Re: [Ql-Users] uQLx on Linux (various HW platforms, various Linux distributions)

[Peter Graf]

Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
>> End of 2013 Peter Graf sent me a work-in-progress version of uQLx with
>> QL_BDI support (uqlx-src-peter-17-11-2013.zip). He stated that this works on
>> his (then) recent Debian 32-bit.
> 
> It doesn't work on my 64 bit linux.

The point might be 32 bit, not so much how recent. In 2013 there were
already the problems with 64 bit for some time.

Urs did you actually use a clean 32 Bit installation?

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Re: [Ql-Users] uQLx on Linux (various HW platforms, various Linux distributions)

[Wolfgang Lenerz]

Hi,

(...)

>  
> 
> End of 2013 Peter Graf sent me a work-in-progress version of uQLx with
> QL_BDI support (uqlx-src-peter-17-11-2013.zip). He stated that this works on
> his (then) recent Debian 32-bit.
> 

It doesn't work on my 64 bit linux.

> 
> Is it only me or is it true that all the old uQLx distributions plus the two
> above are not able to be installed and run on recent Linux systems (modern
> HW platforms, recent 32-bit or 64-bit Linux distributions). I one says one
> or the other uQLx distribution works could he or she provide an
> understandable and working step-by-step guide.
> 
>  
> 
Same here, they don't work.

Wolfgang

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[Ql-Users] uQLx on Linux (various HW platforms, various Linux distributions)

[Urs Koenig (QL)]

Hi QLers,

the only three Linux machines I own are my NAS, a SubNotebook and my
Raspberry Pi. While the NAS has its job to do, the SubNotebook gets dust on
a shelf, the Raspi gets at least fired up whenever I want to test a new
version of QL/E.

At work the situation is completely different, at least at the moment. We
are ramping up some new point-of-sales computers (3 series with the
following platforms: BayTrail, Haswell, Skylake) and are making sure the
retail applications work smoothly under both Windows and Linux. While the
Windows world is easy for me, Linux is still a bit of a mystery. Don't get
me wrong, installing a Linux distribution is most of the time trouble-free,
installing professional packages such as Java or device drivers for receipt
printers, barcode scanners, etc. is also easy and works most of the time. My
personal Unix/Linux know-how is somehow limited, but I'm save on the
desktops and with graphical dialogs plus I know some basic shell commands
and the purpose of some folders.

Installing and running SMSQmulator under Linux is trouble-free, I just unzip
the QL/E distribution and start it using the shell command "java -jar
entire_path_to_jar_file".

But even I wrote the step-by-step installation guide for uQLx ARM for the
Raspberry Pi, I constantly fail to install and run uQLx on Intel based Linux
systems. IIRC the last time I succeeded was about 12 years ago at a Swiss QL
workshop where Jon Dent and Markus Dettwiler were giving me a helping hand.

A year ago John was wrote to me:

> Have you seen  
https://github.com/slimlogic/uqlx-fork

> This has a version of uQLx that now works on native 64bit Linux boxes 

> without seg faulting when trying to modify files.

> You could previously run uQLx on a 64bit Linux only if you had the 

> 32bit i386 architecture packages.

 

End of 2013 Peter Graf sent me a work-in-progress version of uQLx with
QL_BDI support (uqlx-src-peter-17-11-2013.zip). He stated that this works on
his (then) recent Debian 32-bit.

 

Is it only me or is it true that all the old uQLx distributions plus the two
above are not able to be installed and run on recent Linux systems (modern
HW platforms, recent 32-bit or 64-bit Linux distributions). I one says one
or the other uQLx distribution works could he or she provide an
understandable and working step-by-step guide.

 

Urs

 

QL forever!

http://www.sinclairql.net/

 

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