Veit Kannegieser's repo

[Veit Kannegieser]

Hello nero355,

i will consider extrepo again.
Points to think about would be the how many/which variants/architectures to list there, the category (main?).
On the other hand there is currently work on the build environment to work with Python 3.1x, so maybe a a fully official package (guess SSE2 for AMD64) is also possible.

[nero355]

I will consider extrepo again.

COOL!!!

Points to think about would be the how many/which variants/architectures to list there, the category (main?).

I think that's something to discuss with the guy who made extrepo and ask him what's allowed/possible at the moment ?

In essence it's not that different than the way things are now and if something goes wrong (CPU doesn't support AVX2 or so...) the user gets notified anyway and can still manually change things if needed

On the other hand there is currently work on the build environment to work with Python 3.1x, so maybe a a fully official package (guess SSE2 for AMD64) is also possible.

Brr... Python... Hope it won't break anything!

[solitude]

Hello jarsealer.

The arm64 build is still outdated.

Can not test it, but current dists/mx23_gtk3/main/binary-arm64/Packages gives palemoon_34.2.0-1mx23_arm64.deb.
Older versions had compile problems for arm64.
Please try again.

Been using it for a while no problems.

[Garland]

Thanks Veit for providing Pale Moon builds for Debian distributions. I am using Steve Pusser's builds for MX Linux 25 currently, but I would like to use yours in the near future when I explore other Debian 13 distributions.

I see that you offer a mx23_gtk3 variant. Why is it based on MX-23/Debian 12 when MX-25/Debian 13 is the current version?

This link may be useful to you for all the available MX Pale Moon builds:
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/p/palemoon/

[andyprough]

I see that you offer a mx23_gtk3 variant. Why is it based on MX-23/Debian 12 when MX-25/Debian 13 is the current version?

Not speaking for Veit, but we are usually better off if we can support older versions of Debian that are still actively maintained, such as Debian 12. It shouldn't harm the Debian 13 or MX 25 users at all to be using a version of Pale Moon that is also available for Debian12/MX23.

[Veit Kannegieser]

Yes, exactly - hoped for compatibility.
I used it for a Raspberry Pi 3b at work, which runs 12 "bookworm" based Raspbian. Upgraded Monday/Tuesday to 13 "trixie",
but now fails to install, because of package names changed for 64 bit time_t. And MX25 does have a armhf package..
Will try to install ARM64 OS, which is a bit silly on a 1 GiB model.

[solitude]

Yes, exactly - hoped for compatibility.
I used it for a Raspberry Pi 3b at work, which runs 12 "bookworm" based Raspbian. Upgraded Monday/Tuesday to 13 "trixie",
but now fails to install, because of package names changed for 64 bit time_t. And MX25 does have a armhf package..
Will try to install ARM64 OS, which is a bit silly on a 1 GiB model.

I'd be willing to help out with building PM ARM64 for trixie GTK3 and you can add it to the repo, if you let me know.

[Veit Kannegieser]

Thanks, the ARM64 package from MX should work fine, and is usually build soon after release.

[Veit Kannegieser]

The extrepo-data merge request was accepted.

1. Install extrepo tool if you do not have it yet:

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   sudo apt-get install extrepo

2. Search for repository name:

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   extrepo search palemoon | less

3. Chose only one, like palemoon_sse2_gtk2 or palemoon_avx_gtk3.
   This will create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_palemoon_*_*.sources
   and /var/lib/extrepo/keys/palemoon_*.asc

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   sudo extrepo enable palemoon_avx_gtk3

4. Update+install with apt - as usual:

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   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install palemoon
   

5. Possibly update extrepo data:

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   sudo extrepo update

   or specific

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   sudo extrepo update palemoon_avx_gtk3

6. Disable repo if no longer wanted or before changing to a different repository name:

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   sudo extrepo disable palemoon_avx_gtk3

The installation of extrepo (1) and Pale Moon (4) can be done using graphical or TUI (aptitude) tools.
The extrepo query/enable/disable/update is console only. Only enable (3) is usually needed.

So far it works.

[andyprough]

The extrepo-data merge request was accepted.

Hi Veit, Will this become the required way to access it, or if we already have access through your previous key and repo instructions, will those stay active?

[Veit Kannegieser]

Everything will stay as before.
Extrepo is just a different way to install repository source and PGP key.

[andyprough]

Everything will stay as before.
Extrepo is just a different way to install repository source and PGP key.

Excellent, thank you!

[nero355]

It shouldn't harm the Debian 13 or MX 25 users at all to be using a version of Pale Moon that is also available for Debian12/MX23.

100% AGREE because I am using Debian 13 Trixie for a while now without any issues

I used it for a Raspberry Pi 3b at work, which runs 12 "bookworm" based Raspbian. Upgraded Monday/Tuesday to 13 "trixie",
but now fails to install, because of package names changed for 64 bit time_t. And MX25 does have a armhf package..

Will try to install ARM64 OS, which is a bit silly on a 1 GiB model.

AArch64 is the way forward so in my opinion you are doing yourself a huge favor

Both of my Raspberry Pi 3B models are running the 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS for some time now and I have no plans to go back to the 32-bit version in the future

The extrepo-data merge request was accepted.

AWESOME!!!

From now on in each new Debian install I will be installing Pale Moon that way

[solitude]

The palemoon_mx23_gtk3 arm64 version is still on 34.2.2. The latest 34.3.1 released 8 days ago. I know Veit Kannegieser isn't the packager for this version, I wouldn't know where to contact the maintainer, but I'm considering building PM from source with every new version now.

[andyprough]

The palemoon_mx23_gtk3 arm64 version is still on 34.2.2. The latest 34.3.1 released 8 days ago. I know Veit Kannegieser isn't the packager for this version, I wouldn't know where to contact the maintainer, but I'm considering building PM from source with every new version now.

Veit Kannegieser's repo pulls those builds from Steve Pusser from MX Linux. You can look at Steve's repo here to see what's been built: https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/p/palemoon/

You can contact Steve at the MX Linux forum, you would want to register an account there and then make a new post in the "Package Requests" sub-forum for Steve: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewforum.php ... a8d692121f

If he's unable to build the latest version on ARM for some reason, he should respond to you there and let you know the problem. You can also ask his advice there if you have any questions about building it yourself on ARM.