April, April… and the April almost gone… What’s up? – rebuilt Calamares to disable LUKS in autopartitioning option – Sparky builds based on upcoming Debian stable Stretch are set now, the live system uses Calamares instead of the old ‘live-installer’ – Budgie Desktop removed from Sparky repos – it is available from Debian repos now … Read more
The QT 5.7.0 doesn’t support GTK theming, so after upgrade Qt related packages, the Qt based applications look… not really nice on GTK based desktops. How to fix it: sudo apt update sudo apt install qt5-style-plugins Then: sudo nano /etc/environment and past into the file: QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 then: sudo reboot That’s all. The first screen shows … Read more
The time goes fast and the next month almost gone… So, what changed? – the latest development iso image 4.6-dev20170307 was shipped with Calamares 3.1, with support of installation on 32 and 64 bit BIOS/UEFI machines – some Sparky packages have been updated to version 4~YYYYMMDD and landed in Sparky’s “stable” repository, to be ready … Read more
This short tutorial shows you how to switch Sparky based on Debian testing “Stretch” to upcoming Debian stable “Stretch”. It’s for users whose prefer rock solid stability of Debian stable over never packages provide be Debian testing. So, you do not have to do that, if you stay on testing branch. 1. Change Debian repository … Read more
New development iso images of Sparky 4.6-dev20170307 MinimalGUI are ready for testing. Changelog: – all packages updated from Debian (frozen, but still testing) Stretch repositories as of March 07, 2017; – Calamares 3.1; – fixed installation on UEFI machines issue; it installs the efi-grub debs offline (no internet connection needed), in the same way … Read more