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Topic: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

My suggestion is to include the packages: inxi, mesa-utils, and gawk

gawk and mesa-utils are both in the ubuntu repos, and inxi can be gotten here:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1133.html
or by putting this into terminal:
cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/inxi && chmod +x inxi

inxi is an excellent source for information on your computer. attached is an "inxi -v5" output which is the most verbose, it shows a bit of what inxi is capable of.

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This is extremely important for people posting questions here or on IRC. we can simply say, "Oh you have a video card error, what is your video card? run "inxi -G" in terminal and tell us the output. It will promptly display the Video Card.

I hope that this gets put in as it will be extremely useful, and takes up almost null space.

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  • Registered: 2008-12-13
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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

awk and nawk are installed by default, they have most of the functionality of gawk. Inxi looks interesting, thanks for pointing it out.

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  • From: Florida
  • Registered: 2009-07-17
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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

yes they are, however for some reason, with inxi, it requires gawk. go figure, may be able to be changed in the code somehow, but easiest way is to just install gawk.

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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

The latest release of Linux Mint 7 XFCE included it - and it works nice on my wifes machine - a nifty little tool.
Right in the spirit of #! I reckon.

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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

on my system (presumably standard on ubuntu aswell) awk and nawk are just links to mawk, im sure just adding a link for gawk would work.

inixi looks interesting

EDIT just searched and replaced gawk with awk in the script and still seems to work

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  • Registered: 2008-11-24
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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

Part of the smxi project... smxi is a fantastic upgrade tool that I have used for all my Debian builds. Originally part of sidux before they parted ways. smxi doesn't work with Ubuntu-based distros though. sad

  • Registered: 2009-09-28
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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

inxi -F

+1, used, functional, unconditional support :)

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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

Thanks for the link to inxi. Its very useful.

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  • From: Orléans - France
  • Registered: 2009-09-03
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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

Inxi is very interresting, thanks for sharing smile smile

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Re: Suggestion for next Release: INXI

gawk is required in inxi because it uses gensub, a gawk only function as far as I  know. I think there's one other gawk only feature used in inxi as well, but I can't remember exactly, but the decision to add the gawk dependency was not random or an accident, it's required. For full support, there's actually a few other dependencies as well, but those are optional, the features just won't work if those packages are missing. The comment header says what those are I believe, or is it inxi -h ? I think -h shows it too.

Working around that dependency was too much of a pain so we decided to just use gawk and have that full functionality in gawk, gensub was very useful.

I don't know anything about other awks, but if they support that function they might work, but again, I don't remember all the gawk specific stuff in there, but I wouldn't change it if I were you, that's just asking for weird bug reports in the future.

Thanks for looking at inxi, it is fun, and a nice feature for IRC and forum support.

For Konversation native support see the irc.oft.net #smxi factoids: !inxi-kde3 and !inxi-kde4 those show how to make the links you need to get /inxi -F type support in konversation.

Also see smxi.org for more information on inxi, as well as the inxi svn and wiki. Thanks, Harald Hope Trash80.

cathbard who can be found on irc.oftc.net #linux-smokers-club packages inxi into a deb, which is I believe what Mint uses now, so the deb should show you all the dependencies and recommends. You can ask him, if he's around on that channel.

Last edited by h2 (2009-10-09 06:17:39)