Gobe Productive Running in Haiku!!

Thursday, 25 October 2007 06:13

Yes you read that right, Gobe Productive v2.0.1 works in Haiku (as of rev22724)!! The following screenshot should send shockwaves through the BeOS/Haiku community!

Earlier today I updated some info for ticket #562. I was playing around with Gobe, and noticed it stuck on libprefs. Anyways, it seems that libprefs kept looping, and was all that was preventing Gobe from starting up. This bugfix may allow many other apps to run in Haiku, as it's a common library (i.e NetPenguin now works).

I've played with GoBE Productive for half an hour now, and it seems remarkedly stable. Gobe Productive is a unique piece of software, and one of the darlings of BeOS software. This will surely fill a much needed gap in the office suite department, despite the software's age! It's also testament to the vision of enabling backwards compatibility to BeOS applications, and how good Haiku is at it. This single application may allow some to actually use Haiku daily (if you still have a license kicking around).

*update... ok, so the 'clock frame' brings Gobe to a halt, but that's really all I could find that will crash it so far.

It seems some of these bugs are really just trivial, and shows how stable Haiku is underneath... It also shows how important it is to test software and submit bug reports ;). Thanks to Axel, who, like it's his job, applied the fixes within hours.

For instance, another really good software, MeTOS, was fixed with this ticket#1553. The results here:

A great day for Haiku!!

Comments

0 # Meanwhile 2007-10-25 08:58

What, no checksum errors yet?
Did you install from Gobe CD and then upgrade from it or use the trial version download to upgrade from?

0 # karl 2007-10-25 09:01

Hi,

I imaged a hard drive install of a copy of Zeta 1.2 (to a vmware image) I purchased, and Gobe Productive 2.0.1 was on there.

0 # Meanwhile 2007-10-25 09:06

Aha, I'll try the CD-update route and post the results here...

Cheers,

Meanwhile

0 # Meanwhile 2007-10-25 10:22

That didn't work (yet)...couldn't mount the CD.
Then the 'install Gobe Productive' file -copied over to Haiku- was unpacked, resulting in an empty folder :S
Anyhow, enjoy your Gobe on Haiku (it *is* good news).

0 # karl 2007-10-25 10:33

Ah, that sucks... try unpacking it in BeOS or Zeta, the expander in Haiku can be a little flaky...

I will enjoy it, thanks!

btw, I put a demo copy of Gobe on the updated weekly super pack.

0 # neat! — umccullough 2007-10-25 11:11

I'm actually excited to hear NetPenguin works now!

0 # karl 2007-10-25 11:16

Quote:

I'm actually excited to hear NetPenguin works now!

haha, to each his own... I kinda liked using the Haiku built ftpositive

0 # sikosis 2007-10-25 20:58

someone actually likes NetPenguin ???

0 # thenerd 2007-10-26 00:15

that's great Karl! Thanks for all the testing you do with the super pack. Haiku is definitely becoming a stable platform. I just wish there was an installer so I wouldn't have to build it (or download the image) to make it run on real hardware. None the less it's gonna be great.

0 # karl 2007-10-26 00:30

hey Dennis, thnx. have you tried 'dd'ing the image to your physical drive? would be cool if someone could write a little tutorial on that. i don't have any physical hardware that Haiku works on.

0 # Great News that more and more Software is running... — BrunoBratwurst 2007-10-26 02:42

Great News great work,

Gobe is a important step I think, because it is a big office suite, so it shows the usability of HAIKU.
Very impressive.

btw... is the developer pack working ??? BeIde?

Netpenguin I like very much. It is a nice piece of software...
I used it a lot...

0 # karl 2007-10-26 02:46

hi bruno,

yea beide is.

the weekly super pack has a lot of developer tools on it, i.e:

BeIDE
CheckItOut
Clue
CVS
GCC-2.95.3-BeOS-061007
Headers
Jam
JamMin
MeTOS
PackageBuilder
PE
SSH
SVN
Yab & YabIDE

i'm not sure how well they function though, as i'm not a developer. would be nice to know though.

0 # thenerd 2007-10-26 02:57

Karl, I've managed to dd the image to a physical and get Haiku to actually boot. All the info you need to DD the file to a hard drive is here (haiku-os.org/community/forum/installing_haiku_to_a_partition_from_linux). Basically you have to do the following:

sudo dd if=generated/haiku.image of=/dev/sda6 (if= is the location of the haiku.image file and of= is the partition you want to install it to)

then you must

sudo jam run ':<build>makebootable' /dev/sda6 (change it to your partition you have Haiku on)

You can also run makebootable from the BeOS Max Live cd if you do not have a build environment installed on Linux or BeOS.

There is a tutorial here (haiku-os.org/documents/dev/building_haiku_on_ubuntu_linux_step_by_step#comment) for setting up the build environment on Ubuntu Linux.

[edited] mucked it up the first time

0 # Lib problems — Humdinger 2007-10-26 04:32

I haven't succeeded yet...
I got a backup of my old BeOS system, among it Gobe's app folder. Can anyone help me which libraries I need and where to put it?

When starting Gobe from Terminal I get messages from the runtime_loader telling me it can't open the files "libinagemanip.so" and "libprefs.so" plus "incorrect ELF header".
I got the SuperPack and copied the libprefs.so plus its links to ~/config/lib/ . Then I got LibImageManip from BeBits and put that lib there also.

Still no joy...
Help?

0 # karl 2007-10-26 04:38

hey hd..

uhm, i think you're using an older revision. libprefs is built into gobe axel said. make sure you're using rev22724 or newer, and maybe delete libprefs out of /home/config/libs, although his bugfix should allow it to work properly.

you can try the newest haikuware weekly, the demo is working on there.

0 # Humdinger 2007-10-26 04:57

Oh... damnit! Never mind!
I suspected to have too old a revision right after I posted the comment... Took a look... yep... idiot...! :-)

I updated and tried again. It works! Phantastic! Ahhh... good old Gobe. :-)

Thanks, Karl!

0 # karl 2007-10-26 05:02

lol np. after playing with a bit more, i see the word processor works pretty good, but the spreadsheet and drawing applications sometimes freeze. ah well, i'm sure these bugs will be ironed out soon enough too.

0 # jarzac 2007-10-26 06:05

I had some problems running Productive's photo editing application. I tried to change a brush but the cursor locked up. Any way I'm very excited to see the status of things for Haiku. I'm also amazed at how responsive Haiku is on the vmware player.

0 # karl 2007-10-26 06:15

Quote:

I had some problems running Productive's photo editing application

Yea, I noticed this too.

0 # thenerd 2007-10-26 14:37

Looks like we got our first link from OSNews.com (osnews.com/story.php/18833/Gobe-Productive-Running-in-Haiku)

0 # karl 2007-10-26 14:52

lol. yea i submitted the article there.

i thought it was pretty big news, guess they agreed. ;-)

0 # thenerd 2007-10-26 14:55

guess they did. I've submitted stuff there before which I thought was decently big stuff but never got a post. lol

0 # NetPenguin — FurryOne 2009-08-23 07:32

...someone actually likes NetPenguin ???

Say what? I used to use Get-It (paid for) and later NetPenguin for managing my website.;-)

0 # Gobe Productive not installing — andrewzx1 2010-01-05 12:17

I just bought a copy of Gobe Productive 2.01 and it's not installing. I'm having the same problem as Meanwhile. The installer comes up, runs, but only created an empty folder. If I copy the installer to the disk and run it from there the same thing happens. I'm not sure how to manually expand the Installation file, it's not in gzip format. Thanks for any help!

0 # RE: Gobe Productive not installing — bbjimmy 2010-01-06 00:41

The Gobe cd has more than one session. The one with the data is not mounted in haiku. At this time, it can only be installed from BeOS. Once installed, the software can be moved by copying the app directory to your haiku partition and making any needed links to the Deskbar menu.

0 # Gobe Productive indeed runs on Haiku (Alpha 1) — pistooli 2010-01-25 13:56

I inserted the Zeta 1.21 CD in and copied the GobeProductive.zip, then installed it in Haiku Alpha 1.

And it works! :)

0 # GobeProductive — Lelldorin 2010-01-25 15:21

Yes it works, but not completly, because gobe crashed some times and not all functions are running.

0 # RE: Gobe Productive Running in Haiku!! — pistooli 2010-01-26 08:41

true. still better than nothing. :)

0 # RE: RE: Gobe Productive Running in Haiku!! — MaxOS 2010-01-26 09:28

You kidding, right? None of today's standard reading/writing documents, often crash etc. Better it is to use a functional KOffice and no cheating that on Gobe can work on Haiku today;)