Precise Pangolin alpha 1

[SteveRiley]

Welcome. This sub-board will remain open until 26 April 2012 or the official release date of Precise Pangolin, after which we'll move to the usual set of sub-boards. Enjoy.

--Steve

[oshunluvr]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

D/L's and installed Alpha 1 in a VM to a btrfs partition and it installed without issues. Maybe they've fixed Ubiquity is this regard?

I also noticed the "Flash Cards" that display during install wait time have not been updated - so don't let the 11.10 in there fool you.

[claydoh]

Re: Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

There is little to differentiate precise from oneiric right now, really. Due in part to Jonathan's accident, there wasn't officially a Kubuntu alpha release. We may see kde 4.8 pre release in the next week or so.

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[vinnywright]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

just installed the dayly live (12/11)to my testing partition on my HP-G62 ........... so far so good.

the dayly live I had from a week or so ago wouldent compleet the install but this one did .......humm spell check isent working in firfox at the moment

VINNY

[blackpaw]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Due in part to Jonathan's accident

Wow, I didn't know about that (have looked it up now). glad her seem to be ok, but certainly don't want him getting back to work until he's recovered.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Accidentally nuked my precise system yesterday, so did a new upgrade from oneiric. After downloading some 3gb, went pretty well. Had to remove texlive stuff, which reiinstalled just fine after the upgrade.

Note that ia32-libs-multiarch isn't installable at this point, so don't remove ia32-libs if you need wine.

[kpete]

Precise Pangolin alpha 1 - is it OK to express wishes here?

It is time to do something seroius about file sharing and network as accessed through the GUI, i.e. Dolphin. It clearly does not work out of the box as evidenced in the recent "How to use Network options in Dolphin" posting in the "Help the new guy" section. We do not live in a Microsoft-centric world anymore - integration with Mac's, TimeCapsules and the like is important. Access to local network Linux computers (NFS, I guess) and Macs including TimeCapsules (afp nad zeroconf/bonjour) ought to work using default settings and installed components.
Netatalk does afp one way, afpfs-ng the other way but the latter cannot install on kubuntu systems newer than 10.10.
I think that time is up to roll these network protocols into the system and give them a GUI via Dolphin (or Dolphin's successor if such a thing is on the drawing board).
Thanks for taking the time to read this far
kpete

[SteveRiley]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

I think that time is up to roll these network protocols into the system and give them a GUI via Dolphin (or Dolphin's successor if such a thing is on the drawing board).

Nautilus in GNOME seems to handle this a lot better. I remember spending days trying to find and configure Smb4k just so that Calibre on my Kubuntu box could read and update ebooks on my Windows Home Server using SMB. It worked flawlessly with the GVFS stack included with GNOME. Alas, we don't something quite so simple in KDE-land. KIO can be this, but so far hasn't.

[budr]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Why does the precise install disk insist on downloading a bunch of stuff in the middle of the install even when you uncheck the download updates checkbox?

[claydoh]

Re: Re: Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Why does the precise install disk insist on downloading a bunch of stuff in the middle of the install even when you uncheck the download updates checkbox?

A) it could be a bug - this IS an alpha
B)I think it may be updating the installer files
C) it's an alpha

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[blackpaw]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Are the dailys still on KDE 4.7.4?

Once it switches to 4.8 Beta/RC I'd be interested in testing

[budr]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Are the dailys still on KDE 4.7.4?

I think they're still at 4.7.3. And I think I read recently that they plan to skip 4.7.4 and go straight to the 4.8 beta. I've been kind of watching for that too.

[blackpaw]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Ok, thanks

[Guest]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

Hi, this is my first post here.

Where can I get official info updated about the Alpha 1 release of 12.04?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Precise Pangolin alpha 1

I downloaded Precise on 1/02/2012 and when I look at the "About KDE" they are calling it
KDE 7.7.95 (4.8rc1)

I am running it on my new Acer AS7739. It is obviously a beta release, but it has three months to shape up.

What I've found:
Akonadi and Nincompoop take about 100% of one core and 50% of the other. Indexing never stops.
Uninstalling kwallet with purge doesn't remove the kwalletd daemon.

KMail crashes every time it closes.
KMail indexing eats up as many cpu cycles as Akonadi and Nincompoop. I turn off desktop indexing because I do all my searching with locate, grep and pipes.
Kmail refuses to display some emails even though the counter shows emails to be in the input box.

Since the updates yesterday, Precise shuts down without problems but the next boot up finds EXT4 errors that check disk can't fix without manually pressing "F". Nothing seems to be amiss, however. Or, it got repaired. No data appears to be missing and all apps appear to work as usual, if not normally.

The headphones jack switches the sound from the speakers to the headphones and back, but it resets other sound controls and makes Ekiga difficult to use because of feedback oscillations. It is nearly impossible to set the sound on Audacity to make a decent recording using either the on board or an external mic.

I cannot install GoogleEarth or Blink because they require the ia32 libraries, which require the ia32MultiArch:i386 libraries, which won't install because a certain library is incompatible. And when sometimes, when attempting to install it one has to abort because it wants to removve most of the system to install about 150 32bit library files. In fact, this blocks ALL 32 bit apps from being installed.

The panel seems stable enough. Icons come and go as they should.

KNetwork Manager is behaving flawlessly. Amazing as that is. I've been given no reason to switch to wicd, which I always had to do in the past to get a reliable wifi connection.

The 3.2 kernel is very nice. It and the i915 video driver are running the accelerated video very fast and with a minimum of heat generation. For a low end video, HD Graphics with 128MB of GPU RAM, accelerated video is working very nicely. The last update killed the acceleration, I found that it enabled VSync. When I unchecked that and reactived "Enable Desktop" I got acceleration back.

PostgreSQL and PGAdmin3 installed nicely and runs well. So does LibreOffice.
Bibletime crashes when it attempts to display a version. It's permissions are screwed up. Running everyhting as root or as user fails, as does the mixed mode.

Stellarium and KStars work very well.
wxMaxima works well. I haven't installed SAGE yet, but will soon.
QtCreator (from the QtSDK in the repository) allows me to create a debugger executable, but not a release executable.

Bzr and Git work.
FireFox for Canonical Ubuntu 1.0 (10.0) works well.
Cheese works well.
guvcview does NOT work. ("FATAL: g_thread NOT supported")

Okular works.
Synaptic still works better than Muon.

More later.