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Linux Beta Packaged for Ubuntu

Submitted by spot on Thu, 2008-06-26 18:56.

Thanks to Erik we now have packages for Electric Sheep and FLAM3. We have created a PPA (Personal Package Archive) on Launchpad. Once you configure your computer to include this PPA, you can install and update Electric Sheep automatically, like the rest of Ubuntu packages in the Synaptic Package Manager.

Just right click on the link to the script, and save it in your home directory. Then open up a terminal (under Applications/Accessories) and type the command "sudo install-electricsheep-package.sh" and press return, then type your root password. The script is very simple, it just adds our PPA to your sources.list, updates, and installs. It should automatically configure your screensaver, but you can also run it from the command line just by typing "electricsheep".

About the new version.

If you prefer to compile and install from source you can use another script, which should also be a guide to getting it to work with other Linux distros.

Once it's in, you can use "electricsheep-preferences" to configure it, including setting your nickname for credit on the server, and the video driver. If mplayer and your X server are properly configured then the default (blank) should work, but if not, anything you pass to "mplayer -vo" can be put here. Common values are "x11", "gl", and "xv".

Browse the new flock, in 800x600x160 mpeg4. It's at 1/10th quality until we have more users, then I'll crank it up.

Bug reports and compatibility issues most welcome, as well as success stories. Please comment below if you try it and let us know what happens.

Thanks!

‹ beta will not work for me I NEED TO GLUE my sad broken sheep (or what the flock...used to be) ›
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help with install and preferances

Submitted by mistere23 on Tue, 2008-11-11 21:00.

I want it to load and save the animations to an old windows partition which it doesn't seem to be doing. I run "electricsheep --save-dir " from command line. Cant find a way to edit it in the preferences program. Any suggestions? This is like one of my favorite apps ever by the way!!

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thanks glad you like it.

Submitted by spot on Tue, 2008-11-11 23:16.

thanks glad you like it. but there's no way to set that from the GUI, just from the command line, sorry. hopefully eventually that will get fixed...

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rendering doesnt work

Submitted by jtp on Sun, 2008-11-09 18:15.

Hi

I just installed via the build from source script.

But apparently I am not rendering, the log show messages like this


entering render loop 1
time do_render Sun Nov 9 23:11:41 2008
get_control_points nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error 'http://v2d7c.sheepserver.net/cgi/get?n=jtp&w=&v=LNX_2.7b11&u=292870D9C58271A4&r=1&c=1' | gunzip -c
please upgrade to the latest client from www.electricsheep.org
nothing to render, will try again later.

Besides from that it does run both as standalone and as screensaver and it is indeed very beautiful :D

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ah thanks for reporting

Submitted by spot on Mon, 2008-11-10 02:04.

ah thanks for reporting that, i had checked the new version into the source tree but not yet updated the server to handle it. should be fixed now.

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thank you

Submitted by jtp on Mon, 2008-11-10 03:57.

thank you for the quick response, now i am rendering.

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this very nice, thank

Submitted by Tanushri on Thu, 2008-11-06 12:48.

this very nice, thank you.

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you are welcome, but please

Submitted by spot on Thu, 2008-11-06 15:16.

you are welcome, but please note that i removed your signature because it seemed too spammy to me.

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--server flag?

Submitted by bchavet on Fri, 2008-08-22 21:07.

Are there plans to include a --server flag like what was in version 2.6?

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2.7 needs two server names,

Submitted by spot on Sat, 2008-08-23 03:17.

2.7 needs two server names, so rather than add another option, i just removed it since there's no other server anyway, this is just a possible source of error. anyone who can set up a server can also change the constant in the C code. so it's partially expedient and partially intentional.

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kde support?

Submitted by g on Thu, 2008-07-03 13:51.

Seems like when I installed this, it was using all sorts of gnome packages, but not a single KDE one. Is this app even supposed to run under KDE? I installed it, and when I run it from the command line, it says:

Terminated.

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i would love it if someone

Submitted by spot on Thu, 2008-07-03 18:14.

i would love it if someone who uses KDE would provide us with patches for a configuration option to support KDE. once that's working we can make a package with that version.

but in the meantime, if you build it from source, and run it from the command line, it should work even on KDE. are you sure you have mplayer installed and working?

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On

Submitted by Doritos on Fri, 2008-06-27 16:14.

On "electricsheep-preferences" there's a "password" field.
Does it already is in use?
Where do I register or something like that?

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the password field hasn't

Submitted by spot on Fri, 2008-06-27 19:57.

the password field hasn't been implemented yet, but it will refer to your account here on the drupal. you should leave it blank now.

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I don't use

Submitted by Doritos on Fri, 2008-06-27 15:12.

I don't use gnome-screensaver, and it's a dependency on this package.

Could you please fix this?
xscreensaver also works flawlessly with electricsheep.

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Any luck with

Submitted by jeenmaz on Fri, 2008-09-12 20:57.

Any luck with this?

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xscreensaver

Submitted by Erik Reckase on Sat, 2008-06-28 08:33.

I'll have a look at this over the weekend if I get the chance.

Erik Reckase
flam3 developer
AIM: flam3dev

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i would happy to see patches

Submitted by spot on Fri, 2008-06-27 20:07.

i would happy to see patches to make the package work with xscreensaver. i think it's not so easy because a whole 'nother package is required. if you compile with the last version in cvs (see sourceforge, we have since moved to svn), and install that, it should work with xscreensaver. i think :) good luck.

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