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fyujj · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 103

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

davec51 · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia

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.

jaapz · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 70 Location: Assen, NL

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 Smile

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 Razz

I tried emesene, midori and some other i dont remember xD

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2009, 11:56 Post subject:

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 Smile

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 Smile

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.
ttuuxxx

jaapz · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 70 Location: Assen, NL

I am already trying to compile midori, but yet without succes Razz

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..

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2009, 12:26 Post subject:

jaapz · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 70 Location: Assen, NL

Hehe, thnx for the info, but isnt there just a way i can compile midori just on my upup full hd install? Razz

Would be way easier and i dont think its impossible Razz

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2009, 14:32 Post subject:

iscraigh · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 276

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

ringofyre · Joined: 01 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

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

hartiberlin · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 67

Hi,
I tested the ppa.iso and pps.iso

ppa.iso would not boot from Fat32 USB stick as it said
it could not find ppa-422.sfs

Then downloaded the newer pps.iso
and that booted fine...
But it seems it does not contain the latest WPA2 compatible
WIFI drivers.

I have a Realtek RTL8180 based PCMCIA WLAN card
and it does not work with it.

it even can not find any WLAN network at all.

The distis I got the my Realtek RTL8180 based PCMCIA WLAN card
to work with WPA2 encryption are Fatdog2 beta and turbopup and flexpup.

Hope this helps somehow.

Regards, Stefan.

n01fu · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 9

Athlon 5000 w 1GB ram, frugal install. fprot downloads, but immediately an error from fscan saying

"fscan - fprot:

file not found!

Aborting..."

tomasrey88 · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 23

Dear Barry,

Please do not base Puppy on Ubuntu. It has major bugs that the developers ignore. Keep Puppy independent.

If you use USB 2.0 devices such as USB flash or external DVD RW drives or external hard drives on USB 1.0 computers with Ubuntu, it will cause data corruption. This does not happen in Puppy 4.2.1. Please refer to the following webpage for details:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1231361

Please do not base Puppy on Ubuntu. Keep Puppy independent.

Thanks,
tomasrey88.

sapik · Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

cichlasoma · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 69

I've just tried 476 out quite quickly.
On different machines, I see no icons in menu in Xorg.
In Xvesa it's OK, but Puppy cannot shut the computer down (or reboot it), it just restarts X instead, trying to shut down X restarts it instead as well.
I've tried to install circa 10 Ubuntu packages, in all the cases, Puppy reported no dependencies were missing, yet when I clicked the created menu entry, nothing happened. I've tried to run from console only some of them, i got messages on missing dependencies.
Was I especially "lucky" to choose packages which are special in some way or is installation of Ubuntu packages generally still not working?
(I was running a frugal install on a hard drive.)