Messed up my petget manager..few times now..

[jonyo]

One of the options of petget is to install tarballs & stuff..

Tried it out a few times & I think that it causes my list of installed downloads to
disappear. So no longer have the option then to uninstall (or remove) them.

Only way I can do it then is to re-install, then installed dotpup appear again, in right column (in petget manger) & can then uninstall (or remove).

Would like to sort that out before fiddling further with installing tarballs & stuff.

Dunno what's going on or what is causing my installed items, to dissapear from the installed petget manager list, I think after fiddling with a tarball.& then rebooting.

All installed items are still there.

thx

[BarryK]

PETget cannot install just any old tarball, only PupGet packages, which have '.tar.gz' extension. Slackware tarball must be converted to '.pet' first.

Eventually I will phase out support of PupGets, screen out everything except '.pet' packages.

Note, if your /root/.packages/livepackages.txt file has become corrupted,
Puppy 2.14-final will regenerate it if it is zero-bytes in size. So, delete
the file, run
# touch /root/.packages/livepackages.txt
# petget
...and a correct livepackages.txt should have been recreated.

[jonyo]

thx,

Tarball (i think) I fiddled with was Grisoft AVG.

Pup 2.13 live cd's still humming nice on this laptop nevertheless.

Not gonna fiddle with tarballs..for a bit.