G'day again stu90,
stu90 wrote:
Hi Puppyt thank you for the feedback.
Sound like an interesting project you are embarking on there...
Thanks for your interest in my little walk on the wildish side. While it will never aspire to the dizzy heights of BioPuppy or ChemPup (
http://biopuppy.org/ and
http://www.chemtoolbox.com/index.php/ab ... oxcom.html), I have always hankered after a general research-type dogsbody puplet, and your strip-backed Lucid-lite looks just the ticket.
Alas, this is the moon-shooting ideals of a non-programming, barely-typing Windows Refusenik (not refugee) and pretty soon found myself embarking up a whole series of wrong trees before I realised I was embarking mad to think I could pull it off painlessly.
Here's the core of what I was aiming for:
1) SciPlore PDF management, bibliography integration and visualisation tool (from the FreeMind crew:
http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplo ... /#download, though the application will have a name change from v16 away from "SciPlore Mindmapping" to "Docear". (robwoj44 provided a pet for beta10 here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 162#431162, but I was never - am still not able- to integrate the software properly in Puppy. Yes, you can drag'n'drop any number of image, doc and pdf files into the mindmap but you are then unable to click on the objects to have the requisite image, doc or pdf reader and highlighter re-open those data files. Does a great job of displaying the bookmarks (headings and subheadings) of your PDF files in any given directory, but does not link to those locations in the actual PDF file in Puppy Linux, unlike that found in Windows versions etc. Latest version beta15 is only available for Linux as a zip file.)
2) KeepNote organisational tool for writing and research projects. (
http://rasm.ods.org/keepnote/index.shtml#about. No pet or sfs yet available, just zip file. Alas - doesn't appear to be open-source - does anyone know of an open-source alternative??)
3) The 'R' statistics environment.(emil's forum and pets here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51141)
4) ImageJ digital analysis package.(
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij). robwo44 also made a pet here of the most recent release
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=319184. Has plug-ins available for statistical analysis of digital images in 'R', and has been recently extended to the 'Fiji' package here
http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Fiji, for which there is no pet/sfs yet available.
5) CowLog video analysis software (
http://mpastell.com/cowlog/. integrates with mplayer, 'R' statistical analysis and can be modified by the user using KDE's "Kommander").
Since I was having to go with KDE (for Kommander and the "RKward" R gui - see below), I looked at Okular for PDF file functions
http://okular.kde.org/ - but happily found that KPDF does a perfectly good job for what I wanted.
6) User's own choice of Office software drawn from the Puppy and Ubuntu repositories. Maybe something from the KDE branch...
WHAT WENT WRONG?
Just me, I'm thinking.
First up I removed FF_3.6.13-Lucid pet and installed sc0ttman's FireDog-3.6 as the principal browser. Installed essential add-ons Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/, the wellminded puppy linux search engine and Downthemall and everything is drum-tight and super-fast (thanks sc0ttman!). I used emil's jre_1.6.0_22 pet listed here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 1&start=45 and ImageJ works, and SciPlore 10 (pet) operates to the level outlined above. I also tested AngryIP-3.084
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67345 and it seems to be working as advertised. Needed Xarchiver_0.5.2 for the zip files and installed Python-+-2.6.4-i486 as a dependency for KeepNote. All dependencies ckecked out fine.
The R (+ R-Commander, a /GUI to help beginners using R) sfs worked like a dream.
For KDE I thought lightness was next to godliness, so went with Iguleder's KDE 3 (Trinity core:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 1&start=90) sfs. Weird stuff happening now, with various K 'apps' working and others (like Kommander and KPDF) playing "schtum" in both Openbox and kde environments (restart from prompt with "xwin startkde". *I'M BACK IN JWM - HOW DO i GET BACK INTO OPENBOX PLEASE??). I then installed dejan555's minimal KDE pet from here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41115 (kdelibs4c2a.pet ) and all works swimmingly in KDE and JWM - haven't yet tested in openbox. All, that is, except "RKWARD" - the additional R GUI I hoped to install to assist beginners in statistics and the R "environment" (
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/). Typing 'rkward' in a terminal starts up R but doesn't carry through to load Rkward correctly. The latest zip files for SciPlore (v15) and KeepNote 0.7.2 also failed to make any impression when extracted into the root directory.
So I have a bit of a dismembered 'bitzer' here, and must ask the wider community for assistance (in the Requests) for SciPlore15 and KeepNote pets, as well as tips on properly solving the rkward dilemma.
Cheers!
P.S. Thanks too for the "heads up" on Gparted - I read gaz1965's post with great interest. I thought 'pfind' was another absolute necessity for a functional base - couldn't see if Thunar had a file search feature in-built and perhaps a KDE alternative might be friendlier to users new to Puppy (I have no real experience with KDE). Haven't yet tried pemasu's kernel or noticed the audio hitch yet, but will report back later today
* EDIT: Aha - type "startx openbox-session" at the prompt to resume as normal. (e.g.,
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25185)