How to enable the desktop mode for the convergence use case?

marc_aurel

It seems, that the container is installed, but I can't install the Desktop Apps Scope like decsibed in the UBports documentation:

Lakotaubp

@marc_aurel you don't need to it's already there. Go to apps scope, Pull up on little white inverted v/arrow and it's there.

marc_aurel

Perfekt. I found thus scope. Thanks very much for your help. Now I have to find a way to install a desktop app.

Is this only posiible by pushing an rpm file, say from OpenOffice, to the phone with adb and then triggering the installation within the adb shell?

libertine-container-manager install-package -p PACKAGE-NAME

I realized, that I can't download rpm files from the browser. I get an error message from Sourceforge for downloading OpenOffice.

dobey

You cannot install rpm packages really. You can also only install packages which are built for the armhf architecture. If you want to install LibreOffice for example, you would use libertine-container-manager install-package -p libreoffice or you can use the GUI in System Settings to install any package in the Ubuntu 16.04 archive for armhf.

marc_aurel

Thanks so much. This is fascinarting easy. Unfortunately my phone crashed and restarted during the installation pricess. Now the spinner doesn't stop since last evening and no log is shown any more, if I tab on the row with the spinner and select "view". Some idea to stop the process and retry the installation? I think something was installed, but it seems incomplete. This, I may need to clean up the broken installation.

dobey

Hmm. I'm not sure if there's any way to resolve such an issue via the GUI (and I'm not quite sure what the issue is there anyway, beyond the crash during an install as you stated). It seems though you have found a bug in the libertine GUI. I'd suggest first to open an issue at https://github.com/ubports/libertine about it, with perhaps a few screenshots of the broken UI, and also any relevant logs, such as from the System Settings log, and perhaps there may be some libertine specific logs elsewhere too.

marc_aurel

I destroyed the container with adb shell:

libertine-container-manager destroy -i xenial

Unfortunately re-installing the container failed. See the creenshot:

I tried to remove some documented filed manually via adb shell:

rm -r ~/.cache/libertine-container/xenial
rm -r ~/.local/share/libertine-container/user-data/

I could reinstall the container, but my Fairphone restarts while installation and shows an infinite spinner afterwards next to the container in the settings. Does someone know the location of the installation log? I could link it here in the forum to clarify the issue.

Then I just tried to install LibreOffice as described in this thread with the user interface of the conainer onmy phone. The spinner disappeared and I can see some apps in the app scope now. I will check, whether and how they work.

Lakotaubp

@marc_aurel For future info I've always found that setting the screen sleep feature in Battery Settings to never while installing containers helps.

marc_aurel

I was happy too early. UBports has installed something, but not correct.

This is shown, if I open one of the apps.

Then another scope was opened with an error message:

I try to destroy the container and re-install everything. I would like to show a business partner the convergence use case next week. So I need to make this feature running.

marc_aurel

It seems, that UBports is a diva It seems, that the installation has been successfull, after I hold my FP2 in the hand and watched "her" installing.