Installing Plasticity (deb)

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Installed and running alien

> ```
> rpm -ivh plasticity-24.1.7-2.x86_64.rpm
> Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
> Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
>         file /usr/bin from install of plasticity-24.1.7-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.16-2.el9.x86_64
>         file /usr/lib from install of plasticity-24.1.7-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.16-2.el9.x86_64
> Unable to install at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 58.
> 
> 
> [yani@maud Desktop]$ sudo rpm -i plasticity-24.1.7-2.x86_64.rpm
> [sudo] password for yani: 
>         file /usr/bin from install of plasticity-24.1.7-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.16-2.el9.x86_64
>         file /usr/lib from install of plasticity-24.1.7-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.16-2.el9.x86_64
> ```

I tried installing with a --force and that got it to start a black screen at least.

Any clues?

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First a note: ‘dnf’ can install packages, no reason to use ‘rpm’.

For what platform has that package been built for?

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deb

I read a previous post here that suggested converting to RPM with Alien.

I’ll try DNF.

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Did I get this right? Clearly not.

[yani@maud Desktop]$ sudo dnf install --installroot /home/yani/Desktop plasticity_24.1.7_amd64.deb
Unable to detect release version (use ‘–releasever’ to specify release version)
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $releasever - x86_64 14 kB/s | 132 kB 00:09
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘epel’:

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Why do you try to install the deb package, not the rpm one?
Also, somehow on their webpage only the deb package is linked to download.
Within the documentation and on their github you can find the rpm package. Maybe you should try this one instead.
Download and Installation - Plasticity Manual
Releases · nkallen/plasticity (github.com)

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Thanks, I appreciate the help. Downloading now… I assume that RPM will work perfectly, I’ll let you know.

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I’m not sure what this means…

[yani@maud Desktop]$ sudo dnf install --installroot  /home/yani/Desktop Plasticity-24.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm  
[sudo] password for yani: 
Unable to detect release version (use '--releasever' to specify release version)
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $releasever - x86_64                                                                   820  B/s | 132 kB     02:44    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel':
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 67.219.144.68)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 2604:1580:fe00:0:dead:beef:cafe:fed1)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 2406:da12:0:c10:ce4f:44af:c7b4:3a88)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 67.219.144.68)
[yani@maud Desktop]$ distroverpkg
bash: distroverpkg: command not found...


[yani@maud Desktop]$ sudo dnf install --releasever 9.4 --installroot  /home/yani/Desktop Plasticity-24.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm  
[sudo] password for yani: 
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9.4 - x86_64                                                                           4.9 kB/s | 132 kB     00:26    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel':
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.4&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 2406:da1a:fcb:2f01:f381:af1a:f922:c519)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.4&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 2620:52:3:1:dead:beef:cafe:fed6)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.4&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 13.233.179.58)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.4&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=pub/rocky (IP: 2620:52:3:1:dead:beef:cafe:fed6)
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I think this works…

sudo dnf install --releasever 9 --installroot /home/yani/Desktop Plasticity-24.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm -v

–releasever 9 and not 9.4 as I’d tried.

Installing: Plasticity
Installing dependencies: Install 311 Packages

If you need to do this here is the base command

sudo dnf install --releasever (the whole version of Linux number) --installroot /whereitis Plasticity-(version number).x86_64.rpm -v

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Computer says no and delivers a black box. I logged into X11 and it was the same.

Am I past issues Linux related and need to take this to their forum?

yani@maud ~]$ plasticity 
22:32:14.439 › MAIN: Process starting...
22:32:14.465 › MAIN: Application version 24.1.7
22:32:14.466 › MAIN: ...Process started

(plasticity:2284645): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:32:14.557: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-x is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(plasticity:2284645): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:32:14.557: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:69:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-y is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(plasticity:2284645): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:32:14.558: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:73:46: The style property GtkScrolledWindow:scrollbars-within-bevel is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9223/devtools/browser/51088ae8-89b2-4d47-bc98-8dbfd8284732
22:32:14.619 › MAIN: App ready
22:32:14.927 › MAIN: Main window loaded
[2284689:0718/223218.718251:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[2284689:0718/223224.640855:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
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Why are you setting --installroot ? That doesn’t sound right. That means install it into your home directory. And why specify the release version?

You should just be able to do

sudo dnf install ./Plasticity-24.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm

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Release version because something can’t identify the release when you run the installer. There is a message.

Unable to detect release version (use '--releasever' to specify release version)

–installroot is me thinking that is the directory of where the files exist. That’s my Linux ID 10 T error.

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I think your epel repository seems to be somehow messed up. It looks on Fedora mirrors, which I doubt is correct for Rocky Linux.

Of course for help on how to get the program running once installed, you should go to the program’s Manufacturer site!

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No. What's EPEL, and how do I use it? explains:

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a special interest group (SIG) from the Fedora Project that provides a set of additional packages for RHEL (and CentOS, and others) from the Fedora sources.

There is no “separate EPEL” for each distro. Just one (at Fedora Project) that RHEL, Rocky, AlmaLinux, etc users can use.

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Plasticity help is…

“Ubuntu is the only Linux distro supported.”

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