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#21 Post by Sky Aisling »

Good Gravey, Makoto!

I had no idea that is what is involved in taking a download from Mozilla direct!

Thank you for taking time to write all these instructions out.

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#22 Post by Semme »

Hey Makoto :wink: *truly* BIZARRE. :lol:

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#23 Post by Makoto »

It could probably be shortened; I never had any luck with the GUI archivers in my Puppy 4 setups - they usually didn't keep the folders or permissions intact, for some reason. (And, I don't have the "Extract Auto Detect Subfolders" option Amgine mentions. :( )

But, it's the method I use, just to be sure, when manually installing programs (that are already compiled) from a .tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive, including Seamonkey 2, Firefox, Thunderbird, Peazip, etc. :D
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#24 Post by Amgine »

Makoto wrote:It could probably be shortened; I never had any luck with the GUI archivers in my Puppy 4 setups - they usually didn't keep the folders or permissions intact, for some reason. (And, I don't have the "Extract Auto Detect Subfolders" option Amgine mentions. :( )

But, it's the method I use, just to be sure, when manually installing programs (that are already compiled) from a .tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive, including Seamonkey 2, Firefox, Thunderbird, Peazip, etc. :D
Oops, Sorry I must have had Kubuntu in mind.

But there is a way to extract ziped folders with the GUI.

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#25 Post by Semme »

Amgine- modern Pup's extract just about everything these days. Pup's point is to avoid the cli.

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#26 Post by Sky Aisling »

What's *cli*?

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#28 Post by Sky Aisling »

Thank you, I've looked around for years now trying to find something that would explain in common words how to use the terminal in Puppy. Thanks to Tux!

How come the terminal entries look different in Ubuntu than in Puppy?

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#29 Post by Semme »

Look different? In what way?

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#30 Post by Sky Aisling »

I've tried entering commands I've learned in Puppy and Ubuntu says, "it's not BASH" ?

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#31 Post by Semme »

Among other things, sounds like you're missing coreutils. This still 4.3.1?

Hold on.. you said "learned in Pup".. No, Ubuntu's doesn't contain many of the scripts you'll find in Pup.

Hence, the beauty of Pup. Few distros match Pups ability to let the user get his or her hands dirty.

Bash scripting, from a beginners point of view, is a thing of, well.. beauty.

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#32 Post by Sky Aisling »

No, I'm writing this from Ubuntu 10.04. on a ZaReason Big Lap.
However, tomorrow I will attempt to follow Makoto's much appreciated instructions and download the most current *Thunderbird* mail client to use with Puppy-4.3.1 running beautifully on a elderly Gateway 400 laptop. I actually was hoping to run it as a .sfs to conserve resources on the Gateway. But, I now I have a chance to learn something about downloading from Mozilla.

Thank you for all the education tonight. Good night!

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