update git trisquel 7

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kerdadit
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Iscritto: 06/06/2018

Hi everyone,

I am new to Trisquel and free software generally, with my Libiquity Taurinus laptop that came with Trisquel 7. I am trying to use an emacs package called Magit, which says

Error (magit): Magit requires Git >= 1.9.4, you are using 1.9.1.

Is this 1.9.4 version freedom compliant, and if so can you recommend the best way to install it on Trisquel 7?

Thanks!

chaosmonk

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Iscritto: 07/07/2017

> can you recommend the
> best way to install it on Trisquel 7?

Is there a particular reason you don't want to upgrade to Trisquel 8? Trisquel 8 has git version 2.7.4.

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

Or if you don't want to make the change to a newer version of Trisquel then:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git

But you might also want to consider moving to Trisquel 8 to get newer versions of more than just git.

kerdadit
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Iscritto: 06/06/2018

Hey chaosmonk,

The guy from Libiquity said that their boot firmware has a bug which is exposed by the new version of the linux kernel that Trisquel 8 uses, where the issue is that the clock resets itself to 1970 on each boot. He said if I upgrade to Trisquel 8 I would need to install a Network Time Protocol client which would use internet servers to fix the clock and that they would eventually release a firmware upgrade to fix this. I didn't want to have to be connected to the internet for my clock to work correctly, so I thought I'd wait for the upgrade. I would love to upgrade to Trisquel 8 if there's a way around that. Thanks.

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

The date problem was fixed in the libreboot version released on May 18 2015:
https://libreboot.org/docs/release.html
"RTC century byte issue now fixed on GM45 in coreboot-libre, so the date should now be correctly displayed when running the latest linux kernel, instead of seeing 1970-01-01 when you boot (thanks to Alexander Couzens from coreboot)"

So, in short: You should upgrade to the current version of libreboot which is from September 7 2016.

kerdadit
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Iscritto: 06/06/2018

Thanks jxself. I just sent an email to Libiquity asking why they don't recommend or ship with the latest version. I am a little nervous because they didn't recommend (or ship) that originally. Do you have any theories why?

I'll use the PPA for git until I can make sure there's nothing about this Taurinus machine that is incompatible with the new libreboot. I don't know much (anything) about librebooting, which is why I purchased an already librebooted machine in the first place!

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

I have no idea why but there's no reason to not install it. It's been out for almost 2 years already and has been well tested by people all over the planet in those 2 years!