Is there a possibly to make the Puppy Package Manager to support DEB, RPM, TXZ, TGZ, PUP, and PET packages regardless where the Puppy Linux is build from?
In terms of repos listed in PPM. I suggest that don't make the repos hard-coded in PPM. Instead put in a file in order to make the PPM more dynamic by adding/updating/deleting repos in the list file and also to avoid the ftp.nluug.nl incident where in there is a re-release of puppy distro due to temporary offline of ftp.nluug.nl repo
More improvements in PPM
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Re: More improvements in PPM
I've had pretty good luck downloading Debian packages and installing them into Puppy. You'll have to run the package from the command line to see if there are missing dependencies.mistfire wrote:Is there a possibly to make the Puppy Package Manager to support DEB, RPM, TXZ, TGZ, PUP, and PET packages regardless where the Puppy Linux is build from?
In terms of repos listed in PPM. I suggest that don't make the repos hard-coded in PPM. Instead put in a file in order to make the PPM more dynamic by adding/updating/deleting repos in the list file and also to avoid the ftp.nluug.nl incident where in there is a re-release of puppy distro due to temporary offline of ftp.nluug.nl repo
I run frugal installs, and generally back up the save file before doing so, however.
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Slacko and Lucid support adding DEBs.
I believe it is possible to add extra repositories to the PMM, but it involved manaully editing some config files...
http://bkhome.org/woof/ppm.htm
I believe it is possible to add extra repositories to the PMM, but it involved manaully editing some config files...
http://bkhome.org/woof/ppm.htm
Ok...I finally found another improvement to the PPM.
The option to remove unneeded dependencies.
Now we all know that having to remove unneeded programs one by one is time consuming and irritating. Other package managers, most notably apt, allow for purging unused and unneeded packages.
*sudo apt-get autoremove*
There is no equivalent in the PPM.
However when you uninstall a program, the ppm tells you what dependencies aren't needed.
So it's plausible that a feature could be added to allow removing them.
The option to remove unneeded dependencies.
Now we all know that having to remove unneeded programs one by one is time consuming and irritating. Other package managers, most notably apt, allow for purging unused and unneeded packages.
*sudo apt-get autoremove*
There is no equivalent in the PPM.
However when you uninstall a program, the ppm tells you what dependencies aren't needed.
So it's plausible that a feature could be added to allow removing them.
download acceleration in PPM
I wonder if its possible to integrate an accelerator in PPM to make downloading of packages faster and saves time.