All Projects

my recommended fix, make it reflect the applications that are actually installed on the system after removing non-free software support.

my recommended fix, make it reflect the applications that are actually installed on the system after removing non-free software support.

Package Request: https://github.com/calamares/calamares

Original Bug Report:
— I would also like to test the beta isos when they are ready through qemu. If it looks good I plan to fully install them onto my laptop. My libreboot x200.

I don’t know if I should make a separate feature for this, but xfce is a good stable desktop environment for such a choice. that and lxde.

Though lxde is going to die...

I tried to extract a RAR v5 archive using unar that works fine when using the non-free unrar.

Here is the log (with the file name altered)

$ unar file.part1.rar
file.part1.rar: RAR 5

file.mp4  (-2144860915 B)... Failed! (Attempted to read more data than was available)

Extraction to current directory failed! (1 file failed.)

Please add in the FAQ that newer RAR archives (version 5) may not work when using unar.

I have installed multiple times Hyperbola, 4 times on 4 different notebooks.

What I have noticed is that the live ISO is quite huge in relation to the task that should be done. Namely. the live ISO shall at least contain some first packages, so that they do not need to be downloaded online.

Best would be if the live ISO can be copied straight and that system can run from ISO/DVD without having Internet. At least one simple graphical environment shall be included.

Further, I have noticed that there is only network instructions as HTML file.

I would rather call it installation-instructions.html to make it clear for people what it is. Or simply: INSTALL.html so that people understand what it is.

It says just network.html if I remember well.

Then there is absolutely no point or link or reference to the installation instructions.

Each time I got a network I had to go to either duckduckgo search engine or to hyperbola.info website and then I tried with lynx to find installation instructions.

It is not straight, not quite clearly in open, it is in Wiki, but that is quite hard to find.

We have to put ourselves in the shoes of those in need of free software. Millions of people need free software.

Many of us live in a developed western countries.

Yet millions of people in need of this software live in South America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe.

There are millions of students that could advance their study, and that could progress faster with free software.

In those countries Internet is often non-existent, universities may be located in poor network areas, Internet is being fetched by using mobile phones.

So if there is a live distribution, such shall at least contain basic software, which really can fit onto any DVD, and that as such can be copied on the computer without using Internet. Upgrades could be fetched by using Internet.

And there shall be clear reference, link or file about installation. There shall be no need to go to Internet to install the software.

recommended fix, remove non-free software entries in menu and replace them with applications that actually exist.

Description:

cat msg | /usr/sbin/sendmail – sendmail: No such file or directorycannot create temporary file /var/spool/smtpd/offline/1572544775.XXXXIqNsFX

Additional info:
* package version: 6.4.2p1-1.hyperbola2.backports1

It is same problem as here:
https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD/issues/839

I could solve it with:

sudo chmod g+s /usr/sbin/smtpctl
sudo chmod g+s /usr/sbin/smtpctl

and then

sudo rc-service smtpd start

Even though I think I should not need to start it to use only sendmail.

Description:

$ marble-qt –latlone=0.5,6.5
Ignoring to load the following file since it doesn’t look like a valid Marble plugin: “/usr/lib/marble/plugins/libWlocatePositionProviderPlugin.so” Reason: “Cannot load library /usr/lib/marble/plugins/libWlocatePositionProviderPlugin.so: (libwlocate.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)”

When package libwlocate is installed, it is not showing this error.

Shall that package be dependency?

Description: Per a user request and to better secure the kernel, we can embed the cryptsetup and ciphers in the kernel. This would mean rather than exposed modules, they are built-in to the kernel and ready to use even without an intramfs.

To be embedded: ciphers aes, twofish, serpent; sha256, sha512 - and the necessary modules (don’t forget the block modes xts, lvm and cryptsetup ...)

Additionally, we could include USB Guard and any other features that meet our social contract and security outlook.

Description:
linphonec is unusable because a error produce a continuous log

Additional info:
linphone 3.11.1-1.hyperbola1

Steps to reproduce:
linphonec

Log:
linphonec> 2019-12-15 19:25:58:010 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:03:012 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:08:018 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:13:013 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:18:016 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:23:014 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:28:010 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:33:010 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:38:012 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:43:015 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:48:010 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable
2019-12-15 19:26:53:010 ortp-error-Error in connect: Network is unreachable

It appears when I plug in my libreboot laptop x200 in, it appears to dim the screen and when its unplugged, the screen is bright again. Something peculiar is at work, I wondered if this could be fixed.

My assumption is it is related to lxdm or lightdm. Any thoughts?

I am currently using 0.4, so I don’t expect this to be a fast process, just when you get a chance okay?

/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts has 0 entries, resulting in ssl handshake errors in java applications.

Package versions:
* ca-certificates 20170307-1
* ca-certificates-utils 20170307-1

Description:

groff is typesetting system similar to TeX/LaTeX however, it is very small and very usable. It is not built properly with URW fonts, or such are missing, I cannot know all details. Overall groff package is basically somehow broken.

It shall depend on proper fonts, and such fonts should already be built, including their Unicode versions.

Package is only partially built.

https://github.com/rodlie/powerkit/releases

Version 1.0 requested

When you add Lumina desktop, add this package for sure. Although it is compatible with other desktops too. So it would be good to add it regardless.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

community/zynaddsubfx 3.0.1-1
    Opensource software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments.

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Free software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments.

Description:
Something is wrong with the latest version packaged in Hyperbola. zathura-pdf-poppler is unable to process apostrophes displayed in pdf bookmarks.

Steps to reproduce:
Open any pdf file which has a summary included, then hit `Tab` to display the summary. Instead of apostrophes, zathura-pdf-poppler displays html entities while the output of zathura-pdf-mupdf is correct.

Yaics is a simple GNU social client written in C++ and Qt and licensed under the GNU GPL 3.0 (or later).

Please implement yaics as an optional package.

https://stigatle.no/yaics/

https://gitlab.com/stigatle/yaics

Description:

community/xwax 1.6-1
     Open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source” and “Linux”:

community/xwax 1.6-1
    Open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux.

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source” and “Linux” as operating system, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source” and “Linux” as operating system.

eg.

Free-software vinyl emulation software for GNU/Linux.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/xvidcore 1.3.4-1 [installed]
    XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

XviD is a free software MPEG-4 video codec

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/xsd 4.0.0-2
    An open-source, cross-platform W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding compiler

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A free-software, cross-platform W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding compiler

Description:

extra/xorg-xev 1.2.2-1 (xorg-apps xorg)
    Print contents of X events

Description is vague because of the word “content”. Why not say “X events information”. At least description shall be changed which is very public. For man page I am not sure.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Two formats (including HTML and PHP) are provided to run semi-libre/free web browser Mozilla Firefox in the original code base, but it currently got blacklisted due to numerous branding, security and privacy issues, and replaced by the Hyperbola Iceweasel-UXP. To replace existing strings at the web section in xferc.in:

html = "iceweasel-uxp,iceweasel-uxp,<txteditor>;Hyper Text;html_32x32.png;html_16x16.png;;"
htm = "iceweasel-uxp,iceweasel-uxp,<txteditor>;Hyper Text;html_32x32.png;html_16x16.png;;"
php = "iceweasel-uxp,iceweasel-uxp,<txteditor>;PHP Source;html_32x32.png;html_16x16.png;;"

A format is not known or recognized in the original code base. To add a string into at the audio section in xferc.in:

opus = "<audioplayer>,<audioplayer>,audacity;Opus Audio;mp3_32x32.png;mp3_16x16.png;;"

I probably should’ve mentioned this before, but if it is set to suspend when lid is closed, it should automatically lock. if the security option: lock screen with system is set to sleep is tweaked on it doesn’t lock always.

This is word for word what I wrote in the forums, but yeah... it is a problem say if someone wants to use your laptop without your permission and can do so.

But it is also a problem if you set it to lock instead because it is more prone to overheating when your not using it, and it doesn’t suspend quickly enough.

I have tried this many times and the same story can be told, again and again.

I think this issue should be considered high or critical merely because of the privacy risk if someone gets their hands on your laptop while its on. Even if you have been away... :/

I wonder if anyone else has this issue... well you guys will tell me I am sure. if critical doesn’t match what you think I am sure you will change it. ;)

Please add xfce4-alsa-plugin (to get rid of pulseaudio plugin on xfce)

License: GPL3

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce4-alsa-plugin/ https://github.com/equeim/xfce4-alsa-plugin

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/xapian-core 1:1.4.2-1
    Open source search engine library.

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Free software search engine library.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/x265 2.4-1
    Open Source H265/HEVC video encoder

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Free Software H265/HEVC video encoder

Description:

community/wxcam 1.1-9
     Webcam application for linux

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/wireshark-qt 2.2.6-1
     a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - Qt frontend

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/wireshark-gtk 2.2.6-1
     a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - GTK frontend

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Please remove references to proprietary software.

Description:

community/wireshark-cli 2.2.6-1
     a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - CLI version

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

I would remove Unix and Windows from description as those words steer users towards non-free proprietary software.

community/wireshark-cli 2.2.6-1
    a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - CLI version
community/wireshark-common 2.2.6-1
    Common files used by wireshark-gtk and wireshark-qt
community/wireshark-gtk 2.2.6-1
    a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - GTK frontend
community/wireshark-qt 2.2.6-1
    a free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows - Qt frontend

It’s better to change to a more neutral description such as “a cross-platform network protocol analyzer - CLI/GTK/Qt version”.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

community/wiredtiger 2.9.1-1
    High performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, Open Source extensible platform for data management

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

High performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL, Free Software extensible platform for data management

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/wildmidi 0.4.0-1
    Open Source MIDI Synthesizer

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Free Software MIDI Synthesizer

Could it be possible to add :

whipper

“A Unix CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed – forked from morituri”

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/any/whipper/ https://github.com/JoeLametta/whipper

License : GPL3

Thanks

Hello,

Would it be possible to add this package :

wekan

“Wekan is an completely Open Source and Free software collaborative kanban board application”

https://github.com/wekan/wekan

License : MIT

Thanks

Description:

extra/webkitgtk 2.4.11-6.hyperbola1
    Legacy Web content engine for GTK+ 3, without geoclue2 support

The description is vague. There is not even need to use “content” here. Web engine should be very clear. “Content” alone does not make sense.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Description:

extra/webkit2gtk 2.16.1-3.hyperbola1 [installed]
    GTK+ Web content engine library, without geoclue2 support

The description is vague as it is using “content” in description. Why not say “elements” or something more descriptive.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Description:

community/webfs 1.21-13
    Simple and instant http server for mostly static content.

Description is vague because of the word “content”. Why not simply say “files” instead and be more specific.

Even empty files without data inside can be served.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Description:

The description of the package need to be changed to accommodate:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

To refer to published works as “assets”, or “digital assets”, is even worse than calling them “content” — it presumes they have no value to society except commercial value.

community/warsow-data 2.1.2-1.hyperbola2
    Free online multiplayer competitive FPS based on the Qfusion engine (data files), without nonfree assets

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

w_scan

“Universal ATSC and DVB blind scanner”

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/w_scan/

License : GPL

Thanks

here is the description from the website

https://github.com/ruediger/VobSub2SRT

VobSub2SRT is a simple command line program to convert .idx / .sub subtitles into .srt text subtitles by using OCR. It is based on code from the MPlayer project - a really really great movie player. Some minor parts are copied from ffmpeg/avutil headers. Tesseract is used as OCR software.

vobsub2srt is released under the GPL3+ license. The MPlayer code included is GPL2+ licensed.

The quality of the OCR depends on the text in the subtitles. Currently the code does not use any preprocessing. But I’m currently looking into adding filters and scaling options to improve the OCR. You can correct mistakes in the .srt files with a text editor or a special subtitle editor.

Attached is a working PKGBUILD for the latest stable version.

Current VLC version (3.0.4-3.hyperbola1.backports1) fails to play DVB stream using a RTL2832 usb dongle.

I start the playlist like this :

vlc channels.conf

but it returns the following error :

cache_block stream error: cannot pre fill buffer

Also, it asks the user to be in “video” group to access DVB device, this was not needed before with Hyperbola 0.2.9. User being in “wheel” was enough.
Anyway, even after adding my user to video group, it still fails with “cache_block stream error: cannot pre fill buffer”

This is not an issue with my DVB adapter or driver. rtl2832 is correctly loaded. And I can play the channels.conf playlist just fine with “mpv” or “mplayer”.
Also, the channels.conf used works just fine with a more recent version of VLC on an other system (Manjaro) so something is broken with the current VLC used.

Maybe a package bump would fix the issue.

Trying to create a VM using virt-install (1.4.1-2.hyperbola2)

virt-install --connect qemu:///system \
--name debian \
--ram 1024 \
--disk path=/home/test/debian.img,size=50 \
--vcpus 2 \
--os-type linux \
--os-variant generic \
--network bridge=virbr0 \
--graphics none \
--console pty,target_type=serial \
--location 'http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/' \
--extra-args 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial'

This error shows up :
ERROR : ‘_OsVariant’ object has no attribute ‘urldistro’

I can’t create the VM.

PS : Error is not present on Debian Stretch with virt-install 1.4.0-5

Thanks for your help.

Could it be possible to add :

vidcutter

“A modern, simple to use, constantly evolving and hella fast MEDIA CUTTER + JOINER w/ frame-accurate SmartCut technology + Qt5, libmpv, FFmpeg and MediaInfo powering the backend.”

License : GPL3

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vidcutter/

https://vidcutter.ozmartians.com/

Add “uzem” emulator and “uzebox” firmware packages[0][1].

It’s a emulator and firmware for fully free 8bit game console.

[0]:http://belogic.com/uzebox/index.asp (no https found)
[1]:https://github.com/Uzebox/uzebox

Description:

community/ussp-push 0.11-6
     OBEX object pusher for Linux

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

lsusb does not resolve device names from /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids

The same thing as described here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/220759/lsusb-doesnt-list-device-names

Description:

community/usb_modeswitch 2.5.0-1
     Activating switchable USB devices on Linux.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux