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Re: Java Development Kit

#81 Post by ttuuxxx »

ARAN wrote:Does anybody know if the Java Development Kit is inbuild in devx ?

I wanted just to try compiling ANDROID for my Pocket PC with puppy linux but it requiere JDK 5.0 from SUN.

http://source.android.com/download

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

Is it possible to have JDK in devx ?
It would be really great.
Hi you would probably have the devx running then recompile gcc, The reason why is that when compiling gcc as an option you add java capabilities to gcc, Then you would just have to download jdk from sun and install it, Compiling gcc takes about 2GB of space.
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#82 Post by ARAN »

Hello ttuuxxx.

Thank you a lot for your fast answer.

I didnt know that gcc need to be rebuilded. This make the whole thing a litlle more complicated now.

It is really pitty that with puppy linux at the moment android cant be builded from scratch.

I am especially interessted for building the linux msm kernel.

P.S. Only for information. Here is a Video from google that show the future and potetial for linux in the mobile world in comparisation to the PC World. It put you out of the shooes. Especially the Numbers.

http://sites.google.com/site/io/an-intr ... to-android

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Re: lite gnome games pet

#83 Post by ttuuxxx »

Peter444 wrote:ttuuxxx, as the lite gnome games pet worked so well in u476 i thought i would try and install them in turbopup alpha 3 which i tend to use a lot
Hi peter I don't think its possible, I had most of the missing libs already compiled on earlier 4 series, like the gnome parts etc, but hen I tried it, it was missing a newer glibC that isn't in puppy, and well it seg faulted when exec, I would say the best way to do those games is to compile it all from scratch. It would be much smaller also. I don't have the time right now to focus on compiling like 20+ packages for 1 game series:)
But who knows maybe in the future, until then maybe just use Upup for the games.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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lite gnome games pet

#84 Post by Peter444 »

ttuuxxx, thank you for the advice, understand time priority equation

decided to go back to using your 4.2v2 puppy for a while, you have motivated me to consider having a go at compiling from source one of the gnome games in the next couple of months

regards

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#85 Post by boscobearbank »

Finally got around to some preliminary testing of woof alpha 9 on my Acer Aspire One. Currently running off a live USB stick created with unetbootin. (1) I was able to connect to my brother-in-law's WPA-protected network without any problems. (2) Sound works. (3) SD cards are recognized, but needed

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 modprobe pciehp pciep_force=1
to recognize a card inserted after booting. (4) Could not save pupsave file to an SD card. The SD card were mounted, and showed up in the dropdown list of partitions, but when one of those partitions was selected, I got an error message telling me that no partition was selected.
Bosco Bearbank

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XAMPP

#86 Post by Schism »

I redid the XAMPP package by MU, to the newer sfs. It boots and work's fine. But, MySQL doesn't connect? I also checked the XAMPP Forum...

Here's a screen of my start and stop.

I believe it has to do with MySQL uid's.

I tried the new Firefox3.5.pet and my system froze! Rebooted and Firefox won't start, no messages when starting from rxvt either.

Help?
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#87 Post by cirabisi2009 »

the download link is broken :( i want

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#88 Post by vanchutr »

@Schism
Install or use lampp1.17.sfs
Then un-tar this patch. May be this patch help you
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Running uppup 476 with kernel 2.26.29.4 on samsung nc20

#89 Post by Scotto »

Runs the wifi, very quick, had to use vesa I think the rez is set to 1280x768 instead of 1280x800 but useable.
I ran renoise on this and didn't have to set up realtime scheduling? I wonder what puppy would be like with realtime premtive kernel, zipp...
I'm new, alot to learn. A great platform for netbook audio tracking.
Also, I need to find out about .pet version compatibility, I think I saw via chome video drivers as a .pet but having trouble finding them.

Best distro I've tried on this netbook, I feel at home, I'm staying.

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#90 Post by Jim1911 »

Gnumeric appears to work since it opens and can open existing files. However, data cannot be entered to create a new spreadsheet and data cannot be changed in an existing spreadsheet.

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#91 Post by fyujj »

Celeron D325 (2.53 GHz), 768 MB RAM, video card GF4 MX460.

I've created a directory in ubuntu's '/' partition, copied vmlinuz, initrd.gz and the sfs file and needed only to add

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title		Puppy 5-alpha 9
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/pup5/vmlinuz
initrd		/pup5/initrd.gz
to the menu.lst.

Everything working fine, with eth0/auto dhcp network.
I've read a post about this puppy being memory hungry and checked top process viewer. There's this process 'X :0 -br -nolisten tcp' that was grabbing a lot of ram. Just to make sure, I checked after a fresh boot: same result.
Maybe it has nothing to do, but I see a 'br' there and I may have set a 'br' (Brazil) locale (not sure).
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GParted Broken

#92 Post by davec51 »

Suddenly GParted doesn't work in 476. The screen comes up and the greyed-out searching function goes on, but it never stops.
I booted up a separate GParted and it works fine.

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#93 Post by jaapz »

I have the same Gparted issue here.
Also the desktop icon switcher doesnt work properly. It does switch icons, but on reboot (i use full hd install) it just goes back to the default (not so very pretty xD) icons.

Am using it now as my main laptop os :)

Oh, and when i install packages from the ubuntu repos, it doesn't install the dependencies with it? Every program i got from ubuntu repos and tried so far didnt work :P I tried emesene, midori and some other i dont remember xD

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#94 Post by ttuuxxx »

jaapz you tried to install midori man, that would be a big install, with all the extra qt/webkit etc, If you did it as a test thats cool, but if you wanted it as a regular browser, If I was you, I would compile it, it would take a lot of time, trust me I did it once and had to compile the whole QT 4, to get webkit, Since 4 series didn't have it, it took like 4+hrs of compiling and about 1.5GB of working directory, but the finished browser with the needed deps was around 12MB I think it was. but 12MB is a lot smaller than maybe 40mb+ if you install it from ubuntu. Thats one of the whole reasons I'm kind of against using ubunu/debian/ repos, The packages tend to carry a lot of extra deps that puppy doesn't need, Its nice to have it as a option, but as a regular repo, I use the puppy forum or compile it myself, I've used the Ubuntu repo a lot :) mostly for software searchers to find source packages, Since they also provide all the sources its a great easy library to search for software sources and the download speed isn't bad either :) plus the nice thing about getting sources from Ubuntu, they list all the deps and then you have a good idea of what your getting yourself into before you start compiling. Also sometimes they patch sources with fixes which is good.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
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#95 Post by jaapz »

I am already trying to compile midori, but yet without succes :P
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44655
I don't really know how to set up a good compiling system :$ I tried setting up the devx but havent succeeded in that either..

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#96 Post by ttuuxxx »

jaapz wrote:I am already trying to compile midori, but yet without succes :P
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44655
I don't really know how to set up a good compiling system :$ I tried setting up the devx but havent succeeded in that either..
a simple way is have a spare ext3 partition and copy the cd files onto it, not into folders just as soon as you mount the partition and it opens copy them there, Then copy the devx_sfs to that same location.
then leave the cd in the drive, and click shutdown, a screen will ask if you want to make a pupsave, click yes, then click the largest size you can afford. and follow the rest of the instructions until you reboot with the cd in the drive, Then this is optional, but probably needed if you don't have much memory/space left, I make a massive pupsave :)
To make a massive pupsave you click Menu/Utility/Increase Personal storage Size
pick 512MB, now its time to hack that puppy :) Only do this step if you have a ext3 partition and the space to do it in :)
go to /mnt/home/pupsaveresize.txt <--- that should be located where your pupsave is located. Right click on it and select "Open As Text"
now it should read 524288, but thats not enough so put a number "8" in front of it and it should now look like 8524288
now save it and reboot, it will take some time to reboot the first time because It has to make the 8.5GB pupsave.
I usually use a 16.5GB pupsave and also I copy and rename the extension, That way once I uses up a lot of it, I simple delete it and rename the extension back to .sfs from something like .szzzzzzz and I'm good to go after a hard reboot. (push power button on case) :)
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#97 Post by jaapz »

Hehe, thnx for the info, but isnt there just a way i can compile midori just on my upup full hd install? :P Would be way easier and i dont think its impossible :P

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#98 Post by ttuuxxx »

jaapz wrote:Hehe, thnx for the info, but isnt there just a way i can compile midori just on my upup full hd install? :P Would be way easier and i dont think its impossible :P
copy the devx/sfs to your mnt/ directory and reboot
or click on the devx it should open, highlite the folders and copy them to a new folder in say root like
/root/devx
then do the dir2pet /root/devx
and follow the instructions and make that folder a pet :)
install the pet and get compiling.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#99 Post by iscraigh »

I installed transmission from puppy's package manager, it pulled it from the ubuntu repositories). It was missing one library which I pulled from my Ubuntu install. It starts and runs fine but I get no window manager around it, no bar @ the top no way to close minimize etc.
Any suggestions?

Craig

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For Rob (tasmod)

#100 Post by ringofyre »

Unpluging and repluging the usb receiver worked for me once x was running properly.

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