Re: [Trisquel-users] What is the license for the Android SDK Platform Tools? How free are they?
> The SDK Platform Tools are great for removing bloatware from phones that > can't be rooted, particularly the command-line tools. > > I believe that at least the source is made available, but do not know how > free the tools really are, especially since they are developed by Google. > > Does anyone happen to know? android-sdk is in the Trisquel repo and appears to be under Apache 2.0, with some additional data under CC-BY-SA.[1] Both are free licenses. [1] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/android-sdk-meta/android-sdk-meta_25.0.0+10_copyright signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
@Liberated, I'm glad everything's working now. @Lil Beanie, If you are still having trouble with sound, can you try $ rm -rf ~/.config/pulse and see if the problem goes away as it did for Liberated? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] What is the license for the Android SDK Platform Tools? How free are they?
The SDK Platform Tools are great for removing bloatware from phones that can't be rooted, particularly the command-line tools. I believe that at least the source is made available, but do not know how free the tools really are, especially since they are developed by Google. Does anyone happen to know?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
The problem seems to have resolved itself after restarting the computer, having deleted the folder a few reboots before that, however. Most likely had something to do with that folder, as you said. Thank you again for all of the help! I really appreciate it!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
> Sound still does not work after deleting that folder. Then the problem might be unrelated to pulseaudio. To confirm though, can you run $ sudo apt remove pulseaudio reboot, and see if sound works (in vlc or something, not your browser). Then reinstall pulseaudio with $ sudo apt install pulseaudio If sound still does not work while pulseaudio is uninstalled, that will confirm that the problem is somewhere else. After you do that, let's temporarily rename your .config folder $ mv ~/.config ~/.config-backup and reboot again. See if sound works, and then restore your .config folder $ mv ~/.config-backup ~/.config If sound worked, that confirms that *something* in .config is the problem, and our next step will be to narrow down with file(s) it is. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
Sound still does not work after deleting that folder.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
> 'apt purge' removes *system* configuration files. My bad. Thanks for the correction. @Liberated Remove the folder Magic Banana mentions with $ rm -rf ~/.config/pulse and then log out and back in again.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
The problem is specific to the *user*. 'apt purge' removes *system* configuration files. It does not remove ~/.config/pulse (that is a folder named "pulse" in a hidden folder named ".config" in your home folder). I would try to remove it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize script?
> Can anybody confirm me that encrypted home folder (not encrypted disk) > will work after running this script on lubuntu 16.04 LTS? I have not used the script myself, but I've looked it over to get a sense of what it does. First note that the script is for Ubuntu 12.04 to Trisquel 6, so you'll first need to update it for Ubuntu 16.04/Trisquel 8 by changing this line: RELEASE=toutatis to RELEASE=flidas The script appears to do three things. (1) It modifies /etc/apt/sources.list to use the Trisquel 8 repo instead of the Ubuntu 16.04 repos, and then then updates your system. Most Trisquel packages are not modified from upstream, and these will be left alone. Any Ubuntu packages that Trisquel excludes will also be left alone (for now). Any installed Ubuntu packages to which Trisquel has made modifications will be replaced with Trisquel's version. This is essentially the same process by which you would upgrade to a later version of Ubuntu, but less invasive because most packages will stay the same. (2) It installs some Trisquel-specific packages like artwork and the default desktop environment, and purges some Ubuntu-specific artwork that it replaces. (3) It checks for some non-free packages, and if it finds any it asks you one-by-one if you want to remove them. I don't see any reason that these steps would mess with your encrypted home folder. Step (1) is less risky than upgrading to a later version of Ubuntu. Step (2) seems harmless. If you have some hardware (WiFi, GPU) that needs non-free firmware, then removing this firmware in step (3) could cause an issue, but it shouldn't break your system and I don't think it would affect your encrypted home folder. That said, as with any large change to your system, I recommend doing a backup first. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
> Unfortunately, running that command as well as running both of those apt > commands separately did not fix the configuration problem. I forgot to mention that you'll need to reboot next. Have you already done that? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
Unfortunately, running that command as well as running both of those apt commands separately did not fix the configuration problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize script?
In case no one else responds, perhaps create a disk image using Clonezilla or similar and test this yourself. It should not take too long and would be fairly low effort. You might want to create a disk image anyway before running the Trisquelize script in case the script does anything you may not prefer. publickey - davidpgil@protonmail.com - 0x01EB3346.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
> Yes, sound works perfectly in a guest session. That means that the problem is specific to your user's configuration. It sounds like ALSA works, since you got sound when testing your speakers in Sound settings. (I have since learned that a faster way to do this would have been to run "speaker-test" in a terminal.) This leads me to suspect that the problem is with your pulseaudio configuration. What I would do, is run $ sudo apt purge pulseaudio && sudo apt install pulseaudio The difference between "apt purge" and "apt remove" is that "remove" uninstalls the program but leaves your configuration files, whereas "purge" removes both the program and configuration files. This way, when you reinstall pulseaudio you will get fresh configuration files which should be the same as your Guest user. If this doesn't work, then the configuration problem is with something other than pulseaudio and we'll take it from there. In my experience though, pulseaudio is the most common culprit. Removing pulseaudio entirely would probably fix sound too, but Firefox and Firefox-derivatives like Abrowser and Icecat require pulseaudio for sound, so we're stuck with it. Hopefully returning to the default configuration will be enough. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Regarding my earlier comment about a possible bug in Invidious, I wish to clarify that it was NOT a bug. It was an error on my part during testing, I had different instances opened and made a mistake checking the connections being made. I apologize to omarroth for my error, as I have already done personally in an email sent to him. Invidious is right now the best way to watch youtube videos and a great project that deserves all our support.
Re: [Trisquel-users] X220 vs T450
Well, I didn't realize it was that bad. But yeah, T450 is not the best option anyways. Lenovo *might* be able to undo the intel me cleaner because of it being such a new processor. Long story short, T400s is the best current option, until g505s is made available under libreboot. Although that device is an ideapad and still hasn't been librebooted yet. But! it can be run without blobs supposedly. Though it sure isn't as durable as T400s. So long story short, X220 or X230 with coreboot + me cleaned are your next best option, or go straight for libreboot T400s if you want real freedom.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
@omarroth Hi, firstly, what is that in your picture? It looks like a variety of cetaceans. Is that chained one? As always sorry for off topic but this question is very important for me. Thanks.
