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Setup & Installation / Re: Unable to install ArcaOS
« on: May 27, 2017, 02:50:11 am »
Weird that PMWinx is not installed as it is a basic part of OS/2.
You will have to install Panorama or Snap, depending on whether Snap supports your video. They're both S:\CID\SERVER (assuming your DVD drive is S:). Read the READMEs for how to install and if you still can't get the correct resolution, report here for more help.
Assuming you have a working wifi driver installed, easiest is to add the wireless widget to the Arcabar by right clicking and choosing "Add new widget"

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Internet / Re: SeaMonkey-2.42b8 and Thunderbird 45.8.0
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:32:33 pm »
@André, it is the Thunderbird icon that is currently broken, a regression.
BTW, Mozilla has never supported OS/2 2.x due to compressing the executables to the max.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Removing ArcaOS installed cups packages?
« on: May 26, 2017, 07:16:17 am »
Yes, there is a hard dependency on yum/rpm. I share my @UNIXROOT between 4 bootable partitions and switching from the ArcaOS installed @UNIXROOT to the shared @UNIXROOT seems to work fine as long as the config.sys entries are synched, probably more important here due to using it to build Mozilla, which was the reason I bit the bullet and started using it.
Good luck with switching to your shared DLL directory, which I'd guess would work. I do wonder about things like fontconfig that look in @UNIXROOT/etc for its configuration.
 

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.5 Install issues
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:52:07 am »
Andi, I also downloaded the RPMs and unpacked them.  The DLLs that were missing were not in those packages. 

The fact that you don't have any problems implies that the missing DLLs are included in something you have installed but I haven't.  This is why I was asking for a zip with ALL the dependencies.   Assuming that some DLLs from other programs will be available is very bad practice - the only time that is workable is if those DLLs are an integral part of the OS - since they are not they should be supplied.

The RPMs probably pull in other RPMs. Unluckily it looks like you might have to download the source RPMs and unpack them to get the list. Could try looking at the RPM with a text editor, where close to the top will be a list of DLLs (not packages), eg for hunspell,
gcc1.dll hunspel0.dll hunspell-en-US intl8.dll libc066.dll libcx0.dll ncurses5.dll readln6.dll rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) stdcpp6.dll tinfo5.dll.
Simplest would be to have a test machine with RPM and install the RPMs and copy the needed DLLs etc to your LIBPATH.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Removing ArcaOS installed cups packages?
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:32:26 am »
If you go that route, make sure you copy the required DLLs such as libc0x to somewhere on your LIBPATH.
Actually easier to just edit your config.sys and leave the directories there so you can copy any other needed DLLs to somewhere on your LIBPATH.

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS5 Another personal Experience
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:27:50 am »
Panorama and SNAP should be under S:\CID\SERVER (assuming your DVD drive is S:), read the README's for the installation procedures, basically resetting your system to VGA and then running install.cmd or setup.cmd with the right parameters

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Internet / Re: SeaMonkey-2.42b8 and Thunderbird 45.8.0
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:15:37 am »
The build adds the icons to the exes and then make package runs lxlite on the DLLs and exes. When lxlite compresses the exe, hi-colour icons get corrupted. It's an lxlite bug.
Lxlite is needed now that we use wlink as the binaries are huge, xul.dll is 469212KBs as an example.

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Applications / Re: Visual FoxPro 3.0 on OS/2 Warp 4 and Arca OS
« on: May 25, 2017, 05:07:02 pm »
I've been running the betas for a couple of months. It's basically OS/2 and works the same once the environment is set up correctly, hard to do here when re-installing the OS weekly  :)

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Applications / Re: Visual FoxPro 3.0 on OS/2 Warp 4 and Arca OS
« on: May 25, 2017, 04:30:36 pm »
One drawback with Odin is it is only Win32, no 16 bit support. Generally 32 bit programs will run, if the API is there but some programs targeted at Win 3.x have a 16 bit installer. It is possible to change the installer to 32 bit but it has been a long time and I forget the steps.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.5 Install issues
« on: May 25, 2017, 04:22:22 pm »
Unzipped firefox into a new directory, downloaded all the listed RPMs (and as zips) and added the DLLs to the DLL directory.  Tried to start firefox and it popped up a note that a DLL was missing - that DLL was NOT in the listed requirements.  I then went digging and finally found it and added it to the DLL directory.  Tried to start firefox again and get a message about another missing DLL that is not in the listed requirements.

What is going on with these ports and why won't they provide a zip file with all the required DLLs?

The only version of firefox that just works is the one that Dave produced.

Unluckily, Bitwise no longer supports using zips to install the prerequisites for Firefox. Too hard?
I guess you can look in the rpms for their dependencies.
Unluckily it has become hard for me to produce a Firefox without most of these dependencies though I don't see any point in making hunspell a dependency, probably less language dictionaries available, not sure if personal dictionaries (right click and add to dictionary) survive the update.

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Just out of interest, should I be concerned that although yum appears to have installed all 21 git packages it said it would, it finished with an error:

Rpmdb checksum is invalid: dCDPT(pkg checksums) ?

No, it seems to be a permanent harmless error
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When I try to clone a repo from gitlab, I get:

error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork


I am not sure whether the two are related or whether I do need an ssh implementation installed separately.

Not sure about that error, might be simply out of low memory. Try rebooting, a good idea anyways as if a DLL is in use, it is unlocked and upgraded but the old one is still in memory.

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Applications / Re: Visual FoxPro 3.0 on OS/2 Warp 4 and Arca OS
« on: May 25, 2017, 06:14:22 am »
I'm wondering if anybody knows the legal ramifications of reverse engineering the OS/2 win32 support?  There are some APIs that Visual FoxPro 3.0 requires that cause it to not run on OS/2, though it would run on a full version of Windows 3.11 by Microsoft.


Do you mean WIN32s support? As far as I know, the API's are/were supplied by Microsoft in the WIN32s package. OS/2 supports up to  Win32s 1.25 and partially 1.30, which IIRC was the last one. The problem is that MS went out of their way to break WIN32s on OS/2 by force loading some DLLs in high memory where OS/2 couldn't access them
There is also ODIN, which is reverse engineered WIN32 support, partially based on WINE, which is also reverse engineered Windows support. Never heard of any legal problems with WINE, which I assume is a clean room implementation.

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Just install the latest git and it'll pull in everything else.
yum install git

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.5 Install issues
« on: May 25, 2017, 03:28:08 am »
install turbojpeg-1.5.1-1

Yet another DLL called JPEG.DLL? Or does this one replace one of the more usual JPEG v8 DLLs?

It's a simd accelerated JPEG library, so the newer the CPU, the more simd (SSE etc) instructions it'll use. It's been in Firefox since ver 4 and is still in my builds. Bitwise seems to like seeing how many dependencies they can make Firefox require.

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Internet / Re: SeaMonkey-2.42b8 and Thunderbird 45.8.0
« on: May 24, 2017, 04:44:18 am »
Thanks Andreas. What the problem actually is, is that when packaging Mozilla, lxlite is run on the executable (and DLLs) which screws up the icons if they're high colour, so what I actually need is a thunderbird.ico that is 256 colour.

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