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Calling all testers! |
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I have previously discussed the overhaul that GLI has undergone to |
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make the installer more interactive. As some of you know, a release |
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is approaching, and the overhaul is just now becoming stable again. |
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gli-dialog is functional again and much improved to the version |
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released in 2006.1. However, this was a major rewrite of a lot of |
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code and i'm quite certain that tons of bugs exist in the frontend |
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alone. I personally don't have enough time before the release to go |
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through and find them all. If you have vmware or other equivalent |
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emulator installed and don't mind pawing through trying to break |
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gli-dialog, here are the instructions for getting the overhaul |
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snapshot: |
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boot the 2006.1 livecd (2007.0 test cds will be avail soon for |
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testing, but not yet). |
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open a terminal (in Applications >> Accessories). |
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sudo su - |
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cat /opt/installer/misc/getgli |
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copy the wget line except change the ending. it should read |
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wget http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/snapshots/gli-current.tar.bz2 |
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tar xvfj gli-current.tar.bz2 |
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cd gli-overhaul/src/fe/dialog |
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./gli-dialog.py |
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for testing the gtkfe just replace the last two lines with cd |
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gli-overhaul/src/fe/gtk and ./gtkfe.py |
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please try to go through gli-dialog as thoroughly as you can (advanced |
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mode shows many screens otherwise hidden). |
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I will try to make the language files for gli-dialog soon so that |
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there is a chance of having internationalization this release. Any |
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offers to translate? |
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Thanks in advance to all testers, |
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-Codeman |
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