 to see how it goes though.

For now, tweaked Conky and Tint2 a little (trying to figure out what config files are used and where they are... not always easy but hey, it's experimental, right?) and still fighting with bl-obmenu-generator... :-)

Very few issues so far (like nm-applet not managing Wifi connections but Wifi works - set in Raspi-config...) but not a big deal.

Overall, a painless install. I could only suggest (as quickly mentionned to @nobody) an "Arm" flavor (i.e meta package for all architectures) so that BunsenLabs becomes even more popular.

Next steps: install on Samsung Q35 and a 2006 Macbook. Will report when done.

Thanks to all the devs and keep up the great work guys.

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damo · 2019-12-23 14:09:27

bard wrote:

...
For now, tweaked Conky and Tint2 a little (trying to figure out what config files are used and where they are... not always easy but hey, it's experimental, right?)....

Still in the usual places (~/.config) - and they can be edited from the Preferences menu

bard · 2019-12-23 14:41:08

Hi damo,
Thanks for your quick answer.

For example, edited my .xbindkeysrc since the "Super+w" combination didn't work (changed "x-www-browser" command to "firefox" or "firefox-esr" but still didn't work...)
So still investigating this one...

damo · 2019-12-23 15:13:50

You might want to check out man xbindkeys. Some people have found they need to force reloading the config (see the guidance in the "NOTES" section).

rbh · 2019-12-23 16:48:10

bard wrote:

(trying to figure out what config files are used and where they are... not always easy but hey, it's experimental, right?) and still fighting with bl-obmenu-generator... :-)

Obmenu was default menu in Helium.

In Lithium it is jgmenu.

Maybe you should run

 $ bl-user-setup --refresh

to get all current user-configs?

I would not categorise lithium as experimental, more testing...

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