Jacman v0.4 released

arooaroo · 2006-12-08 11:13:19

Ho ho ho! Happy Christmas!

The only thing I can contribute to the AL community is Jacman. It's been a quiet year (last update was in January!). So here's v0.4 to bring some sparkle and joy to December.

What's New in 0.4?

Nothing too major - largely cosmetic changes. I like to ensure Jacman stays well ahead in the eye candy department. It's not all bling, however. Here's a quick summary:
* New look and feel to the whole application. I think the theme is a lot lighter and
fresher. Look out for nice roll-over effects in tables, lists, buttons (especially with icons), etc, etc.
* More filtering options for install dialog.
* Improved search/filtering performance.
* Install and Update dialogs have coloured columns indicate whether packages are up-to-date or now (a la distrowatch).
* Improved and tweaked a few of other little bits-and-bobs under the hood.

For screenshots, go to the Jacman project page: http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/jacman/index.html

It'll probably take a few days until this update makes its way to the community repository. In the mean time:

Binary pacman package
PKGBUILD

Happy holidays

noriko · 2006-12-08 21:18:50

looking good x)
when back on my pc i will test it ..
maybe this is the time i start using a gui, i find it nicer to search pkgs this way..
certainly beats searching the website first lol ..

does it install fro aur by any chance? that'd be super cool

arooaroo · 2006-12-08 21:39:11

noriko wrote:

looking good x)
when back on my pc i will test it ..
maybe this is the time i start using a gui, i find it nicer to search pkgs this way..
certainly beats searching the website first lol ..
does it install fro aur by any chance? that'd be super cool

AUR support has been something I've been wanting to implement for ages. The problem is that the AUR database is not made readily available to third party tools like pacman GUIs, which is shame.

Every AUR build tool I've seen generally relies on the user knowing upfront which package they want to query/install. To make it worthwhile doing in Jacman, I'd like to follow the style for the official repos which is to let the user browse/search through all the available packages.

Once DB access, whether it be read-only direct access to the DB, or a text-file export hosted on a server somewhere, then I'll get stuck in with a AUR integration in Jacman.

tardo · 2006-12-08 21:41:52

well... http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
This will list out all packages, but i don't think it's very efficient by any means...

lucke · 2006-12-08 21:48:20

Pacman3 is drawing nearer - providing libalpm with java bindings. You might want to fiddle a bit with that (stab phrakture in the left eye, if you're eager).

arooaroo · 2006-12-08 23:07:48

tardo wrote:

well... http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
This will list out all packages, but i don't think it's very efficient by any means...

Oh yeah, I've known about this for ages. I think it's a nasty hack. It would be rather inefficient. Assuming you want to see more than just a list of package names, then it would also be rather inefficient to crawl through the entire listing, parsing the PKGBUILDs. And after all that you still don't have half the info that appears on the equivalent AUR page.

arooaroo · 2006-12-08 23:09:48

lucke wrote:

Pacman3 is drawing nearer - providing libalpm with java bindings. You might want to fiddle a bit with that (stab phrakture in the left eye, if you're eager).

Yeah, I intend to create a Java wrapper around libalpm once it's stable. That said, Jacman's going ok at the moment without it. I didn't think that pacman3 would have any AUR support and so it's unlikely to help with this particular situation.

Still, I'm looking forward to using the official library rather than my reimplementation of certain package crawling routines.

soniX · 2006-12-10 17:38:12

Congrats on putting out a new release Andy...
The new LnF is really slick...
Guess that swing-bling'ing of yours is showing

RajivNair · 2006-12-18 14:08:47

Im not able to get it up & running.Here's the error:-

[root@Rajiv-Nair rajiv]# jacman
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jvnet/substance/skin/SubstanceCremeLookAndFeel

arooaroo · 2006-12-18 17:38:53

How did you install it?

RajivNair · 2006-12-18 17:47:37

from the repository
'pacman -S jacman'

Ryujin · 2006-12-18 18:46:55

Same problem here, is there a package for the cream look and feel, of should that be part of the jre?

CavalierBob · 2006-12-18 19:36:51

RajivNair wrote:

Im not able to get it up & running.Here's the error:-
[root@Rajiv-Nair rajiv]# jacman
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jvnet/substance/skin/SubstanceCremeLookAndFeel

Same error here as well.

Bob

dtw · 2006-12-18 19:55:54

Aroo, you better email me when you fix this please, mate! Sorry for the pkg update delay!

arooaroo · 2006-12-18 20:35:03

The problem is that I don't have control of jacman on the AUR. There has obviously been a bit of a communication problem and I must have forgot to give dtw the new jacman.sh file.

If you used the Jacman package on my web site then you would be fine because everything was built correctly there.

Dibble, the fix is to update the AUR CVS to include the new shell script, that's all.
http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/ja … /jacman.sh

My pkgbuild, for the record was:
http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/ja … 4/PKGBUILD

dtw · 2006-12-18 22:00:56

All sorted.

I'll know better next time. Sorry for the screw-ups all!

RajivNair · 2006-12-19 01:55:05

Hey arooaroo,
I tried replacing the contents of /usr/bin/jacman with the contents of jacman.sh from your site but im still getting a error

[root@Rajiv-Nair rajiv]# jacman
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: andyr/jacman/Jacman

CavalierBob · 2006-12-19 02:13:32

I installed the pkg arooarro linked to in his post. Jacman works fine now.

@ arooaroo - is there a jacman icon somewhere? Can't find it in the usual places (/usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons), yet I can see that there is an icon for the window menu and the system tray. Can you point me to it so I can use for my launcher I created in the Gnome menu?

Thanks!

Bob

Snowman · 2006-12-19 03:25:31

CavalierBob wrote:

I installed the pkg arooarro linked to in his post. Jacman works fine now.
@ arooaroo - is there a jacman icon somewhere? Can't find it in the usual places (/usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons), yet I can see that there is an icon for the window menu and the system tray. Can you point me to it so I can use for my launcher I created in the Gnome menu?
Thanks!
Bob

Icons are in /usr/share/jacman/icons/

CavalierBob · 2006-12-19 05:20:01

Snowman wrote:

Icons are in /usr/share/jacman/icons/

Hmm, I have no directories in /usr/share/jacman. Just have jacman-0.4.jar, that's all. :shock:

I installed from arooaroo's pkg.tar.gz using pacman -A jacman-0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz to install (not that this should make any difference).

Odd. :?

Bob

Snowman · 2006-12-19 06:51:01

I just realized that these files don't belong to any packages. Probably I extrated the files in the jacman.jar directly on my system...

To get the icons, copy the jacman.jar in a temp location and run:
jar -xf jacman.jar
There will then be an icons directory. Copy the icons you want in /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons
Maybe arooaroo or dtw will make a new packages with the icons included.

arooaroo · 2006-12-19 08:02:28

Indeed. Everything is in the jar file (which is simply a zip file for those not familiar with Java) so you can grab everything there.

For the next release I'll try and ensure I do some stuff with icons folders and .desktop files, etc.

Skatox · 2006-12-19 14:50:36

Jacman doen't work for me if i'm using Beryl.

arooaroo · 2006-12-19 15:19:12

Skatox wrote:

Jacman doen't work for me if i'm using Beryl.

This is a more fundamental issue with Java, rather than Jacman-specific.

See if the tip in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight= is useful. I don't use any fancy 3d stuff, and given how experimental it is it seems to be something of a moving target.

CavalierBob · 2006-12-19 17:46:32

Snowman wrote:

I just realized that these files don't belong to any packages. Probably I extrated the files in the jacman.jar directly on my system...
To get the icons, copy the jacman.jar in a temp location and run:
jar -xf jacman.jar
[snipped]

This is becoming a comedy for me!

Ran the above command from a terminal as user & root and get 'bash: jar: command not found' both times.

Odd again. :?

I'm doing something wrong. My Java-based apps work, so I would think the PATH is OK. Ideas????

And Gnome's archive manager does not recognize the *.jar files as valid, even though the mime type is registered.

My JRE is 1.5 from the Extra repo...no JDK installed.

Thanks!

Bob

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