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Puppy 4.21 Barebones

#1 Post by aragon »

Puppy 4.21 Barebones is a stripped down 4.21. It is build with unleashed. It gives you a running base-system (incl. Xorg/xvesa + alsa) but not more. It is just a base to build puplets on.

Due to the barebones-build, many actions will not work (because of the missing apps).

Download: http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/aragon/421bb/
Size: ~ 52 mb

Attached is a file with all included packages.

I tested it on 3 systems (1 desktop, 2 laptops) and it seems to run stable. Both wireless and wired network are working.

Note: Start with pfix=ram to not pick-up an existing save-file.

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#2 Post by Lobster »

Excellent Aragon :)

Many will be happy.
Am I right it comes with no browser?
You could connect and then use the package manager to add a browser.
m m m this plus Puppy Browser would need extra libraries - but the big dog browsers would work.

This would seem the ideal for a 64 MB system.
Be very interesting how this is used :)
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#3 Post by aragon »

hi lobster, you're right no browser.
and package-manager is working.

if it's ok for an 64 mb system... well you need to test.

good luck
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#4 Post by aragon »

hi lobster,

you might want to test the attached dillo.

known issues:
- ssl enabled, but does not work on the pages i've tested.
- download-plugin uses the php-link as filename e.g. in this forum. you need to type the correct name by hand.

the dillo is statically build with fltk in 4.21.

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#5 Post by aragon »

lobster,

you might also want to try my cli-apps-package with this: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 717#318717

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Word processors won't run

#6 Post by technowomble »

Aragon.

I'm building a personal Puppy on 4.2.1, mainly for imaging - it's on an elderly Dell laptop - I've installed Firefox 2.0.0.7 from the official pet list and Ttuuxx's Gimp 2.4, both run OK and I've set up desktop icons for them, BUT I can't get a word processor working. I've tried the official pet of Abiword, the Abiword 2.7 pet from the forum and even Open Office from the Puppy 3 pets. They install, ( as far as I can see from the file system ), but although the permissions are set to ' execute ' they won't run, from the menu entry or going into the file system. I'd be inclined to suspect that something was missing, but FF and Gimp run OK. Any thoughts?

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Retro Version

#7 Post by tlchost »

Would it be possible to create a 4.21 Retro version? Several of the computers I use require that.

Thanks

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#8 Post by jrb »

technowombie wrote: I can't get a word processor working
A quick check shows that ch-OpenOffice-3.0.sfs loaded at boot with System->Bootmanager works. Unfortunately ch-abi2.6.4 is missing some dependencies.

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#9 Post by aragon »

@technowomble
run abiword from a terminal-window, this will give you missing dependencies, but only one at a time.

better to run the following commands from a terminal window.

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which abiword
will give you the full path

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ldd [abiword with path] | grep not
will give you a list of all missing libs.

if you post the output, we could assist you.

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#10 Post by aragon »

@Thom

difficult atm. i will try to but no promise.

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#11 Post by DaveS »

[Solved] See below.


Hey Aragon, this is agreat concept. All going ok so far with Firefox 352 +Flash and simplemail, but unable to make printing work. I have installed CUPS 1.4b2 patched and Gutenprint driver pack but get this error when I try to print a test page

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Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-banner'!
Can you or somebody point me in the direction of the solution please?
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#12 Post by tlchost »

aragon wrote: difficult atm. i will try to but no promise.
I understand.

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#13 Post by technowomble »

@ aragorn

I've done a clean install and installed the abiword-2.6.3-complete-pup421 from Package manager. The installation report and the code you suggested report the same missing dependencies:-
libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0
libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0
libgoffice-0.6.so.6
libwv-1.2.so.3
libAiksaurusGTK-1.2.so.0
libAiksaurus-1.2.so.0

I think the first 3 relate to goffice, and the last 2 to a thesaurus?

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#14 Post by Nekroze »

Question?

This is more related to how it was built rather then the final product:

i myself have been starting on the track to making my next pupplet through puppy unleashed. although i have obtained the unleashed 4.2.1 tarball i cannot even extract it without significant errors. i used the terminal command tar -zxf as suggested on the unleashed page at puppylinux.com but as i said it had a fair amount of errors. so i attempted to use my windows install to extract it with winrar and it had problems with replacing files of the same name but i have reason to believe that is because windows has problems with file names that are the same but different CASING but the unleashed extract was larger then the one i untar'd in puppy.\

sorry to be off the topic a fair amount but it would be incredibly helpful at this time and well i would owe you one lol!

but either way thanks for the barebones, but one more question is it SMP enabled?

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#15 Post by DaveS »

DaveS wrote:Hey Aragon, this is agreat concept. All going ok so far with Firefox 352 +Flash and simplemail, but unable to make printing work. I have installed CUPS 1.4b2 patched and Gutenprint driver pack but get this error when I try to print a test page

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Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-banner'!
Can you or somebody point me in the direction of the solution please?
YAY, got it figured.......... the printer speaks :)
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Abiiword runs!

#16 Post by technowomble »

@Aragorn.

Thanks for the pointer, with the missing dependencies listed I managed to track all of them down and install them - libwv took some finding! - and Abiword now runs. All I have to do now is set up the dictionary/spell-checker for ' proper ' ( UK ) English :wink:, and I think I can remember how to do that, or at least where to find the relevant threads. One tip for anyone else in a similar position, make sure you install the right version of pets, I initially installed goffice 0.5, no joy, 0.6 was what was needed.

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#17 Post by Nekroze »

bump for my question. can anyone assist i cannot get the unleashed tarball untared as it comes up with errors about configuring or something problem with a file that is read only.

Please can some one help?

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#18 Post by aragon »

@ Nekroze

sorry overlooked.

a) smp
no it's not, as puppy 4.21 is not. there is actually no barebones-version with smp (i think)

b) problems unleashed
basically, you should follow http://puppylinux.com/development/puppy-unleashed.htm

potential pitfalls:
- do all steps in puppy!
- partition-type: ext2, etx3 or reiserfs partition
- download the packages directly to the correct 'packages'-folder.

for more help, we'll need more info and exact error-messages.

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#19 Post by aragon »

DaveS wrote:YAY, got it figured.......... the printer speaks :)
thanks god, cups is one of my black holes...

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Re: Abiiword runs!

#20 Post by aragon »

technowomble wrote:for ' proper ' ( UK ) English :wink:
yes, en_US or en_AU might be a pain for some user ;-)

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