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hamoudoudou

PPM Slacko Abiword

#196 Post by hamoudoudou »

Looking for abiword and gnumeric, exaile
Missing in quickpet list. repository not found from PPM
Libre Office is really too big.
found goffice Wary that fits OK.
Moved back to slacko 5.3.3 ! (as Adrive). Kept only ifrmware and modules from 6.3.0
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redandwhitestripes
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Re: PPM Slacko Abiword

#197 Post by redandwhitestripes »

hamoudoudou wrote:Looking for abiword and gnumeric
Missing in quickpet list. repository not found from PPM
Libre Office is really too big.
found goffice Wary that fits OK.
There's a quickpet list? :shock:

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#198 Post by redandwhitestripes »

When I insert a USB drive, clicking on the icon brings up pmount and I have to mount or unmount via pmount before I can view the drive contents in rox. In all other puppies, I can just click the icon to view the contents. Can anyone explain why this was necessary? Is there a way to revert to the usual behaviour?

hamoudoudou

Go back to the others Puppies...

#199 Post by hamoudoudou »

Go back to the others Puppies... :!: personally, tonight, i go back to Slacko 5.3.3. No trouble, no nervous breakdown, i Open usb contents by a click.
"It's probably safe to say that all the current pups have been developed on somewhat newer hardware than previous builds, Lucid for example. So I understand exactly as I've experienced the same.. A cumulative system overload. Yeah, it gets to the point I've gotta reboot back into Lucid if I want any type of acceptable performance." Not a bad idea, semme !
Quickpet : none (it's sfs one)
Tahrpup offers a lot of choice, Slacko only provides a kernel, and background... It's a pity :(

Pelo

Slacko provides the browser Firefox !

#200 Post by Pelo »

Slacko provides the browser Firefox ! The french version (Slaxen) does not, giving the choice to newbies to make their choice !
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#201 Post by redandwhitestripes »

I did eventually go back to tharpup. Even that proved harder than usual under slacko, as the puppy installer would only install the slacko sfs to a flash drive (unless I made a mistake again) so I had to use another laptop with tahr installed.

I'm grateful for the chance to use slacko but for me, I found several disadvantages and no advantages compared to Lucid, Precise or Tahr.

jlst

#202 Post by jlst »

I had no problems with Slacko, and I found it to be friendlier for older hardware. Although basically the same issues apply in all Puppies.

The only thing that might get in the way is the second tray for jwm?

tahrpup has more enhancements and bugfixes that should be in woof? I guess so.

I like it better than tahrpup, though.

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Codeblocks on slacko

#203 Post by gyro »

Since there seems to be no codeblocks in the slackware repository, I have compiled codeblocks 16.01 on slacko 6.3.0.
It can be downloaded from http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/sla ... -16.01.pet. It's about 6.5 MiB in size.
This pet depends on wxGTK being installed from the slackware repository using Puppy Package Manager.

Note on wxwidgets:
The version of wxwidgets in wxGTK is 2.8.12, this is old, but it is ideal for a reliable codeblocks, it is not recommended for developing new wxwidgets based programs.
If you want to get serious about creating wxwidgets applications, I recommend that you research the wxwidgets web site so you can download wxwidgets 3.0.2 source, compile and install it.
If you do this, do NOT uninstall wxGTK, otherwise codeblocks will not run. And recompiling codeblocks to use wxwidgets 3.0.2 is not recommended, it produces an unstable codeblocks.

Edit: Re-uploaded it. Removed some unneeded stuff.

gyro
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stemsee

#204 Post by stemsee »

I don't know if anyone has posted about it, but Nathan Wallpaper trips up because of 'Stardust dark.svg' & 'Stardust bright.svg' Nathan Wallpaper Setter gets four errors because of the spaces: in slidshow mode.

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wifi ok

#205 Post by pri »

test wifi seem ok. need sharing with android phone.

sony vaio pcg. 71318l 64bit windows 7 home edition.

next jump to slacko 64bit.
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How to update Chrome to the latest version? (rel 49)

#206 Post by harrisnyc »

Hi all,

Please forgive me if I seem like a bit of a noob, but I love Slacko64 6.3 so far, and I really want to make it work for me.

Here's my issue:
- In PPM, the only version of Chrome I see is 46. Yes, I've updated the PPM database.
- The latest version of Chrome is 49. In fact when running 46, the Gmail webpage tells me that this version of Chrome is no longer supported.
- I installed 49 from the Chrome website (both the .deb and the .rpm versions, as I really wasn't sure which one to use, which is a separate noob issue of mine) but when running it, it tells me that it cannot run under the root user.

Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance.

Harris

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Re: How to update Chrome to the latest version? (rel 49)

#207 Post by harrisnyc »

harrisnyc wrote:Hi all,

Please forgive me if I seem like a bit of a noob, but I love Slacko64 6.3 so far, and I really want to make it work for me.

Here's my issue:
- In PPM, the only version of Chrome I see is 46. Yes, I've updated the PPM database.
- The latest version of Chrome is 49. In fact when running 46, the Gmail webpage tells me that this version of Chrome is no longer supported.
- I installed 49 from the Chrome website (both the .deb and the .rpm versions, as I really wasn't sure which one to use, which is a separate noob issue of mine) but when running it, it tells me that it cannot run under the root user.

Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance.

Harris
Sorry, I realize this belongs in the 64-bit thread! I'll recreate it there.

Pelo

exaile downloaded from Salix PPM does not start.

#208 Post by Pelo »

Slacko 6.3.0 (32 bit) exaile downloaded from Salix PPM does not start.
What applications are really available from PPM, that is the question..

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#209 Post by Médor »

Hi Pelo,

Did you check and install all dependencies :?:
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Pelo

su spot !

#210 Post by Pelo »

All dependencies have been kept toggled.
Cannot be run as root :evil: su spot ! is the first bug resolved
Python would'nt be at the right place
Slacko is not responsible of bugs in Exaile. Slacko is responsible not to help its users, for applications. Unless Medor came
Tempestuous and Philb666, Vicmz are responsive guys too. .
BK always took time to answers questions,
Tempestous said in the past that it's better to choose older versions , because no prohibition done to root.
Exaile prevents our developers to get pleasure, but users never asked for that 8)

Pelo

I'm posting from Slacko 5.5.0.2,

#211 Post by Pelo »

." As it happens I'm posting from Slacko 5.5.0.2, which may be obsolete but is still a good all-round workhorse IMO." El amigo colonel panic
A puppy is never obsolete as it is needed to run computers still active in our houses. Puppies for replacing millions of XP are now the most needed..

A Puppy could be useless in the contrary if it's released to run technologies that only one or two users need (3D, bluetooth)

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#212 Post by cypher51 »

01micko,

Installed Slacko 6.3.0 using the LICK boot-loader on a eee pc 1100 and it works just great. Being that this 'puter refuses to boot from a usb key this is a great alternative to make a Win 7 machine actually usable. I did use the Slacko 5.7 .exe file for a while, but this is a little more up to date.

Thanks for Slacko 6.3.0 32 bit and all your hard work that goes into a project such as this.

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#213 Post by Mike Walsh »

Well, now.....

This is my fourth attempt in as many months to install Slacko 6.3.0 as a frugal to a USB stick.

Every time I try, it installs fine. it'll run fine. But as soon as I install any packages from either PPM or pets or SFS files, the system slows down to a crawl. On shut down, it takes far longer than even a USB install should to save to the save-folder; as often as not, it 'saves' to the save-folder for ever, never reaching power off.....and when I try to re-boot, it refuses to see the save-folder, or indeed any of the system SFS files.

'#Dropping out to initial ramdisk console.....'

I have to use a USB stick, as I have no more room on the HDD for extra Pups, and no wish to delete what I do have on here. I have an external USB HDD, yes.....but you can't boot from it, as it runs off a USB 3.0 adapter card in my solitary PCI-e slot; and that doesn't support booting.

I've installed Pups to USB many times before, without a hint of a problem. With 630, I'm having to shut the system down with a hard power-off.....which, naturally, is corrupting the file system. I've never had to do this before with any of my Pups; and when the drive is examined, it invariably insists that gParted cannot read the file-system, and I keep getting the 'Libparted bug' window come up (the instant I power-off the drive). Then, of course, gParted starts normally, and says (naturally enough) that it can't find the specified drive.....

Both Phil's Tahrpup 6.05 and Tahr64 6.05 run like a dream on here. So does 570. So, too, do Precise 571, ETP's 'Chromepup', and X-Slacko 2.3.2. (That lot ought to be enough to keep anyone busy, eh?)

I give up with it. Can't say I haven't tried! Mick's obviously put a lot of hard work into this, and by all accounts, it's working great for most people. I'm going to hazard a guess that this might be due to newer kernels, and losing support for older hardware. That was, after all, what drove me to Puppy from Ubuntu; the never-ending updates, and the increasingly newer kernels, almost every week. I guessed it would even happen here in Puppyland, eventually; it looks like it's finally begun. (*sigh*)

I'm just happy there's so many other Pups to choose from that do work so well with this elderly hardware..!


Mike. :?

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USB flash drive install

#214 Post by sheldonisaac »

Mike Walsh (in part) wrote:This is my fourth attempt in as many months to install Slacko 6.3.0 as a frugal to a USB stick.

Every time I try, it installs fine. it'll run fine. But as soon as I install any packages from either PPM or pets or SFS files, the system slows down to a crawl. On shut down, it takes far longer than even a USB install should to save to the save-folder; as often as not, it 'saves' to the save-folder for ever, never reaching power off.....and when I try to re-boot, it refuses to see the save-folder, or indeed any of the system SFS files.
Mike, I'm an old non-expert. Maybe someone can figure it out.

I formatted a USB stick.to ext4, and copied onto it files from an existing frugal hard drive installation. Set boot flag, did grub4dosconfig, and booted. Rebooted, did save folder.

Installed pmusic 5.01, and ran that program,

Rebooted.

Seemed OK. pmusic is still there, works.

Anyone, let me know what further tests to do.

Thanks, Sheldon
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The USB stick is about 500MB.
The computer is the Dell E6410 laptop.
Dell E6410: BusterPup, BionicPup64, Xenial, etc
Intel DQ35JOE, Dell Vostro 430
Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P

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#215 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hi, Sheldon.

My problem is the old one that has reared its head quite a bit in the last year to 18 months. Apparently there's been quite a number of folks having the issue where the machine, upon boot, simply doesn't 'see' the Puppy files.....and of course, it won't boot.

But when this issue occurs, invariably the drive is 'fried', so to put it......you can't do anything with it; gParted doesn't detect it; none of the normal file-system tools will so much as admit it's even attached to the system..!

When this happens, there's a 'dd' routine I have to run to totally 'zero-blank' the drive, and remove absolutely everything from it. Then it needs the MBR and everything setting up again. Bluntly, it's a pain in the a***..!

I'm starting to think some of the trouble can be attached to the SanDisk Cruzer 'Blade' USB sticks I use. They're known for having problems.....but they're cheap, and easily available. And my income doesn't allow of purchasing top-end sticks..... :(


Mike.

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