Sabayon and Rigo, Bye Bye Sulfur

wolfden
2012-04-06 8:59:32

Rigo has become available in the entropy store finally.  So what is this talk of Rigo you may ask, it’s a replacement of Sulfur.  Sulfur will no longer exist in the future so Rigo will be the new and improved GUI package manager for entropy store.  I really never was a fan of Sulfur, but than I’m not really a fan of GUI package managers anyway.  This is my first look at Rigo.  Keep in mind that Rigo is still in development to only get better and better.  So to give it a whirl and install it via equo install rigo.  Click images for larger version (Note: Rigo is early stages of Development yet)

  •  Upon launch it comes up and checks for updates

Rigo on Launch

  •  Clicking on Show gives me the list of updates and I can now click on Update System

Updates to Apply

  • I have a license to agree too, very simple and straight forward

Rigo Package License Agreement

  • Now Rigo is off and running as it tells me it is in progress

Rigo is Updating

  •  You might not believe it and want proof so you click on Show me and now you can see it’s downloading the packages

Rigo Update Progress

  • Downloading completes and now it’s installing updates

Rigo Installing Updates

  • After updates are installed it tells you it has upgraded your system successfully.

Rigo Done With Updates

So lets take a look at just doing an individual Package.  Back at the home screen I simply type the package I am looking for.


Looking for Firefox

So now firefox has come up, I can click on it to go right to Install or view more info.  (In this case I have firefox installed already so instead of a remove button it would be a install button.)  So you can see here that you can do same steps to remove a package.


Package Options

So clicking on More Info gets you a ton more of information and from here you can click the Install button.


Package Information

Installing


Rigo Installing Firefox

Installed succesfully


Rigo is Finished

I would like to note that I ran all this off of the Live version of Sabayon Forensics and Rigo ran smoothly. Normally if I start up Sulfur on the live session Sulfur becomes unresponsively slow, so seeing Rigo fire right up and working instantly is very sweet.

Remember, Rigo is still early stages yet and features to come yet.  So if you give it a try and see things missing, just hold on as it’s coming.

Comments

Submitted by v3ss0n on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 11:12

Rigo is faster more responsive , yes thats good.
but man , Sabayon is not a mobile OS .. we dont need a mobile interface. Rigo do not even allow us to browse packages , just Search and install ? Thats all ?

Sulfur let us browse Packages in categories , multi-select them and install them at-once , where are those functionality now? Nowadays Desktop applications are more and more like Mobile apps. In mobile apps i understand the need of lesser interactions coz they are very limited in terms of screen estate and input options , interfaces like Rigo works well. But i do not want a mobile app on my laptop , its just don't work.

So can you atleast add some more interactions ?
- Allow us to browse packages
- Allow us to atleast backup and restore entropy database.

Submitted by Drmgiver on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 19:21

Looks like the only "improvement" is more colors. Yeh no, this has to have a lot of work done on it to replace sulfer.

Submitted by sabayonino on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 11:54

I tried Rigo.

now you can append the various packages by browsing (very cool)

I hope the inclusion of a button with the "--pretend" or "--ask" options to see what will be installed and among the many desires, a nice button to mask/unmask any packages

Now you can't manage repositories lists.

I suggest you mark it as "installed" a package even if it was not selected using a different colorr.

keep it simple is a good idea , but some functions are necessary for a more demanding user.

Thanks for the work you are doing :)

Submitted by msdobrescu on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 16:35

Hello,

Please, let the man to implement his vision. Do not discourage him! ;)
If we need some app rewritten to be faster and more intelligent, let's do it!
But, please, make Rigo have at least the current Sulfur features.

Thank you!

Submitted by jasohall on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 17:56

I think rigo is a definite step forward. I love the ability to append packages and download while I search. This may be the best gui package manager setup I've used just for simplicity and speed. I do agree it should have all of the sulfur features, and I'd love a --deep option somewhere in there for metas, but I trust you'll make it all work :).

Submitted by mélodie on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:18

Hi,
I am happy to see that a new gui is being built, with the idea of having it faster and smoother than Sulfur. I am looking forward to more features in it as several in their comments said necessary. I would even love to have a program such as the software center which is used in Ubuntu, which I talked about in the forum lately. (Where we can browse apps category by category, see full descriptions, and install - see the pic in the post, if you wish : https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=26655&p=148267#p148267).

I'll join in to help translate to French ASAP. ;-)

Best thoughts, and thanks for this wonderful new equo frontend,
mélodie

Submitted by mélodie on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 00:03

Hi,
I have installed it and didn't find a menu entry. So I started it from a user console. I could use the search field to browse apps, but no other entry to features. As I had already updated in Sulfur before installing, I had no other choice, and no categories showing, so I had to enter key words such as "music", or "games" to get a list. I have installed miro, and was prompted for the root password at the right moment. I think it is useful as it is (provided we come many to translate), but I would not yet see it replace Sulfur ?

I have found after closing it that some processes where still running because I could not restart it. It keeps stating another package manager is already running. It was the same after closing Sulfur, I had to kill half a dozen python processes by hand before being able to start rigo.

Is there any additional test which would need to be done at that stage ?

Submitted by elias-train on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 18:26

After the last upgrade (terminal) I had a question about removing "things". I replied "y" & after that I lost almost everything (subject). I can boot my laptop (msi vr220) in safety mode ONLY BUT I can't install, update, upgrade .... No sulfur, No Rigo, ... anything to "fix" my system (sabayon 6 Gnome). This moment I use a "live dvd" that works nicelly. Any subjection?

Submitted by stupot on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 15:28

elias-train,

This blog isn't the right place to ask that question. Try asking at the sabayon forums.

Submitted by EvilCow on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 13:49

Well, the window is pretty.

Now, there is a little thing that most people get wrong when talking about "minimalism": Minimalism should be achieved by refinement of functions and usability. id est, you do more with less. but looks like you've got the definition from the Gnome guys where they define "Minimalism" as "Lacking features."

I'm sorry, this comment may be a little harsh. I appreciate the effort and hopefully we are going in a nicer direction with Rigo but frankly there is just so much work to do, so in the meanwhile at least leave sulfur available in the repos! you are making me use equo for a global update and some fresh installs. Since there is no muli-select. Just for that I will put some Tabasco in your coffee when you aren't looking !

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