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[PappyPuppy]

Can I take a .pet and explode it and find the other dependencies they list and build this for Linux Mint?

[PappyPuppy]

So I wanted to just install pburn as it's a reliable tool and it doesn't have a 20 minute install process only to fail.

[PappyPuppy]

I'll have to buy a writer or use an external one.

[PappyPuppy]

It's dark above my pc and I hadn't seen it there.

[mikeslr]

Hi PappyPuppy,

You didn't mention which version of LinuxMint. Sometimes that will be a factor in determining whether an application built for Puppy can be ported to another Distro. When an application contains compiled binaries and libraries, those must be compatible. To find out what parts are in an application/pet, you can download and unpack it (i.e., Right-Click>UExtract). PBurn, however, primarily consists of bash-scripts and some text files. There's a good chance that bash-scripts are transportable, but sometimes the bash-versions, and so the commands used in the scripts, will differ from one version to another.

Each distro will have its own method of packaging applications. However, when a pet (or SFS) is transportable, what you can do is unpack puppy app, then copy its files and folders into the corresponding locations in the other distro. Not very elegant.

The reason I think that PBurn can't be ported, is that it was built as a Rox-app. Linux-mint, to use it, would have to include Rox (? perhaps not as its default file-manager?) but also have Rox configured to use Rox-apps.

Beyond that, PBurn doesn't include any compiled binaries. In the place where compiled binaries might be located is a bash-script. What that suggests to me is that somewhere among the bash-scripts within PBurn are calls to compiled binaries otherwise located within Puppy, and those binaries make use of firmware and drivers libraries, also already located within Puppy. In other words, PBurn is a front-end to the components (binaries, firmware and drivers) which are necessary for the Puppy Operating System to access and make use of the external peripherals, CDs and DVDs.

Suggest running LinuxMint, you do things its way. As I recall, in addition to apt and synaptic, LinuxMint has an application which categorizes applications and will provide assessments of each available application you can install.

mikesLr

[PappyPuppy]

[jrb]

[Mike Walsh]

@ PappyPuppy:-

I have to agree with Mikeslr. pBurn, as written for its native environment, makes multiple calls to binaries/libraries/other scripts which are already an integral part of Pup itself.

True Linux programming/coding skill comes with learning to write the scripts that tie all these together. I produce quite a few packages of various sorts for Puppy.....but I mostly do so where I can 'assemble' pre-compiled binaries & libraries from other sources.

My scripting skills are absolute rubbish, and I'll be the first to admit that. I will never, ever be able to approach the skill levels of our multiple 'devs', and the small core of regular 'coders' who form, and contribute to the 'Woof-CE' team.....who have helped to make Puppy what it is today. These guys can talk, think & write in code as naturally as most of the rest of us do something simple like breathing..!

Packages do get 'ported' from one distro to another.....but it's an involved business. If you want to pull .pet packages to bits so's you can study the structure, etc., the easiest way, I find, is to install and use SFR's 'UExtract'. This, I believe, is a Puppy 'special'; you won't find this anywhere else.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87864

Hope some of that helps.


Mike.

[PappyPuppy]

I've sometimes simply taken a .deb file and somehow got it to work on Fatdog - how I don't know - it just worked. Linux is linux - there's not much that's different.

[Semme]

UExtract utilizes "ar" via rt-clk.

[fredx181]

Aside from installing the correct dependencies:
One important thing for most gtkdialog based apps is that /bin/sh should be a symlink to /bin/bash (instead of /bin/dash, which is the case on most Debian/Ubuntu based distro's) otherwise it won't work properly in most cases.
So, do:

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