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renihs · Last edited by renihs on Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:48 pm; edited 21 times in total

*UPDATE* 0.19.5 --> posting is on page 3

hi folks!
since some time now i have been working on a gentoo based livedvd originally aimed for scientific users. however i started including everything that makes sense (or doesnt), like multimedia-apps/dvd/cd-r/video-editing/sound/forensics/games/ whatsoever.

i am trying to make this dvd as "complete" as possible in terms of packages...
which apps would you say are a "must have?", in essence, apps you wouldnt want to miss anywhere?

http://www.doebling.sth.ac.at/livedvd/installed.packages
(please note, this file does not contain the installed packages on 0.17.1 but on my current build..., i ll put the 0.17.1 online again soon)

some boring screenshots (livedvd booted on my ibm t42 ati mobile 7500 / dual athlon 1.2 geforce fx5700)...
http://www.doebling.sth.ac.at/livedvd/screens.html

torrent links:

http://www.bcc.univie.ac.at/embnet/LiveDVD/

if you wish to use the molecular (wEMBOSS, taverna, seqvista & other) packages download the EMBnet version since the gentoo one is a bit broken. except that the only main difference is a different default background image

thanks alot!

*update*:
Kernel: 2.6.9-r1 (udev)
X-Server: xorg 6.7.0-r3
Window Manager: Gnome 2.8 / Fluxbox / Openbox / Rox
RAM: 128MB >= required
dvd iso Size: 2.4GB
Filesystem Size: ~7GB
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BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

opera
centericq
tetex
vim
latexsuite
wmi
openbox
acroread/xpdf
gv
gnuplot
ruby
rgplot (ruby-gnuplot module)
ooffice
vimspell
octave
maxima

mplayer
xine
vlc
xmms

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

thx already for your input, most packages are included already
adding centericq, ruby, rgbplot, opera, wmi now

i *really* would like to add maxima but it gives me compile errors and i dont dare to use latest ~x86 package since that requires a ~x86 masked gnuplot package....which i am afraid would break things? (sci-lab, other stuff relying on gnuplot?)

also vlc gives me some compile errors, still tracking that issue

if anyone has experience with compiling maxima i would like to hear about it

thx already

BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject:

With the masked version do you mean 4.0? I don't think it will break anything, but haven't tested it much. I can't remember compiling errors with maxima....

With vlc I remember I had to add the useflags mentioned on the vlc site (and use the 0.8 version). Vlc is a pain in the ass to compile and if can crash quite hard if you try anything like changing the skin.. In my opinion it has the best playlist editor by far though and the dvd playback seems better than xine.

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

yes gnuplot 4.0-r1 something

if i try to emerge the non ~x86 maxima package i get the following error (googled already a bit and found a couple ppl with same prob and without solution).
maybe you can make something out of this error

;; Loaded file /var/tmp/portage/maxima-5.9.0/work/maxima-5.9.0/lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp
;; Loading file /var/tmp/portage/maxima-5.9.0/work/maxima-5.9.0/src/maxima.system ...
; - Compiling defsystem "maxima"
; - Loading module "package"
; - Loading source file "maxima-package.lisp"
*** - REGEXP:REGEXP-COMPILE: keyword arguments in (T) should occur pairwise
0 errors, 0 warnings
make[1]: *** [binary-clisp/maxima.mem] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/maxima-5.9.0/work/maxima-5.9.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: sci-mathematics/maxima-5.9.0 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 20, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

Does this help???

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=229832&highlight=maxima

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject:

yes i was reading the same thread

that one sounds good, i ll test it as soon my squashfs run is complete

oh an vlc and vdr are emerged now too

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject:

updated gnuplot and emerged maxima, dunno about the flags (-auctex +clisp -cmucl +emacs -gcl -sbcl +tetex)
worked fine

bladdo · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 334 Location: NJ

openbox

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renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:

openbox added

(i thought i already had

)

gen2fox · Guru Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 544

Why not add some games? Like frozen bubble for example.

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject:

frozen bubble seems to be quite popular

. i was advised that one on #gentoo irc too

xbubble was emerged (mistook that one for frozen-bubble, didnt find it first), frozen-bubble is beeing compiled now.

yes i am moving towards the game section, enemy-territory will be included too ofc. however gl-acceleration only works for ati cards at the moment, need to adapt same gl-lib locations to make opengl-update work on the dvd.

gen2fox · Guru Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 544

While you are at it, emerge nethack too

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject:

done

and i added noegnud-nethack too

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

games-arcade/supertux

renihs · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

also in the compile schedule

renihs · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

i took some boring screenshots of the livedvd (booted from my thinkpad t42).

http://www.doebling.sth.ac.at/livedvd/screens.html

the background normally is less cute, this one is from

http://dugnet.com/klown/wallpaper/

Q-collective · Veteran Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 1921

mythtv
xfce4 4.1.99.3
azureus
amule
liferea
gnome-terminal (this will require about 3/4 of all gnome packages, lol)
konqueror (kdelibs and kdebase)
Enemy Territory with the older maps (that's about 500 MB of maps and 200 MB of game we're talking about)
Planeshift (although the cvs client changes periodically, making old versions unuseble)

shagrat · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 218 Location: Norway

screen
vim
irssi
mutt
pine

Hauser · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject:

dosfstools
mrxvt
djbdns
gvim
imagemagick
vlc
k3b
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renihs · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

hmm check the installed.packages file

, alot of the suggested stuff is already included hehe

anyhow, adding missing packages now

mythtv doesnt emerge though, Tk-TableMatrix doesnt compile (still tracking that...)

xfce: i really would like to include that but i never touched it (gnome/fluxbox/rox), and i dont want to use a completely unconfigured desktop environment.

enemy territory will be included soon ofc, but i doubt that 500mb of maps are needed

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Titeuf · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

Most things I want are already there, but I would use openoffice-ximian instead of openoffice and beep-media-player instead of xmms.
Also add kobodeluxe, a nice space shooter and zsnes, a snes emulator

How does hardware detection work ? Are those the same as of knoppix (I noticed there were some knoppix packages in there)

dol-sen · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject:

I like the look of the openoffice-ximian (gtk), but I found that a number of things don't work properly, namely printing. I have found the original package better/ more stable.
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renihs · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

enemy territory: hehe yes i do play et, also have a small server. however i dont see the need for 500mb! of maps, the default + some must have should do the trick. however, should enough room remain (currently 8.3GB used) it could be considered.

ximian-office: yes i wanted to include that one however i got some emerge errors, that is still tracked.

hardware detection: i use autoconfigure from livecd tools and knoppix hwsetup/mkxf86config and still am working on a couple of scripts to fix the created xorg conf to work with nvidia/etc. still not finished. also i need to move the gllibs to new locations to get opengl-update to work from dvd. at the moment it does a good job and it boots without problems on a lot of systems however i did encountered already some systems which wont boot (hanging at autconfiguring devices etc).

added zsnes and kobodeluxe