Hey gemini friends

I was trying to integrate plan9port tools into my work flow. Git cloned p9p and did ./INSTALL without problem. From what I have read, the plumb(1) command should function as the open(1) command in fruitOS. I.e, if I run ./9 plumb xxx.mkv, it should in theory look up the correct program to handle the mkv format and run something like mpv xxx.mkv.

However, when I run ./9 plumb xxx.mkv, I get the following error:

plumb: can't open plumb file: dial unix!/tmp/ns.MyUserName.:0/plumb: connect /tmp/ns.MyUserName.:0/plumb: No such file or directory

What is wrong with my setup? I’m new to plan9 concepts, did I misunderstood something?

=> Posted in: s/plan9 | 🚀 decant_

2024-06-21 · 7 months ago

3 Comments ↓

=> 🐰 bubstance [...] · 2024-06-21 at 13:17:

Did you start the plumber before doing that? It needs to be running before anything can be plumbed.

See plumber(4) for details.

=> 🖥️ zetamacs · 2024-06-21 at 20:59:

bubstance is correct, nothing can be plumbed until "plumber" is run, whether that's by hand or in a startup script of yours.

Same goes for factotum, if you try that out.

=> 😎 decant · 2024-06-22 at 02:46:

after launching plumber, it works! both in CLI and acme.