Install Splashy on Debian Stable (Etch)
I know there are many people who do not like the slow development process of the Debian Linux Operating System (O.S) just like me. People who use stable distribution of Debian miss on lots of new featured-rich packages as compared to users of other Linux O.S. The reason why people still stick to the stable Debian system is because of its rock-solid stability.
One of the packages that is missing from the current Debian Stable release (Etch) is “splashy“.
Here are detailed instructions which explains how to install latest Splashy package on your Etch system:
Splashy is a native Debian package, so all you need to do is to download the current sources, untar and then build a .deb package from the untarred sources.
Step 1:
Go to http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/splashy and download the three source files namely
splashy_0.3.8-1.dsc
splashy_0.3.8.orig.tar.gz
splashy_0.3.8-1.diff.gz
into a folder say /usr/src/root/splashy_build
or you can use “wget” command also like this:
debian# wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/…/splashy…{dsc,tar.gz}
Step 2:
Give the following commands:
cd /usr/src/splashy_build
dpkg-source -x splashy*.dsc
cd splashy-VERSION (in this example, VERSION=3.8-1)
debuild -uc -us
cd ..
dpkg -i splashy*.deb libsplashy*.deb
Step 3:
Test your splashy by giving command:
debian# splashy test
You should be able to see a Tux image and a progress bar.
Step 4:
Add the following line:
splash vga=791 quiet
in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file
Your line should read something like this:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro splash vga=791 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
This will enable the splashy to start whenever you boot your system. Without the above line your splashy simply wouldn’t work.
What if you get error messages when you boot your system or you are not able to run splashy at all?
Don’t worry chances are that you will run into Splashy error messages on Debian Etch if you are not using an initrd/initramfs image. Please refer to Issue #1 - Splashy not working; Splashy Error Messages during boot in my blog entry.
Hope this helps.
As usual, please leave a comment/feedback.
Tags: Error, etch install, Splashy
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
“Please refer to Issue #1 - Splashy not working; Splashy Error Messages during boot in my blog entry.”
links to
http://evolvingminds.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/gnulinux-debian-issues-solutionresolved/
which is a dead link so not really helpful at all :/
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Actually I moved my blogging site from http://evolvingminds.wordpress.com to http://blogs.koolwal.net.
I think this is what you are looking for:
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/02/26/gnulinux-debian-issues-solutionresolved/
Let me know if that worked for you or not.
Thanks
July 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Thank you for your guide.
Now the splashy version is the 0.3.10
I tried to compile in etch with
debuild -uc -us
but I have this error:
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libdirectfb-dev (>= 1.0.1-9)
Can you give help me please ?
Where can I find a old version ?
July 7th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Hi Fabio,
You can download the splashy 0.3.8 from here:
http://blogs.koolwal.net/wp-content/uploads/splashy/
October 16th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Schreiber einer Rezession nicht verstehen, die behaupten er kann keine festen Schrauben loesen… also den, den ich habe kann das.
Erstes Einsatzgebiet nach dem Kauf war das abnehmen einer Unterkonstruktion einer Holzdecke. Hat voll durchgehalten und mir die Arbeit sehr erleichtert.
Andy