I have installed Void Linux on a Raspberry Pi yesterday, planning to install a bunch of old games as well as DosBox on it.

But after the installation I noticed that nethack wasn't in the arm repos, despite being in the Void x86 and x86_64 repos as well as the arm Raspberry Pi OS repos.

Is there any plan to add nethack in the arm repos of Void Linux?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14067380

Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

I have no idea who manages the repo or anything, but just wondering about when kde6 will make it to the repo if anyone has any idea

Also a good chanco for me to ask about how the repo works lmao

Despite using Linux/Void I still don't know much about it

Could someone please build this on anything other than x86 or x64 (like a Pi or something like that). I know cross-compile exists, but for some reason, it doesn't cross compile even to x86 on x64 (have no idea why... I added glib-devel to hostdepends), but it does build in a native x86 envronment. So, my guess is, it will build natively on most environments, but I'm not sure... hence, asking for help.

# Template file for 'DIE'
pkgname=DIE
version=3.09
revision=1
build_style=cmake
create_wrksrc=yes
hostmakedepends="cmake qt5 qt5-qmake qt5-plugin-mysql qt5-plugin-odbc
 qt5-plugin-pgsql qt5-plugin-sqlite qt5-plugin-tds glib-devel"
makedepends="base-devel qt5-devel qt5-tools-devel qt5-script-devel qt5-svg-devel
 yara-devel"
short_desc="DIE (Detect It Easy) is a program for determining types of files"
maintainer="MechDR <[email protected]>"
license="MIT"
homepage="https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy"
distfiles="https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/download/${version}/die_sourcecode_${version}.tar.gz"
checksum="eb458c5fbc3d06abf04c552ca20e0d0cfcf36540c2f0962feb79e2f4ea65bc12"

post_extract() {
	cp -a "die_sourcecode_${version}"/* .
	rm -rf "die_sourcecode_${version}"
}

pre_configure() {
	sed -i '/"Linux")/a \ \ \ \ set (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "/usr")' CMakeLists.txt
	chmod a+x configure
}

do_build() {
	mkdir -p build
	cmake . -G Ninja -B build
	cd build
	ninja -j 4
}

https://github.com/MechDR/nero-linux-4-for-void-linux

In case anyone wants it...

How do you go about setting up XMonad with XMobar on Void? Installing it via XBPS results in errors about not being able to find the module 'XMonad', and using Cabal fixes that, but leads to XMobar not being able to find my font and uses a pixelated font instead.

In case anyone needs it...

Thought I'd ask here first, then report if it's a bug. Haven't used Nmap on Void before. I installed the latest version available in the repos (7.94). Still, no matter what combo of switches I use, it never shows hostnames. I even tried -R (reverse DNS lookup), it still doesn't report the hostnames. On the other hand, Advanced IP Scanner (Windows) resolves hostnames just fine. Avahi daemon is running, though that shouldn't make a difference as far as I know. Samba is also installed and smbd and nmbd are running just fine.

Now, I know that this rig is old (Core 2 Quad with an Intel G43 chipset, onboard graphics), but it seems kinda weird for a hex editor to require something graphically fancy... or maybe I'm just old and live somewhat in the past 🤔.

Anyhow, here is what ImHex returns.

[14:56:43] [INFO]  [main] Welcome to ImHex 1.30.1!
[14:56:43] [ERROR] [main] GLFW Error [65543] : GLX: Failed to create context: GLXBadFBConfig
[14:56:43] [FATAL] [main] Failed to create GLFW window: [65543] GLX: Failed to create context: GLXBadFBConfig.
You may not have a renderer available.
The most common cause of this is using a virtual machine
You may want to try a release artifact ending with 'NoGPU'

Here is what glxinfo | grep version says.

server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.4
    Max core profile version: 0.0
    Max compat profile version: 2.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 2.0
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 23.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 23.2.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16

Regarding the "You may want to try a release artifact ending with 'NoGPU'" suggestion, I really have no idea what it means.

Any help is appreciated. I would just like to run some graphical hex editor on this thing, something simple, like HxD or something similar. If anyone has any other suggestions except ImHex, I'd gladly switch, cuz, to be honest, ImHex seems like a lot more than what I'm asking for, but that was the only thing available that was with a GUI and in the repo.

It's an older PC, a P4 I use as a radio streamer mostly, so the install is x86.

The problem is, audio seems to play back faster. I have it set up to boot up the streaming application after boot (Tuner, about 20 seconds after boot since it uses a spinning IDE HDD, so the rig is slow on boot) and sometimes (rarely) everything will be fine, the playback speed will be fine. But, most of the time, the audio plays back faster. In some rare cases, I've also noticed it can play slower as well. Also, if the audio is fine after Tuner starts and you change radio streams, back to square one, it starts playing the audio faster.

I tried running other applications, like VLC and Audacious to see if the same thing is happening in them. Yep, the same thing. I still haven't tried Winamp with wine.

I still use PulseAudio on that rig. I didn't see a reason to switch since it did it's job, I don't really need anything fancy on it, just a workable audio out was all I needed.

Also, I have no idea when this actually started happening (everything worked fine when I set it up a few years ago, 1.5 or 2 years ago I think) since I haven't used it in a while as a streamer, but I needed to use it now. I thought it might be a kernel/driver bug, so I rolled back a snapshot a few months ago (I think a snapshot that still had some 5.x version of the kernel), and it did kinda work (the fast playback speeds were less sporadic) but it didn't eliminate the problem completely.

Please, tell me what commands to run on this thing, I'll do it and post the output. It uses an onboard audio card, some old Intel card part of the chipset I think. Here is the output from lspci regarding the audio.

Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I'm thinking PulseAudio is so outdated now that it causes problems like these on certain chipsets/audio controllers, but I'm not sure. I know I'll have to eventually switch to PipeWire, but I was hoping I could ride the PulseAudio train a little longer.

hi,

when I log in from lightdm to xfce4 the desktop appears with the top panel with clock and sound applet, but then there is a ~5 second delay before the panel continues to load applets and the wallpaper. I've been trying to work out what is causing the delay during xfce4 startup. I've disabled all the auto-start items but the issue remains. Does anybody know how to work out what is causing the system to pause?

Thanks for any help

Fresh Void install: looks like I have an old issue with flacs where songs are interrupted for a second or less. I came from Arch where this bug was fixed after a recent update to some package (maybe pipewire or flac itself?).

I've noticed many Void packages are not in the latest version like on Arch, so maybe I can use a flatpak or other to solve? Thanks for any help on this!

[edit] Looks like the fix is on flac 1.4.2, here the changelogs, Void version is still at 1.3.4

I've "partially solved" the issue using my fav player thru flatpak

I was searching for the password of the live session "anon".

After trying : admin, root, live, void and anon I give up and search on web for that. Found myself on Reddit with deleted answers.

Well, so I'm posting it here, it will probably be useful to others.

• What is the password for "anon" live session please?

• It's simply voidlinux

• Oh yes, quite silly, thanks buddy.

This is probably best not asked here, but here goes.

I've been having this weird problem with AnyDesk. It just simply refuses to open up the Security Settings. How this works in other distros (as well as Windows) is, you click the Unlock Security Settings button and pkexec will just load and ask for root credentials (or in the case of Ubuntu, just your account's credentials) and that's it, the settings will load in a separate window. But, in Void, nothing appears.

I didn't know about this DE till about a few days ago. Seems really smooth and not so complicated as KDE. I really liked it... well, at least on YT videos, lol :D.

Anyhow, if anyone is using it, some tips would be appreciated. Like, does it have it's own file manager, or I can just keep using whatever I am using currently (Thunar, I'm on xfce and I like it, but I haven't found anything that has caught my eye so far, and I took a look at Solus and Budgie and I was like "wow, I really like this :)"). Any things I should watch out for while installing it? What exactly would be the minimal set of packages I would need to get it running.

If you think of anything else that might be sketchy and/or tricky with it, like something specific when configuring Void to load the DE or something like that, do let me know :).

Voidlinux new iso images released.

I learned about Void recently and really liked some of it's features as a distro (simple packaging system, runit services). Just wanted to hear what others like.

It's not much but it's mine.

Dot files are here: https://codeberg.org/JustineSmithies/river-dotfiles

Replacement for lxappearance in wayland compositors now in voidlinux.

https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx 0.2_1 is now available to install through xbps. There is also xbps-src template of swayfx-0.3.