dolphin_oracle's respins (updated June 23, 2024)

[asqwerth]

@asqwerth
Any suggestions? I just searched for a site that was free to use then used it. I didn't see anything bad like porn or excessive ads.

I'm not stating that you have to upload on a different download site.

I'm suggesting that it is best to open a new thread and post your download links there. You can explain that your iso respin was based on dolphin's, but that you modded certain things which you should list.

That way, forum users know what your iso was based on, but are also aware it was done by another member, not dolphin. That's what I mean by "source" - it's your iso, not dolphin's.

[je55eah]

My name is on it, so I don't think anyone thought dolphin posted it. Next time, perhaps.

[je55eah]

Here is another update of dolphin_oracle's systemd respin. This time I have enabled the ahs repositories and installed the 6.1 kernel. The normal firefox version is installed, as opposed to the lts version. Fluxbox has also been installed and configure to resemble XFCE, which is still installed. A few of the buttons from the sidebar have been moved to the taskbar and the sidebar has been disabled. A show desktop button has been added to the lower right corner of the taskbar. The desktop icon link to the tutorial videos was moved to the start menu. Compton has been enabled to to fix conky transparency issues. alt-p has been set as a shortcut to create screenshots. The special keys for led backlights have been enabled. Tap to click has been disabled for the left button on the touchpad. I created a desktop file that opens the fluxbox menu and ctrl-esc can also be used to open that menu.

https://easyupload.io/hyihix
md5:
de09d9564cefe5f563c53d91753bff1e MXsystemd20230416.iso

This not being published by dolphin_oracle, I am publishing it here because it is not a significant departure from the systemd respin he shared. I moved a few buttons and ran some updates.

[Be OK]

I wil try the dolphin systemd respin as a live usb,why only because vpn,s this case proton all want systemd :(
So far no succes, boots to standard MX, make a fresh live usb to much tries feeling if i keep failing wil make a new topic.

[a_freed_man]

I would like to use the pystemd python library to restart a systemd service within my application but pip can't install it due to a missing dependency or PKG "mis"configuration (it can't find libsystemd.pc). PyCharm IDE can't install it nor can I as root.

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Collecting pystemd
  Using cached pystemd-0.13.2.tar.gz (308 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [5 lines of output]
      Package libsystemd was not found in the pkg-config search path.
      Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd.pc'
      to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
      No package 'libsystemd' found
      `pkg-config --modversion libsystemd` failed. Please ensure all prerequisite packages from README.md are installed.
      [end of output]

I found some version and added them to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env var but it didn't help.
root-# find . -type f | grep libsystemd
./systemd/libsystemd-shared-247.so
./x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0.30.0

I'm booted with systemd with this respin.

[baldyeti]

MX21/bullseye has both libsystemd-dev and python3-systemd

[a_freed_man]

MX21/bullseye has both libsystemd-dev and python3-systemd

Thanks for the reply. I installed both of those packages and yet still cannot install the pystemd package with pip3.

I'm not locked into using pystemd if I could find any python3 library / package that allows me to start / stop / status existing systemd units natively without spawning a subprocess. Most of the packages I can find info for provide access to logs & status, but no control over running units.

Nothing in this description of python3-systemd tells me it can replace the functionality I need from systemctl for example. It may provide the status of units I need, but not control of them.

How can I do what this guy describes natively without using a command line subprocess? That's what brought me to pystemd.

I resolved the problem. Not sure if I needed the other 2 packages you mentioned, but after installing those I still needed python3-dev. After installing that pip was able to build the wheels to success.

[baldyeti]

Glad you solved it - you probably do not need the 2 packages i suggested, i thought systemd-dev might be a requirement for compiling your C extension, but as you've mentioned python3-dev was likely the missing bit.

[fan_of_LTS]

I wil try the dolphin systemd respin as a live usb,why only because vpn,s this case proton all want systemd

If I understand you correctly, you seem to be under the impression that Proton VPN needs systemd. I use Proton VPN and do not use systemd. I haven't noticed any issues with MX 21 but on MX 23 we don't have the library they use to put the icon in the systray. The VPN works fine though.

[a_freed_man]

@dolphin_oracle - Will you be making a new systemd only respin for MX Linux 23? I sure hope so, as I require systemd AND persistence for USB booted live systems.