Re: Taking Dragora 3.0 beta 2 for a spin

I don't see qi being like apt where you can install from remote servers.

qi seems to be probably best used with rsync.

You could run sort -u PACKAGELIST.txt | qi install

The content of the txt file could be

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On September 22, 2023 1:03:19 PM EDT, Jonathan Matthew Gresham <name at domain> wrote:
>Thank you for making more progress than I have. The qi program, I think, has a not very detailed manual because it is incomplete.
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>https://www.dragora.org/en/manual/index.html
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>On September 12, 2023 1:03:38 PM EDT, name at domain wrote:
>>Here's a screen shot from my live session. It's using the Trinity Desktop Environment, which is a fork of the old KDE 3 desktop environment.
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>>I downloaded the ISO from the fsf mirror: https://mirror.fsf.org/dragora/
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>>When booting you get a "Live" option, which sends you to a tty logged in as the root user. I believe that the root password is "dragora" if you ever need it - I have not needed it yet.
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>>I typed the 'startx' command to see if it would send me into a desktop environment, and that's when I got the Trinity Desktop.
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>>It's got a lot of unique features. It's using musl instead of glibc, for one thing. It's using sysvinit instead of systemd. It actually seems very zippy - I know from running musl on another distro that it can speed things up a bit, or it uses fewer resources than a glibc system.
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>>Memory usage is interesting - it's only using 233mb of ram when in the desktop environment. And when I open the Konqueror web browser, the ram usage does not increase for some reason. So I assume that Konqueror is running in the background all the time.
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>>Konqueror itself is quite old and not compatible with much of the modern web, and possibly not even secure enough to use. But of course I should be able to install a more modern browser.
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>>I can't figure out how to search for new packages yet. Dragora uses a package manager called "qi", which apparently builds the packages, but I don't understand how it works yet.
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>>There seems to be a list of some of the available packages here: https://mirror.fsf.org/dragora/current/packages/amd64/
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>>I tried downloading the Libre Moon web browser binary tarball and running it as a browser, but it won't run. I think if I install Dragora rather than using it as a Live ISO that I'll get a separate user account than root and maybe I'll be able to download and run some programs.
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>>If anyone has any experience with Dragora, especially in terms of using the 'qi' package manager to find and install packages, I'd love to hear from you about how this distro works.
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Could you please show us (step-by-step, even if you installed it using the dragora-installer) how did you managed to install the OS?
I am having trouble installing GRUB by using the installer, it loads saying something about the i386 platform, then it gives me the following error: error; unknown filesystems.
But all the partition are still intact.
I am using a Legacy boot, but i've got no problem following the instructions for an UEFI boot.