Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

distortedstar · Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 87

I'm looking for a good desktop search tool for Puppy, and it seems like Google desktop is a great choice...true, not free in every sense, however, it has few dependencies and seems relatively lightweight. It is only distributed as a deb or rpm, however. How can I install that in puppy?

Are there better alternatives?

Lobster · Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 11715

Menu / Filesystem / pfind is not good enough?

distortedstar · Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 87

As far I as I know, Pfind doesn't index the contents of files like emails and documents and pdfs. This is the primary advantage to a desktop search tool. Am I wrong?

distortedstar · Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 87

bump. Ideas for installing a deb?

giac_fab · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 111

you must unpack it .....

To do it I like to use this :

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=808821920&t=16358

It's a little big but it's simple and can open all archive(when xarchive don't Peazip do ).

After copy the extracted files where is needed (I don't know if you will need to compile.....) and hope you will not need some Kg of libraries.

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 08:41 Post_subject:

get a dotpup in the following messages

Just tried it in Muppy007 (extended Puppy 2.12).

Downloaded the .deb to "/".
Extracted it:
cd /
undeb google-desktop-linux_current_i386.deb

Started to run it:
gdlinux

This exits without any error, nothing happens.
Tried to check dependencies:
cd /opt/google/desktop/bin

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 09:18 Post_subject:

Solution:
the tls-problem comes from the library delivered in the deb.
delete (or rename):
/opt/google/desktop/lib/libstdc++.so.6

Then run:
cd /opt/google/desktop/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/google/desktop/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
ldd gdl_config

If you still get an error, install this dotpup:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Libstdc++.so.6.0.5.pup

Now you should get no more tls-errors.

Now type "gdlinux", this should add a "google-desktop" button to your tray.
I use icewm with icewmtray, I did not check, if that works in JWM.
Search-results will be displayed in my firefox, so please report, if it works with seamonkey, too.

For quick access, drag /usr/bin/gdlinux on your desktop.
You find icons for it in /opt/google/desktop/resource

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 09:37 Post_subject:

you also might copy the .desktop files from
/opt/google/desktop/xdg/
to
/usr/share/applications/

Then edit them, and replace the line:

Categories=google
with:
Categories=Utility

Then type "fixmenus" (or use the "refresh"-entry in icewm-ultra) to see the new menu-entries in the utilities-menu.

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 11:13 Post_subject:

I made a dotpup, that will install google-desktop for you, and perform the required changes.
Please tell me, if it works for you.

It will tell you to download a file from google, so you can be sure to have the newest version (I chose this solution for copyright-reasons, as google-desktop seems to be no free software).

http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/Googledesktop-installer.pup

be shure to have 25 MB free diskspace, the installer does not check that!

You will need even more free space after installation.
My /root/.google folder meanwhile already is 37 MB in size (after indexing 80% of 1.3 Gigabyte in /root and /usr).
The search creates the database there while scanning your harddisk in background.

In case future versions of googles program should be incompatible with puppy, you can get the required file I used here:
http://dotpups.de/diverse-tgz/google-desktop-linux_current_i386.deb (7.6 MB).
Use it ONLY if the current version from google will not work!

Mark

puppyLUVER1234 · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 15:45 Post_subject:

Ok, I installed google desktop. Isnt there supposed to be an little bar at the side?

puppyLUVER1234 · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 15:56 Post_subject:

Also, can someone tel me how to install SuperKaramba (http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html) On Puppy Linux 2.17? I mean it installs but i dont know how to execute it.

puppyLUVER1234 · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 16:04 Post_subject:

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 16:28 Post_subject:

please don't bump after some minutes.

I don't know about a bar for google-desktop, maybe desktops like KDE support that.
But the screenshot in the help shows only the search-bar itself that opens, when you click on the trayicon:
http://desktop.google.com/en/linux/
http://desktop.google.com/en/linux/images/desktop_scrshot.jpg

Superkaramba:
that requires KDE, which is an addon for advanced users:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=11876

You might prefer instead the easier to use wbar:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=19742

Mark

puppyLUVER1234 · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 16:42 Post_subject:

Ok, sorry.
What i ment was is there an widget bar for Puppy Linux?

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 16:51 Post_subject:

No, Puppy does not support widgets.
You would need KDE for that. KDE has an own widget-engine.
Alternatively, try the webbrowser "Opera".
It has widgets like clocks, calendars and such, that it can place on your desktop (I think they are called gadgets there).
But they seem to have problems with transparency, many might look ugly because of that (the drop-shadows).
At least that was my impression some months ago, maybe that issue was fixed meanwhile.

You can install Opera with Petget.
Mark