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[sc0ttman]

puppy 5 compatibility
make puppy 4 binary compatible with lupu/wary/quirky/etc

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Consider this for testing only!
(Don't install when using a save file or full HD install)

This is a simple GUI which will download a .pet that updates your puppy 4 system, so that it becomes compatible with packages compiled for puppy 5.

This, in simpler terms, means you can install pets from Lupu, LupQ, Wary, Quirky and so on, into your Puppy 4.
(Also Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, and whatever else your Puppy supports)

You can avoid the dreaded 'GLIBC 2.7' (etc) terminal errors produced by packages that are 'newer' than your puppy 4 system.

Here is some info on the puppy 5 compatibility update pet:

- contains: libc-2.22.1, libesd-0.2.41, libfaad-2.7-4, libglib-2.24.0, libselinux-2.0.89, libslang-2.2.2, libstc++-4.4.3, libx86-1.1
(from ubuntu, a few of these are unnecessary, I guess)

- you should change gobject symlink in /usr/lib from pointing at version 2400 to 1400 to fix firefox (and others I guess), but it breaks pprocess 2.2.2
(I did the same with other libs, to seemingly no effect)

- it needs to be updated a little bit, with a nice pinstall script, so any old symlinks are pointing at the new files, and old ones removed.

I will do this soon, but it works quite well as it is.. I can install Lupu pets which otherwise dont work.

HOWEVER!!

It does seem to break something in GTK-Dialog and GTK+ (which are used by many apps to produce menus, etc), especially with locales, so you will be stuck with english menus, etc, but puppy 4 has very little localisation anyway...

(After installing this you will always get a gtk error in the terminal which says 'Locale XXX not found, falling back to 'C'.. Not critical, but means no localisation, as I said)

[tengzelius]

Search of Google & your web site yielded no download hyperlink to ap site. Please furnish one. Here is a puppy work around when using opera.sfs--find /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser & change text within to reflect opera.

Great web site.

Lou

[disciple]

Don't you think you should upgrade GTK too?

[sc0ttman]

[sc0ttman]

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