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umair · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 04:33 Post subject:

Hi Eyes-Only:
I tried as u mentioned but no luck.
Hi muggins:
I forgot that from where I downloaded the sfs file. Could U or anybody tell me that How I can use Open Office in Legacy OS?
Thnx in advance
UMAIR

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Hello Umair,

unfortunately I'm unable to specifically advise you on John's LegacyOS. I'm unaware if the sfs converter is included with it, or not.

But, in general, I've never had any problem getting OOffice working, (with any version of puppy), by directly downloading it from:

http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html

extracting it to /mnt/home, then symlinking relevant binaries to /usr/bin.

Or, perhaps Scott Jarvis's Akita Linux repository would be more suitable to using with Legacy. He has an OOffice .pet available here:

http://akita.scottjarvis.com/

umair · Posted: Wed 11 Jul 2012, 05:21 Post subject:

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello umair,
While I don't recommend using Legacy OS 2 apps in Legacy OS 4 I know that a number of apps do work. Personally I recommend you boot up a live version of Legacy OS 4 and experiment to see what works and doesn't before trying to add them to your Hard Drive install.
Legacy OS 2 contains a lot of base libs Legacy OS 4 doesn't so a number of apps will complain of missing dependencies.
If you start them from terminal using the ldd command for example ldd ./gimp a long list of dependencies gimp relies on will be displayed. This list will tell you if anything is missing. Now you'll need to track down any missing dependencies which can take a bit of time, I know as I spent 100's of hours putting it all together.
I wish you luck as life for me is very busy outside of Linux which isn't giving me much time at all to check the forum for your posts.

umair · Posted: Mon 16 Jul 2012, 02:50 Post subject:

umair · Posted: Fri 17 Aug 2012, 06:26 Post subject:

Hello Every One:
I have a issue in Legacy Os-4,
I m not able to connect to my yahoo accounts through Pidgin Messenger.
Here is the screen shot
Note: I m running Legacy OS-4 from live USB
Any Idea ?
Regards
UMAIR

umair · Posted: Thu 06 Sep 2012, 12:18 Post subject:

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 138 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Hi umair, I assume you are still running Legacy OS 4 Mini. Could you do me a favor and check (with a live cd, so as to not mess up your install) and see if you can change themes in icewm? I have tried to change from default and every time I do, it sends cpu to 100% and freezes up icewm. I have tried this on 2 different computers, and tried burning a new disc. Still the same results. Thanks, Rob

umair · Posted: Sun 14 Oct 2012, 02:31 Post subject: Re: Can't change them in Icewm

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 138 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Thanks umair, I appreciate the help. Rob

umair · Posted: Mon 15 Oct 2012, 03:52 Post subject:

Rob:
I have tested the Legacy OS-4 from live cd mode thn changed the icewm thems. I am also facing the same problem as you. tried on two different systems but the result was same. We may ask the John about this thread. Hope that he should better idea.
Thnx
UMAIR

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 138 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Thanks umair for the help. I will send John a pm if he doesn't notice this. I just wanted to verify other people were unable to change themes also. Thanks again, Rob

slenkar · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 129

I tried legacyos 4 with my Intel graphics card, whenever I play a youtube video flash crashes when I do something else fairly intensive like loading another webpage, this doenst happen with legacyos 2 or other puppies so 'its a mystery'.

I would use one of those youtube downloader apps for puppy but they dont let you look at your subscriptions.

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello slenkar,

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 138 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Hi John, thanks for noticing our question. No, I am only using your installed themes, making no changes, not even doing network setup. Theme switcher seems to be broken. If I try to change from your default theme, icewm refuses to restart with task bar or karamba. CPU usage seems to go to max, and that is as far as it gets. Task bar does not start at all, and karamba appears when right clicking on desktop, but then disappears. Theme switcher worked in 2010 Mini beta. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rob