Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[sickgut]

Hi,

I love my puppy 4.2 installation but I found that some more modern software I like required a newer glibc version.

Nexuiz, alien arena and Xaos are my favourite programs that fit this catagory. I have broken my puppy more than a few times attempting to upgrade my glibc but I have tried the following solution a few times now with great success. Note I have tried this with Puppy 4.2 and Puppeee RC7 (based on 431) and it worked flawlessly.

Only need 2 files. One is dpkg .pet (most of you probably already have this) and the libc6 2.11.deb ubuntu package. You can get them here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/dpkg-deb-1.14.20.pet
http://64.12.96.232/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1_i386.deb
[Links updated by Flash 9-28-11]
Simply install the dpkg pet by clicking on it, then in the directory you have download the libc6 .deb file, open a terminal and type the following:

[Fractal]

Thank you for this useful post - it dug me out of a programming hole!

[sc0ttman]

Gonna try.. this might be my lazy shortcut to get a few things done (in a much simpler way) before I get too busy or go off the idea! cheers

i was gonna do a longer way... i used another package to do something similar, which apparently breaks locales or something... Does this way have any issues you know of?

[nancy reagan]

Hi sickgut


Links don't work

Nancy

[muggins]

Nancy,

sickgut no longer hosts any puppy stuff. For dpkg-deb-1.14.20.pet, it's in the pup4 ibiblio repository here.

For libc, you can use ubuntu repository:

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu//pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.8_i386.deb

[nancy reagan]

[sc0ttman]

sickgut

After upgrading gblic, on puppy 4, to any other more recent version, I always come across the same error message, with GTK... I would like to know if you get the same, or if you have fixed it..

I created a thread to try solve the problem here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=530253

[muggins]

Nancy,

try the changed link above.

[nooby]

Would it work for puppy 412 too? Or on such puppies like pupngo?

[Dewbie]

Before downloading Ubuntu .deb that Flash updated above, go to this thread and read second post for new information from sickgut: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66373

If you prefer using sickgut's commandline .deb installation method, note that dpkg-deb-1.14.20.pet is strictly for 4.2.x Puppies.

For 4.1.x, use this one:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/dpkg-deb-1.10.18.pet

Neither dpkg-deb .pet is needed for 4.3.x; it installs Debian packages as-is.

Easier .deb installation method is outlined in next post.

[Dewbie]

EASIER WAY:
(for 4.1.x and 4.2.x)
Convert .deb to .pet using this method:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1923251336&t=39756

[sickgut]

hello people

i started this thread quite a while ago and i thank flash for updating the links etc and i apologize for the fact i have posted stuff every where with links to my site and they are no longer valid.

this is because of an accident on the server on my part, i accidently chmod'ed the whole OS rather than just a folder and before i realised there was an easy way around it i had already logged out and it wouldnt let me back in, and it didnt restart with the changed permissions and so i had to reztore from backup and because i only use budget providers, i didnt have a backup.

when this happend i was already committed to my current pussy linux project and needed to continue with it and havent had the time to find all the files i had hosted for puppy stuff and remake my repo again and there where also packages i had made myself like the apt-get stuff and the 4000 lines of code i put in there for one of the config files but i didnt have a backup, the only one i had was on the site. ive created this situation myself by not keeping backups so there is no one to blame but me.

in the future i am looking at starting a repo again but not only puppy specific. there are alot of usefull packages that arnt in the ubuntu or debian repos and i will be making small .sfs files of these and offering 2 versions, one with all known dependencies and one with just the program itself. The version that includes all the known deps will work on puppy and probably most other minidistros.

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for this idea, it looks very promising. The main problem I have with keeping the 4.2 series running is that the older Firefoxes (i.e. pre-4.0) won't be allowed onto some of the newer and more security-conscious websites and you can't run the latest Seamonkeys on them either. So any fixes that solve this problem are well worth knowing about.

Thanks again!

CP .

[Dewbie]

CP, try this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71099
You'll need a user-agent I.D. from 4.0+ Firefox.

Or try ttuuxxx's Opera-11.51
I'm running it right now with Puppy Linux 4.1.2., no problem.

[drblock2]

Sickgut,

Many thanks. I used your solution to install djview3 in Wary 5.3.90!