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[tronkel]

@sage

Hi Matey - hope things are going well over in Blighty.
Attached is a pet package that I purloined from the PCLinuxOS repo and converted it to a pet.

The guy who developed it (called Leiche - LOL German for corpse ) did a good job on it - so I think that you are right in that it would be worth having available in Puppy.

Tested in Wary 5.2, Iguleder's Guy Dog 5.01, Luci 529 (3- Headed Dog). Should also work in most recent Puppies.

You may need the DBUS packages - certainly in Wary and maybe in the Lucid series as well, so if it doesn't start, install the DBUS packages from the PPM. You'll find the program in the JWM menu under "system".

Over and out.

Tronkel

[Sage]

That's amazing tronk - very many thanks to you and the undead, Leiche! Tell me he's from Transylvania. Looks as if quite a few nibbles already. Small utilities like this strengthen the breed.

[Sage]

Unintended consequences!
Running the Flashplayer option immediately and involuntarily at the start of play tends to ellicit the answer 'Yes, please'. For users, esp. experimenters, of the liveCD, this can be disastrous. Running it numerous times a day soon gobbles up even the most generous ISP d/l allocations, doubtless reflected in the monthly account.
Suggest the appearance of Flashplayer is directly linked to first use of browser. Even better, to any use of browser requiring it (I don't use BBC iPlayer on test machines).

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[gcmartin]

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to acer netbook.

Fri 4 Nov 2011 Operating System: Racy Puppy-5.1.110 Linux 3.0.7
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: 1695 MHz

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Memory 1812MB (104MB used)

# glxgears
1026 frames in 5.0 seconds = 204.917 FPS
1012 frames in 5.0 seconds = 202.241 FPS
1025 frames in 5.0 seconds = 204.834 FPS

On first boot the screen resolution and sound were good,I used sns to
set up the wireless network connection.
Ethernet controller Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n

I tried to install the ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run
proprietary driver but couldn't, it compiled without error but after
fighting with it for a while I gave up and settled for the radeon
driver.
Other than the ati problem racy is working well on this netbook.

[Sage]

[Sage]

[tronkel]

@sage

in Mint, you can install the alien package and then convert the systeminfo rpm package to a deb package.

I have already converted it to a deb. Since I could only find a i386 version on the web this is the architecture that it prefers to run on - that's the bad news.

The good news though, is that even if you have a 64bit Mint version (either the Ubuntu or Debian based variant "lmde"), you can force the install at the command line by using:

sudo dpkg -i --force-all "name ofpackage"

You can have a go yourself if you want to try it, but I'll upload the deb that I built to datafilehost anyway after I have finished scoffing my dessert. Keep an eye on this thread for the download URL.

[tronkel]

OK here's the download URL for the systeminfo DEB package for Linux Mint/Ubuntu.

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-7b75ce74.html

Enjoy!

[tronkel]

Just tried systeminfo on my Linux Mint LMDE 64 bit installation. It works, but only just. The output windows are truncated and just as in the Puppy version, the offer to install any missing packages doesn't work - as you would expect though, since Puppy Linux has a different package management system to PCLinuxOS.

I then thought I'd have a go with installing it to my Debian Wheezy partition - again a 64 bit version - the same system that Linux Mint LMDE is based on. In this case and using the same deb file that I built for Mint, systeminfo works perfectly - including the ability to install stuff directly from the Wheezy repo.

There's no explaining why things work sometimes in Linux an not other times.

Linux Mint and Wheezy seem to be 2 different animals even although Mint LMDE is based on Wheezy. I wonder where the difference is.

I like this current Debian Wheezy - second only to Puppy though of course! Needs a bit of tweaking though to set it up to my liking, but worth the time spent IMHO

[Sage]