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koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 104 Location: Greece

Hello people!!! Very Happy

I'm running Lupu 528 with openbox but i 'd really like to use Gnome or stable KDE. Is there a possibility?

Thank you!!

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Eyes-Only · Posted: Sun 06 Nov 2011, 08:40 Post subject:

There's also a KDE-4.6.3.sfs file floating around here somewhere on these pages that works perfectly with LucidPup-5.2.8 - and possibly even lower as I had it running on 5.2.5 as well.

It is very easy to add to a frugal install of LucidPup by setting the boot manager to load the file from your Lucid-528 directory on the partition each time you start up. Once it's loaded the first time all you need do is type: xwin startkde and thereafter that desktop will be the one to load until you decide to choose another desktop. Smile

If you have a hard drive install of LucidPup then you need to use the "SFS-installer" programme - which will install the .sfs file much like a .pet file. I can't recall whether this programme comes already pre-installed in 528 or if you need the .pet for it? Either way it's very easy to do.

As for the Gnome-2.0 desktop... That was done by WOW for the Puppy-4.00 series. I'm not sure whether or not anyone has had any success using it for Puppy-5.00, nor if anyone has had any luck installing Gnome directly from the Ubuntu repositories.

I hope this added info has helped in some small way as well.

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"

EDIT: I believe this was the .sfs file that I used for my 5.2.8 LucidPup, found here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71359
Bonne Chance!/Good Luck! Battleshooter is excellent when it comes to these things! Smile

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 104 Location: Greece

You were extremely helpful, thank you very much!!! Very Happy