[arm-allstar] How to install Screen

Sun Dec 27 01:25:45 EST 2015

Doug,
OK, I followed your link and found a few archived files for Screen. I
selected this one:
screen-4.3.1-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz
and being the curious sort opted to use wget and then open it from cd /
, with tar -xvf screen-4.3.1-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz , instead of using
pacman -U like I knew I should have.  Worked out fine.  Screen seems to
run as it should and the directory structure seems fine in the /usr
directory.  Next time I'll use pacman -U.

I went the wrong way on the first attempt. Knew better to, but just
wasn't thinking right about the install method. This ARCH linux isn't so
different from Debian, just using different syntax for the parameter
settings. 

And of course I have time to play! This is Ham Radio after all, it is
leisure time activity.

Thank you for the archive link.
73,
Ron Morell
KA7U

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to install Screen
From: Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com>
Date: Sat, December 26, 2015 6:54 pm
To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>

 Ron,

 It is always fun to play if you have time. Here is a link to archived
system code. You might find what you want there,

http://fraggod.net/static/mirror/packages/archlinuxarm/armv7h/

Packages can be installed from a local folder with pacman.

pacman -U /download_path/packagename.tar.xz

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

From: ron at morell.us
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:33:18 -0700
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to install Screen

Doug,
Thanks for the suggestions. When you have putty windows open and the
computer loses power or the gateway connections drops, then those
processes still exist on the computer you were connected to. If you had
opened Screen from the Bash shells in the ssh connections, you would be
able to reconnect and reattach those screens as though the connection
were never lost. Or of course you could use ps -u root and close those
processes down and/or possibly reboot.  Screen is also useful for
collaboration with another person by sharing the named screen terminal. 

You are right, what have I got to lose except some writes to a spare
SanDisk card.
73,
Ron Morell
KA7U

  -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to install Screen
 From: Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com>
 Date: Sat, December 26, 2015 12:47 pm
 To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>

 Ron,

  What often happens when trying to load new packages is that the base
packages are not up to date. Doing a complete update can break things
and would require a dahdi recompile.

In lieu of screen you know you can open as many windows as you want in
putty or winscp on a remote system. I generally have 6 or more putty
windows open, to different or the same servers.

However if you do want to play I would suggest making a backup of your
image to another SD card. One you can boot up and play with and if you
break something it is no big deal. You can't hurt anything.

On the backup card when you download a package and it gives you an error
try  - pacman -Sy <package-name>
This should work but in some rare occasions could break things.

If you get it working and everything seems to work you can just use that
image. You always have a backup (your original) to use if a problem
arises. 

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

> From: ron at morell.us
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:03:34 -0700
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to install Screen
> 
> Operating impulsively here... 
> 
> I found this:
> http://lists.hamvoip.org/pipermail/arm-allstar/2014-June/000078.html
> And so updated my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist so pacman might install. But,
> gee, Screen needs libncursesw.so.6 and I'm pretty certain I need to
> install ncurses to get that file. That might be a deal breaker for
> AllStar. 
> 
> I'm going to stop my pursuit of Screen until I get advice from competent
> help. Hi Hi
> 73
> Ron Morell
> KA7U
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: How to install Screen
> From: <ron at morell.us>
> Date: Sat, December 26, 2015 10:51 am
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> 
> I would like to use screen on the AllStar node. This is the result when
> I try to install it from packages.
> 
> [root at allstar-ka7u ~]# pacman -S screen
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
> 
> Packages (1) screen-4.2.1-3
> 
> Total Download Size: 0.45 MiB
> Total Installed Size: 0.80 MiB
> 
> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
> :: Retrieving packages ...
> error: failed retrieving file 'screen-4.2.1-3-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz' from
> mirror.archlinuxarm.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
> warning: failed to retrieve some files
> error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
> [root at allstar-ka7u ~]# 
> 
> I find the Screen rpm here:
> http://fraggod.net/static/mirror/packages/archlinuxarm/armv7h/
> But don't know if I should do it...
> 
> I'm not sure if dependencies will break the AllStar node and so don't
> want to force the issue. But if there is a proper way to install Screen
> without upsetting the balance of files for AllStar, I would be
> interested in hearing about it.
> Ron Morell
> KA7U
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