fonts-liberation missing on Armbian 24.8.1 Orangepi5-plus noble

[phiser678]

Hi

I got ugly fonts in chromium. It seems the package fonts-liberation was missing.

I did not have the issue with the Uefi-x86 version.

 

Kind regards

Philippe

[ozacas]

sudo apt install fonts-liberation

will fix that of course. You dont say what desktop you are using, but current armbian-build does have this package in desktop base packages for noble kde-plasma and i3-wm desktops

but not cinnamon/gnome.

 

[phiser678]

I was referring to Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome. So, any reason why it is skipped in the cinnamon/gnome version?

[ozacas]

not sure of the reason, but perhaps the expectation is to build a custom image along the lines of

 

 

[phiser678]

I would vote to include it anyway, it's not like a service like samba, nextcloud or whatever service. When you use the chromium browser you will notice it soon there is something odd about the fonts, spacing is very big. The info of the packages says this:

Quote

ii  fonts-liberation 1:2.1.5-3    all          fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier

 

These are everyday fonts.

Edited October 31 by phiser678

[phiser678]

Tested the Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome version of Raspberry Pi 3 & 4 and it has the same problem.

[Igor]

5 hours ago, phiser678 said:

Tested the Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome version of Raspberry Pi 3 & 4 and it has the same problem.

Can you provide screenshot and some logs (armbianmonitor -u)

[phiser678]

Hello Igor

Thank you for looking into this minor issue.

I noticed it when using Syncthing. The first image shows the page without fonts-liberation, the second after installing  the necessary fonts.

 

I wanted to change the title of this topic, because it seems not limited to Orange Pi 5 only.

PS. Another surprise was there is no chromium installed in the Raspberry Pi 3 & 4 Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome version.  Will I make a new issue?

[Igor]

1 hour ago, phiser678 said:

Thank you for looking into this minor issue.

Perfect example to explain how anyone can fix such trivial problems without involving me. Which is essential for the project to survive. There are and always will be way too many problems for too little maintainers ... Bug is here, yes, and can be easily fixed, especially if you already have a solution. I am happier to provide guidance then doing this on my own (which takes a lot less efforts).

 

Solution is adding a package here:
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/desktop/jammy/environments/gnome/config_base/packages

(jammy has same packages as noble and is symlinked).

 

Every contribution counts, even this banal.

 

1 hour ago, phiser678 said:

Another surprise was there is no chromium installed in the Raspberry Pi 3 & 4 Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome version.  Will I make a new issue?

 

We have different Chromium versions, patched for this and that, then with and without snap ... It is a surprise that we can provide a desktop where accelerated video playback works on Rockchip RK35xx platform, which we support better then Rpi. Where all this probably just works if you download any Chromium?

[phiser678]

Thanks Igor, I can agree, the experience with Armbian on Orange Pi 5 plus is amazing.

Because you have mentioned the URL, I should do a pull request instead?

It's a bit strange i thought I did not encounter this problem on the  Uefi-x86 version. The different platforms do not share the same build packages blob? 

So, for raspi 3 & 4 I would suggest to have the chromium package, these are by default in Orange Pi 5 and  Uefi-x86 builds and then the experience is the same (except for the hardware accelerated video playback that you mentioned, 480p works ok though).

I guess the fonts-liberation package should work with the snap versions  and will solve this issue.