What is the correct way to upgrade Gnumeric in Puppy 2.02?
I've found a lot of information on installing new packages and rolling your own Puppy CD, but nothing on upgrading installed packages.
I want to upgrade Gnumeric v1.4.3 which came with Puppy to the current v1.5.1. Puppy has its own hard disk drive partition.
Thanks, Dyno
FULL BACKGROUND:
I installed standard Puppy 2.02 which came with Gnumeric v1.4.3, and it works fine, except it can't save to a locally mounted FAT-16 partition. It can save to the local Puppy partition.
The system in question has a NTFS Windows NT OS partition, NTFS swap partition, Puppy Linux partition, Puppy Swap partition, and shared FAT-16 for data.
The Write application can save to the FAT-16 partition's folder in question, and the .XLS file saved locally can be moved to the FAT-16 folder. It therefore has something to do with Gnumeric saving to the FAT-16 partition.
Gnumeric news shows v1.5.1 fixes several file-save issues.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ ... 1.5.1.html
It seems that upgrading Gnumeric has a good shot at fixing the issue.
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2.6 Kernel Supporting FAT-16
That's an interesting thought, that the kernel option might have been disabled and the kernel compiled without FAT-16 support. However, if the 2.02 Puppy kernel didn't support FAT-16 partitions I wouldn't be able to mount the partition, nor copy a file to it.
In /etc/fstab, I use: /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 msdos defaults 0 2
Thanks for the idea, but I'll need to try something else.
In /etc/fstab, I use: /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 msdos defaults 0 2
Thanks for the idea, but I'll need to try something else.
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SOLVED
Thanks Mark! I upgraded Gnumeric.
Unfortunately, it did not solve the file-save problem, which turned out to be Gnumeric trying to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition.
A new topic will be started on this:
How do I get Puppy to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition?
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=69197
Unfortunately, it did not solve the file-save problem, which turned out to be Gnumeric trying to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition.
A new topic will be started on this:
How do I get Puppy to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition?
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=69197