It works!! One warning I get though is that I should install the program haveged due to low entropy. I'm looking in the PPM and do not see it. Is there a way to request this package? thanks!

Sorry...have been away for several days. Will be back from traveling tomorrow and will give your suggestion a try. Thanks!

thanks for all the help rcrsn!

The package installed successfully but now i get the error that it's library is missing:

stdbuf: failed to find 'libstdbuf.so'

Thanks! I installed that pet and am now getting 2 new errors. This is the output I now see when I try to run create_ap: Config dir: /tmp/create_ap.wlan2.conf.XXDEygep PID: 12972 Sharing Internet using method: nat hostapd command-line interface: hostapd_cli -p /tmp/create_ap.wlan2.conf.XXDEygep/hosta...

I have gone and posted this question on the create_ap github project as issue, hopefully they will have some insight there.

all dependecies were installed as follows: iptables-1.4.20 dnsmasq-2.78 wireless-tools-29 (iwconfig) iw 3.5 iproute2-3.10.0 procps-3.2.8 util-linux 2.21.2 bash-4.2.053 hostapd-2.0 and create_ap was installed using make install command. The error I am getting is not that I am missing dependencies. It...

Running Slacko installed from windows exe on little acer portable laptop that doesn't have a CD Rom. I have 2 wifi adapters and am trying to use a program called create_ap in order to share the wifi signal coming in on one interface and broadcast it out on the other. I have downloaded all the listed...

just solved this by putting a java_home and path statement in /etc/profile.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix ... -variable/

I am using Puppy5 and installed the clojure programming language using puppy package manager. Closure runs on the jvm and so the java dependencies were also installed. However, if I try running clojure the shell reports that Java is not found.

The output of free is as follows: total used free shared buffers Mem: 481924 474056 7868 0 9060 Swap: 0 0 0 Total: 481924 474056 7868 As you can see there is 0 swap space being utilized. If I start Gparted it says that /dev/sda3 is 682.45 MB linux-swap

Puppy keeps crashing whenever memory usage (the red histogram in the taskbar) reaches 100%. I formated this drive with a swap partition, but maybe it's not working? thanks!

Good idea! However, I am running emacs with (server-start) in my .emacs file. So, if there is an emacs already running it is a server that should be used. Therefore, I make a slight modification to your code as follows: #!/bin/sh if [ "$1" ] ; then exec emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs...

I tried re-downloading the binary and installing it. This time it worked! However I still get the same error concerning rdev...oh well.

I am trying to change my default editor from geany to emacs. I have the following script under /usr/local/bin/defaulttexteditor: #!/bin/sh exec emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs "$@" The funny thing is, is that if i open up rox and click on a text file, then it successfully launches ema...

ooops my bad, i was trying to install the wrong version. thx!!

Thanks everyone! turns out the command is /root/.dropbox-dist/dropbox

so, i tried putting a text file with the single line:

/root/.dropbox-dist/dropbox


in my startup folder. The application did not autostart on boot. Am I doing something wrong? thanks!

Recently I installed a program called dropbox on puppy. I wanted dropbox to start on boot, so was going to write a script that i could add to /root/Startup. My problem is that i cannot find the command for starting dropbox. It is not in /bin, /usr/bin/, usr/local/bin. I start dropbox by going to the...

I am trying to install JDK by following the simple instructions here http://javadude.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/how-to-install-jdk-on-linux/ # Download from java.sun.com. Select Linux Distribution. # Copy jdk-xxx-linux-i586.bin to /opt # Make it executable: chmod +x jdk-xxx-linux-i586.bin # Execute it...

Thanks for responding! I recopied the library files using --no-dereference as well as --preserve options. ldconfig works with no error message now.

Unfortunately, my problem is not solved. same thing. when I run ./configure on gnupgp the library is listed as missing.

I am trying to install a program gnupgp which requires several libraries. One of the libraries is called libgpg-error. I downloaded the library which is a directory containing several files: libgpg-error.a libgpg-error.la libgpg-error.so libgpg-error.so.0 libgpg-error.so.0.2.1 How do I install this ...