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Re: AVxCAT 2.1.1.2
« Reply #30 on: July 24, 2025, 04:57:36 am »
Hi Remy

The online update process now worked. It download the files and I updated the program.
Thanks.
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Re: AVxCAT 2.1.1.2
« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2025, 04:26:55 pm »
Hi!

Major update on the prereqs tool now initial beta.

# Prereqs installer
 
V0.1 beta build
    - Enabled install process
    - Zip file can include @unixroot type entries or normal entries or wpi file !
    - Zip including @unixroot entries will be put under the corresponding unixroot path @unixroot\usr\... if unixroot if found and enabled
        or under @unixroot\usr\local\... if local unixroot is set on and used
        note: if local unixroot doesn't exist and you set it under prereqs, installation will be done under @unixroot\usr\local...
                 but currently, you HAVE to manually update you config.sys by adding @unixroot\usr\local\bin and \dll paths
    - Normal zip file needs destination path. By default config.sys programs default path is proposed and may be changed via the prompt 
    - Zip including a WPI file will be unzipped and wpi executed
    - wpi files should run opening warpin
    - exe (wpi executable) are run
    - rpm packages not tested yet due mostly installed through yum packages
    - yum generated list can be run and installed at end of other installed files during the same process or though yum log menu entry
    - bubble shows useful info to well use prereqs

Note: once Prereqs has installed all missing AVxCAT needed packages, AVxCAT first time run (or with no saved parameters) should find most important packages

https:  [remove this]  //remydodin.levillage.org/doc/realisations/downloads/prereqs_01b.zip
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« Last Edit: July 30, 2025, 12:00:51 pm by Remy »

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Re: AVxCAT 2.1.1.2
« Reply #32 on: July 30, 2025, 11:59:50 am »
prereqs installer updated (beta 1.0 now)

v10. beta
        - Corrected calling Warpin if zip package includes one wpi
        - enabled install log file for packaded processed by installation (no installer, unzip, warpin rc logged)
        - Corrected a few more bug (install ended before end of install ...)

https:  [remove this]  //remydodin.levillage.org/doc/realisations/downloads/prereqs_10b.zip
MD5: c5897d125729c82a6fdf7d4135b872da
« Last Edit: July 30, 2025, 01:02:22 pm by Remy »

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Re: AVxCAT 2.1.1.2
« Reply #33 on: August 03, 2025, 04:09:51 pm »
Hi Remy,

  I tried your prereqs installer... here is what I did and some observations:

 Installed AVxCAT 2.2.2.0 (over 2.1.1.2), got FP2 and copied, then ran the prereqs installer. It said I did not have ID3V2, Timidity, Ogginfo, and Leech. I did already have timidity, but the path was wrong on the parameters page, so changed to the correct path (C:\Programs\timidity). I choose to download and not install, ran it and everything downloaded (plus some other stuff). Installed all in the locations suggested by the structure of the downloaded zip files (\usr\local\bin and \usr\local\lib were already on my path) and ran the Leech WPI. Then re-ran the prereqs installer and this time it said I did not have ID3V2 and Ogginfo, but again the paths were wrong on the parameters page. Changed the paths and now everything is recognized under AVxCAT parameters, except priority.exe was colored yellow (why yellow?). Manually looked for priority.exe on my system and it was missing, so installed FM2UTILS from WPI. Now priority.exe is white on the parameters page. Re-ran the prereqs installer and now it said I did not have priority.exe (but do and it is recognized on the parameters page). Tried again and it still shows priority.exe is missing.

  Now it seems everything needed is set up so I started trying things. Noticed under 'View' on the toolbar, you can open a log window at the bottom and see what is going on under the hood. At the beginning it shows loading and testing various components. There were 2 it did not find: 'rxtnsion not loaded' and 'Voix not found'. I went to Hobbes and found Voix and installed, but could not find any 'rxtnsion'. At least now it finds Voix.

  Thanks for creating AVxCAT! It is amazingly comprehensive and so somewhat complex - will spend some more time trying it out.

Regards,

EDIT: The problem with priority.exe is that I did not reboot after installing FM2UTILS. Apparently, it adds the path to FM2UTILS to LIBPATH and AVxCAT uses that to find priority.exe.
« Last Edit: August 04, 2025, 12:03:19 am by David McKenna »

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Re: AVxCAT 2.1.1.2
« Reply #34 on: August 04, 2025, 10:23:59 am »
Hi David,

Thanks for you helpful comments.
AVxCAT V2.2.2.0 FP2 update if planned to be installed over AVxCAT V2.2.0.0 FP2 WPI
AVxCAT V2.1.1.2 get upate not enabled to get V2.2.2.0 FP2 (I'm going to enable update to V2.2.0.0 wpi)   

AVxCAT base WPI package includes some missing dlls you are looking for.

Priority is yellow because no more a requirement if under AOS and the color is a warning not red.
When priority.exe is missing I use default available codding

If you have installed dlls from under AVXCAT v2.2.0.0 WPI (you should have rxtnsion...) and you may missing some other elements, pdf due V2.2.0.0. is a main update.
Of course, you can run V2.2.0.0. FP2 WPI over current installation and then replace AVxCAT and Prereqs  from those into AVxCAT v2.2.2.0 FP2 (that's all) to get latest update. 


About incorrect path under AVxCAT, this is because the paths already set are saved into the ini file.
To check if all is found, you can rename the avxcat.ini file and start AVxCAT (a message will tell you to do setting), go into parameters and check found paths (it should be ok). To use your initial setting, copy back your original avxcat.ini file.

By default, AVxCAT doesn't use icon view, I suggest you to give a try which simplifies usage (for some specific or customised conversion settings, go back to normal view).

Starting from a fresh installation before any AVxCAT setting, all additional tools path should be found and juts 'save parameters' after verification, I'll suggest to set cdda2wav, web and tracks naming convention + set to use priority with suggested parameters which will be helpful for some king of conversion. 
About priority, prereqs.exe should find it if missing (but you can ignore it under AOS if you prefer and AVxCAT will use other priority codding) 

With the latest prereqs.exe 1.0 beta (only starting from this one), all install steps are done by prereqs.exe if you choice install instead of download only. The packages are identical and what prereqs does during the install:
- it goes through each downloaded packages
  - If zip -> it checks archived first level name and if @unixroot found (which means you already set an @unixroot under config.sys found during pre-scan by prereqs) symlink is used and @unixroot replaced with the found @unixroot drive letter. If local if found under @unixroot and/or user set, packages will have local as destination (if local is not part of paths and libpaths under the config.sys, it should be added manually yet)

    To use simlink for manually install packages: create a simlink (ln.exe), unzip package, remove (rm) the created simlink   

  - If zip but a wpi is included (e.g. timidity); prereqs unzip the archive and run the warpin
  - If the package is an exe file (supposed warpin executable). It is run
  - If the package is a wpi then warpin is run
  - For missing rpm packages available through yum (AOS), yum install can be run for all missing packages or it can be run later, the command line is been saved into the yum log file (or prereqs yum log entry)

Regards

Next upgrade is expected to update config.sys if 'local' doesn't exist and is user set under prereqs and I'm looking (may be later...) to make prereqs usable for other programs needing many additional tools (using external customized file to identify packages and links)


After run AVxCAT V2.2.2.0 FP2, you'll find a created avxcath.py (a basic python2 script usable to check hash code of files) used to check MD5 when downloading future updates though AVxCAT.
e.g. python if base python under AOS or python2.7 avxcath.py 0 file2test   (0 = MD5, 1 = SHA1, 2 = SHA256, 3 = SHA384, 4 = SHA512)
       
« Last Edit: August 04, 2025, 11:02:22 am by Remy »