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gulk · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 85

Understood. So the .pet I have on megaupload is ready to go; caveat is people will need to install libevent to make use of it, or transmission-2.42.pet should be added to slacko repo.
Enjoy Smile

Lobster · Posted: Fri 30 Dec 2011, 17:58 Post subject:

Don't you give me that clever geek talk, I ran the transmission pet and got

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

Lobster. I suppose you are good to try the version Michalis has posted. Attached here.

Lobster · Posted: Fri 30 Dec 2011, 19:25 Post subject:

thanks pemasu, thanks guys
. . . transmission update accomplished Very Happy

gulk · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 85

gulk · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 85

Since I'm starting to get the hang of it, I compiled a password manager app that I like because of its cross-platform capability.
The main app pet file is only 1MB (attached here).

The app runs on Qt >= 4.3; if you don't have it installed on your puppy, just run this 5.9 MB pet (will install libQtCore, libQtGui and libQtXml): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WI7CC2Q4

Lobster · Posted: Sat 31 Dec 2011, 03:57 Post subject:

went to Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/

downloaded and expanded FF (FireFox) file to
/usr/lib/firefox
and dragged Firefox executable to desktop
. . . FF 11 nightly build seems to be Slacko compatible alright . . . Cool

gulk · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 85

Thanks for pointing this out.

I was actually wondering why Aurora was proposed when choosing Firefox in Slickpet. Aurora is the test bed for Firefox, and although it didn't give me any trouble, it is still considered a non-stable version.

I just followed Lobster's method to install the standard Firefox (v9.0.1 at the time of this writing):
1) download Firefox tarball
2) expand it
3) replace /usr/lib/firefox/ folder with the newly extracted /firefox/ folder

gulk · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 85

Spoke too soon... no matter what Firefox I install using Lobster's method, I lose flash capability. I am therefore stuck with Aurora 7.0.1 (no biggy, cause it's been stable so far).

Lobster, did you check youtube or http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to see if flash was still fonctional after your update?

Lobster · Posted: Sat 31 Dec 2011, 17:31 Post subject:

I am just going to stand quietly in the corner with a triangular hat with a D on it . . . Embarassed

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

For future reference, rename, do not replace a folder.
That way, you have the original to fall back to.

The other method when testing a new release is to do a backup of your slackosave file using a utility like 2bytes Hot Backup for frugal PUPS.
Then each time you add something that is in test mode, you will have a dated, with time, backup that you can use to get back to where you were before the addition of the test software.

I had just got through downloading and installing SeaMonkey 2.6 from a PET package and before I installed the pet, I renamed /usr/llib/seamonkey directory to /usr/lib/seamonkey-bak. If the installed upgrade had given any problems, I could have just removed it and renamed that directory back to its original name.

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421

Eterm with dependencies.

http://www.eterm.org/

Lobster · Posted: Fri 06 Jan 2012, 03:52 Post subject:

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421