Installing the Linux version.

[Steve Perry]

I have three old windows computers running XP which have been used solely as adjudication tools at tournaments.  I now find that the new Zyzzyva will not run on these windows laptops.  However I have been told that using the Linux version could be a solution.  I have downloaded the open source version of Zyzzyva 5.1.1, Linux Mint 18, and a file called qt-unified Linux-x64-3.1.1-online.run.  Now what do I do?

[JG Miller]

Steve, there is no Linux version of Collins Zyzzyva with CSW19 (series 5.1) yet.  I am working on getting a Linux distribution out there, and you provide a good motivation for doing so, if it helps Collins Zyzzyva run on older machines.  I would go with Ubuntu 19 however….see the list of Linux distributions supported at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html.  Linux Mint may work, may not.

 

The other issue is whether modern Linux distributions will even run on your old computers….if not, then this won’t work at all.  I suggest trying to install Ubuntu 19 on one of them as a first step.

 

-Jim

 

 

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[Steve Perry]

Thanks Jim.  I will do that and let you know the outcome

Regards

Steve

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[Steve Perry]

Hi Jim

The laptops are 32 bit and it seems that the latest version of ubuntu which supports 32 bit is 16.04.06 (Desktop).  Is it worth me trying that on one of the old laptops.

Regards

Steve

[JG Miller]

Steve, Looking more dicey then, and more work.  Has to be very low priority for me.  If someone on this list wants to try Linux 32 bit support for Collins Zyzzyva, let me know.

 

Jim

 

 

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[Steve Perry]

Hi Jim

I think it’s time to draw a line under this.  My 32 bit machines won’t even boot from a USB drive.  Time to consign them to the scrap heap.  

Thanks anyway

Steve

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[Martin Taylor]

On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 5:16:12 PM UTC+1, jg.millirem wrote:

Steve, there is no Linux version of Collins Zyzzyva with CSW19 (series 5.1) yet.  I am working on getting a Linux distribution out there, and you provide a good motivation for doing so, if it helps Collins Zyzzyva run on older machines.  I would go with Ubuntu 19 however….see the list of Linux distributions supported at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html.  Linux Mint may work, may not.

 

The other issue is whether modern Linux distributions will even run on your old computers….if not, then this won’t work at all.  I suggest trying to install Ubuntu 19 on one of them as a first step.

 

-Jim

 

Hello Jim,

I'm confused then - you're saying there is no Collins Zyzzyva with CSW19 that will run on Linux at present?

Looking at the Collins site it lists Linux first! From the download options I brought the source code down and assumed I'd have to compile it myself (Ubuntu 18.04)

Got Qt5 and tried qmake then make per the readme - didn't work, but then I'm more of an apt-get man, so I don't really know what I'm doing. Guessed that perhaps it was a dependency

thing.

But from your comment above are you saying it won't work full stop?

Thanks,

Martin

 

 

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I have three old windows computers running XP which have been used solely as adjudication tools at tournaments.  I now find that the new Zyzzyva will not run on these windows laptops.  However I have been told that using the Linux version could be a solution.  I have downloaded the open source version of Zyzzyva 5.1.1, Linux Mint 18, and a file called qt-unified Linux-x64-3.1.1-online.run.  Now what do I do?

 

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[Quinn James]

Correct: you can build it yourself, but there isn't a friendly installer. Once I installed all the QT dependencies (and worked around another issue described in the "5.1.1 build from source issue with shared libraries" thread from July -- see Anand's response there for completeness), I got it to function, though not flawlessly, on (64-bit) Linux Mint 18.

A couple of the issues I had: the font for plain-text quiz questions had broken kerning (I decided to use my own custom tile images instead), and the encrypted definitions for CSW15 and 19 wouldn't build (I worked around this by copying the lexicon files in .collinszyzzyva/lexicons from the Windows version, to which I fortunately had access, into Linux.)

It's a little bit of an adventure, if you're not used to compiling stuff from source, but it's possible.

-Quinn

[JG Miller]

Btw the kerning appearance problem appears on all platforms.

-Jim

 

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[Ricky Purnomo]

Noted on the availability of source code for the savvier users. Is there any plans for a friendly installer in the (near) future? Am planning to switch from Windows to Mint, but may not do so if there's a risk I can't resume Zyzzyva there easily.