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[James C]

Using Lightweight2 right now......fast little browser and no problems yet.I already used Arora occasionally anyway so no problem using it in Polarpup.

[pemasu]

Qcomicbook-0.7.2 compiled in Polarpup.

[Billtoo]

@pemasu

I did manage to compile vlc in polarpup and made a pet of it, playing
audio worked fine but as soon as a video is loaded it locks the
computer up so it's back to square one I guess.
The new2dir script is not working in the polarpup devx,installwatch_lucid-1.6.1.pet
that 01micko made fixes it.
I'll try again and upload it if I'm successful, don't know when that
will be of course.

[pemasu]

Billtoo. Thank you of your huge effort in this VLC project. Will you be succesfull or not, I will appreciate this hugely. I grant you with Grand Master of Polarpup virtual nomination right now. You can bow virtually and accept this highly appreciated title.

And thank you of that new2dir bug fix pet. I remember when that struggle was in lucid devel thread, but since I dont use new2dir at all, I forget to implement the fix. I use plain commands, strippkg (included in my builds), splitpkg (included).
The compiling commands vary so much and QT have its own set for compiling like qmake and cmake, so I dont trust new2dir enough. Also locales has so different folder namings that splitting locales often needs manual steps also.

I am right now compiling Firefox. Billtoo, you were right, I need to include more dev-libs to the devx sfs. Lets see if I am succesful. If I am, I will post my steps so other people can try it with latest 5.X Firefox also.

[pemasu]

Lol. I launched the freshly build Firefox-5 and I saw the name Aurora. My mind translated it as Arora. It took several relaunching before I understood that code name for this development build is .....Aurora, lol.

My compiling time notes copied from Notecase which I use for notetaking. Yes, I do my Puppy Linux notes in english and here is also a lot Playdayz notes from his Firefox compiling thread.

My needed extra libs:
libasound2-dev
libpthread-stubs0-dev
libx86-dev
libx11-dev
libxt-dev
mesa-common-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev
libsm-dev
x-dev
libice-dev
perl-modules
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/i386/yasm/download

2. Download Firefox source code
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ >>take biggest number

download -> firefox.source.tar.bz2

2b. Also download and install yasm, which is necessary for Firefox to support webm video.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/i386/yasm/download

Webm test files -> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1919639

3. Unpack the source code:
Code:
# tar -xjf firefox.source.tar.bz2

(Don't try to use Xarchive--it takes forever)

4. Open the unpacked folder and open a terminal in that folder
(right-click in the folder background and choose Window -> Terminal Here), in console execute next rows:

export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native"
export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=native"

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-dbus --disable-hal --disable-crashreporter --enable-strip --enable-application=browser --disable-libnotify

make -j4 (for quadcore)

make install DESTDIR=/mnt/home/firefox-5

Next I need to strip unneeded stuff out and make a pet, but that is another story.

[pemasu]

First time when I have compiled Firefox. I packaged it using Playdayz great Firefox pet as template.
Anyway, this is compiled in Polarpup. Might be working.

Download link: http://smokey01.com/pemasu/Pets/firefox-5.0b7.pet

[jim3630]

[jim3630]

Had Tano working somewhat, could get channel program names with schedule times. I'm convinced tano does not stream but records and you then can play back. It says is recording but then can't find the recorded file.

After changing gtk colors saved and started Tano it crashed. This is the first time got this error so here it is.

code:
# tano
QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.
libvlc-qt "0.4.0--git" initialised
Using libvlc version: "1.1.10 The Luggage"
libvlc loaded
libvlc Media: "udp://@232.4.5.1:5002"
EPG: Flag: "nvfgpcvota2x9lecemkdpa"
ASSERT failure in QList<T>::operator[]: "index out of range", file /opt/qt4/include/QtCore/qlist.h, line 403
Aborted

[jim3630]

"News-0.5.0 - scrolling rss news ticker

Doesn't seem to work in JWM but does in openbox.

screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/D1ChV.jpg"

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65136&start=1770

tried in polar pup with Icewm and works so far.

[jim3630]

new sm tested in polar pup and works so far and is fast.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65136&start=1755

Seamonkey 2.1 (no dbus) -> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet-packages-lucid/seamonkey-2.1-i686.pet

[Billtoo]

@pemasu

I wasn't able to get a working vlc pet compiled in polarpup but this link is to the one that I made in lucid525, it's big and I doubt that it will fix your subtitles problem but it has some extra codecs enabled and also snapshot which allows takes a screenshot of a running video (pretty nice)

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-7cbfb49e.html

I'm taking a rest from trying to compile vlc in polarpup.

[pemasu]

Billtoo. Thank you hugely of your effort. You did your best and that is enough.
I did test your latest VLC. It worked again in my brief test. Subtitles...well...they still dont work, but I still suspect that main reason is the wrong location of Qt libs regarding of compile time location.
It misses after /usr/lib/libQtCore.so but played video at short test.
I stripped it and splitted it to main, dev, doc and nls packages and uploaded them to the ftp site under Pets_Gt4
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Pets_Qt4/

The main vlc-1.1.10-i686 is about 5 Mb.

The problems with subtitles. I dont know if this is part of problem:

[pemasu]

I think I solved how to get Qt applications to use present gtk theme. There wasnt need to install libgnomeui or gconf stuff. I had already enough of them installed. There is though need to feed one theme manually before the Qt applications starts to use gtk themes, like below command executed in console:

[jim3630]

[pemasu]

Jim3630. Great news. I suppose you had gtk style selected in qtconfig or you tested the behavior after selecting gtk style.