Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[dougtheslug]

I read on the june isue of tuxmagazine.com about Atopackage , it claims that it can install programs windows stile in any flavour of linux . will this work with puppy ?
here is the link ( http://autopackage.org/index.html )

[GuestToo]

no

it assumes you have bash ... the script inside does not work properly with ash

Puppy now has bash, but it still doesn't work properly
bash scripts usually make extensive use of the Gnu-Utils (ls, cp, mv, rm, chmod, ...) ... many of those programs have been replaced in Puppy by busybox, which saves a lot of space ... but they don't always work quite the same as the full versions

autopackage doesn't seem to work properly, even using bash

plus, many of the autopackages probably assume Puppy has certain programs and library files that it doesn't have, so some packages probably would not work in Puppy because of dependency issues

plus, some packages modify the boot scripts ... Puppy uses it's own boot scripts ... it does not use "standard" slack or debian or redhat boot scripts

[Bruce B]

I think the dotpups are working great.

[Lobster]