[SOLVED] Replicating BL in Arch

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-25 01:33:59

EDIT 9-3-17 - We have had a few releases and our first webpage is ready to go:
ARCHLabs Webpage

Downloads can be accessed from there.

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Hey BL Devs

Recently a couple of guys and myself included at the Google+ Eye Candy Linux community have installed and set up Openbox. All of us have relied really heavily on the work you have all done to bring BL to life.

All of us G+ are Arch users and we want to replicate what you have produced but on Arch.

First off, can we use the the artwork you have and modify it to suit our look (e.g add the odd Arch logo etc)

Second, can you use the scripts etc created for BL?

There will be no problems if the reply is no.

Cheers
Matt (and some other G+ guys).

-Mod edit- Moved the website link to the top so users can cut to the chase if they want. hhh

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Sector11 · 2017-01-25 02:01:48

To the best of my knowledge: YES!

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-25 02:13:20

Epic!

To work I go. Expect many, many, many, many questions.

Hopefully everyone gets my reference

Sector11 · 2017-01-25 02:28:29

hahahaha scripts are free, questions are extra.

AND NO PODIUMS! ]:D

You want to become one with the distro. Feel the distro, caress the distro until it's a living, breathing, vibrating extension of yourself.

Misquote of Eugene Tackleberry

damo · 2017-01-25 02:40:35

The work is licensed under GNU GPL 3, https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-im … er/LICENSE, and copyright details should be in the headers of the scripts.

Let's see how you run with it

Sector11 · 2017-01-25 02:46:18

Cool an ARCHLab

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-25 02:48:08

@ S11 - I can't promise there won't be at least one podium.

I think I may already be at one with my main Distro....not too sure.

@ damo - Hopefully this isn't going to be as difficult as I expect it to be.

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-25 03:18:18

Sector11 wrote:

Cool an ARCHLab

That sounds like a freaking cool name.

If anyone wants to help or offer advice I have created a private G+ community to record all our musings, bullshite and progress.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities … 2908495908

ARCHLabs.........oh I like that.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-01-25 07:19:02

It would be possible to install the entire system using a single PKGBUILD, example here:

https://github.com/Earnestly/pkgbuilds/ … g/PKGBUILD

Good luck!

imp2021 · 2017-01-25 07:26:01

Erm, there is this oher distro I am toying with on a dualbootsystem.
Mainly to try new things by also avoiding troubles with breaking my system with backports.
Mabox is a spin of from Manjaro using Openbox as default WM. Checkout my embarresment/overexcitement on https://forum.manjaro.org/t/maboxlinux- … penbox-wm/.

However, it has things I like and wich I don't.
The creation of that thing is also highly influenced by bl/#!.

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-25 07:49:56

@H_o_a_s: That looks interesting, thanks mate. When my skills are up to par I'll look into that.

@ohnonot: Thanks mate, I found those. The pipemenu one doesn't want to install issues with lua-posix but other than that it's all turning out great.

@imp2021: thanks for the link. I'll look into it.

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-25 08:17:50

Can anyone tell me if lua-posix is crucial to getting recent places working in the menu?

Reason I ask, when I try to build the BL pipemenus from the AUR lua-posix-git is shown as a makedepend. This continuously fails to build. Every other pipemenu works other than this one as the script is a lua script.

Am I right or miles off?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-01-26 07:30:24

^ Try changing lua-posix-git to lua-posix in the depends line, can you build that version?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lua-posix/

I did try to replicate this on my Arch box last night but it seems that my Arch system is completely FUBAR and won't even run a compiler... 8.(

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-26 08:27:57

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I did try to replicate this on my Arch box last night but it seems that my Arch system is completely FUBAR and won't even run a compiler... 8.(

The joys of Arch

Thanks HoaS. I found an old #! script that the #!++ boys used which worked perfectly for me. I have done away with the lua option.

martix · 2017-01-26 10:01:03

There is Arch+Openbox+Conky=Archbang. This distro is pretty popular, had a release last year. It seems you are about to create something similar. Is it about the looks to be more BL-like? Anyhow good luck with the project!

Döbbie03 · 2017-01-26 17:16:01

@martix - from my perspective it's replicating the look plus a few other things like the pipemenus that contain the install menus etc.

Personally I think BL is the best distro for Openbox users.

ohnonot · 2017-01-27 07:32:48

martix wrote:

There is Arch+Openbox+Conky=Archbang. This distro is pretty popular, had a release last year.

ah, thanks for the update, i thought they'd given up on it.
fyi, archbang is an archlinux installer. it somewhat automates what one would usually do manually on archlinux, but it only uses archlinux repos (*) (unlike e.g. manjaro).
one of my computers started out as archbang, the other as archlinux, and i cannot tell the difference anymore; they both ended up as openbox boxes ;-)

(*)
at least that's how it was, i hope they haven't changed that.

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Döbbie03 · 2017-01-27 08:08:56

For the Arch users here, would anyone know how to replace the apt part of the pipemenu install with pacman?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-01-27 08:12:36

^ I'm not sure what you mean, perhaps post the Debian version here?

Also, have you seen https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta?

damo · 2017-01-27 08:43:30

Dobbie03 wrote:

For the Arch users here, would anyone know how to replace the apt part of the pipemenu install with pacman?

Check out the bunsen-common files. @johnraff has set BL up to source various functions and scripts, which can be accessed by any script or pipemenu. I think you specifically need to edit bl-include.cfg - apt-get functions etc.

bl-install wrote:

# bl-install a wrapper round the promptInstall() function in bl-include.cfg
# It may be called by other scripts or menus
# to install Debian packages in a terminal window.

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