(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

battleshooter wrote:Hi Doc,
Could you copy and paste the direct error?

Still unpacking after our trip and having trouble locating the needed AC adapter for the laptop giving the trouble - soon as i find it i will post the error.

Our children have "oddly" misplaced their MS-dependent Typing Tutor CD.

Rather than try to locate it or waste funds acquiring a replacement I'd really love to be able to use a typing tutor-type program that runs under Puppy.

Anyone have a .pet for that, please?

Welcome back Edoc. Hope you had a good holiday.

There are three typing programs I know of available for Pup.

Klavaro

Gtypist

And there's TuxType, but I can't find the post anymore. It's a dotpup so I'll see about uploading a pet.

battleshooter wrote:Hi Doc,
Could you copy and paste the direct error?

torcs is completely unresponsive from MENU-FUN

torcs from Console generates this error:

/usr/lib/torcs/torcs-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

battleshooter wrote:Welcome back Edoc. Hope you had a good holiday.

There are three typing programs I know of available for Pup.

Klavaro

Gtypist

And there's TuxType, but I can't find the post anymore. It's a dotpup so I'll see about uploading a pet.

THANKS!

Oh, FYI, our children now officially hate you ... this after they loved you for helping with their games ...

edoc wrote:

battleshooter wrote:Welcome back Edoc. Hope you had a good holiday.

There are three typing programs I know of available for Pup.

Klavaro

Gtypist

And there's TuxType, but I can't find the post anymore. It's a dotpup so I'll see about uploading a pet.

THANKS!

Oh, FYI, our children now officially hate you ... this after they loved you for helping with their games ...

I've already compiled the latest tuxtype and tuxmath will be uploading shortly
ttuuxxx

tuxmath, tuxtype, tuxpaint are located on this thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 678#263678
enjoy
ttuuxxx

Thanks Ttuuxxx, that'll save me some time

@ Edoc

I'm sorry to be on your kids' unpopular list! Maybe I can make it up to them with Wormux, it seems to work great on Puppy 3.01, but I'll test it on 4 just to make sure, I don't want to waste your time, it's quite a hefty download.

Concerning Torcs, I'll boot up Pup 4 and see if I can reproduce your error.

battleshooter wrote:Thanks Ttuuxxx, that'll save me some time

@ Edoc

I'm sorry to be on your kids' unpopular list! Maybe I can make it up to them with Wormux, it seems to work great on Puppy 3.01, but I'll test it on 4 just to make sure, I don't want to waste your time, it's quite a hefty download.

Concerning Torcs, I'll boot up Pup 4 and see if I can reproduce your error.

well since I had all the sdl files installed running live, I compiled tuxpaint also:) 3 is better than 2, just the addon pack called stamps is a 29mb pet. wow
ttuuxxx

Thanks ... thanks ... THANKS!!!!!

@edoc,.....
a real quick "off topic" thing,....
thanks for your little website link! The "Weather Resorces" are terrific for central Florida!
(besides,...bad weather makes for good time with Puppy's games),....if there's no lightning, that is.

edoc wrote:Thanks ... thanks ... THANKS!!!!!

Hey edoc I have a surprise for you Hope your still around in 10 mins or so
ttuuxxx

Check out the last game on the list
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 678#263678

Hi Doc,

I tested Wormux on Puppy 4 and it worked great. I would have petted it, but the pet ended up larger than the original download. It works fine straight off so just extract it where ever you want and click wormux.sh to play.

Here's the link.

http://www.wormux.org/LastWormux-Linux

Be warned though, it's 57MB

Thanks! Just grabbed it & loaded it to the desktop - our daughter is trying to figure it out now - her Daddy is game-challenged.

No mention (at least from what I can see in this thread, sorry if I missed it,) of my favorite collection of Solitaire games, PySol and Pysol Fan Club Edition. There are pets for them.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 85&t=23263
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 85&t=25539
Requires python. Thing is, I can't get the dotpup working in Boxpup, and I can't figure out how to get Pysol seeing python in Boxpup. Shame, since I love Boxpup so much.

Thanks for the heads up Wosifat. Muggins has made so many game pets it's hard to keep track of them all! I'll add them later when I have time.

wosifat ,.....
does wine run good in boxpup? (it does in Puppy 4.1)....
but the win edition of the Pysol Fan Club solitaire runs really great for me under wine.

wosifat,

is it just that pysol & pysolfc don't work from the menu with boxpup, or are you getting errors on the commandline if you run, say, pysol?

Pysol and Pysol FC aren't the problem so much as Python. The dotpup won't work (says ""ERROR: Not enough free diskspace, you have MB, but needed are !", whatever that means." Have tried a few and get that message, but for some reason the dotpup for Wesnoth works.) When I try to run the Pysols it just says that it can't find Python, and I haven't been able to get it working right with any of the Python dotpets.

With Python-2.5.pup not extracting properly, the simple solution is to just rename it to Python-2.5.zip, then from the .zip file, extract FILESYSTEM.tbz to /, then see if pysol complains when run from the commandline.