Direct installation of packages from Puppy Unleashed

[richardanz]

I have a fat puppy installation with Puppy Unleashed expanded on a separate drive. I was surprised to find that all the packages are fully expanded- (is this normal? or have I missed a switch somewhere and over done the expansion). Because the packages are expanded Pupget won't see them. Is there some way I can install them- e.g. copy to .packages and run make, make install. Or perhaps repackage them so that Pupget can see them? I have to install python and perl to get the HP Deskjet F380 running, and what with wanting to run Open Office I thought that it would be a good idea to just buy the CD and install from the source. save a lot of down loading. BTW this is by far the best OS I have ever used- I WILL make it do everything I want it too. Shame that I have forgotten so much from Mandrake 6 days.
Thanks

[muggins]

richardanz ,

don't know about the main part of your query, but perl is included in devx_213.sfs from here:

http://puppyos.net/test/

there's a couple of python pups, ranging from cut-down to full:


http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 119&t=9558

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 119&t=7532

[JohnMc]

Before you get too far along you might want to try the driver located here --
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cg ... skJet_F375

It has the pdd for the 375 so it should be a close match. Might try using it with CUPS or XPdq to see if you can get it to print.

[richardanz]

The HPLIP driver that you mentioned is what requires perl and python- the driver seems to have a lot of scripts written in these languages. I installed it OK and there appear to be no dependancy issues ( according to the checker in Pupget) but I can't find an executable to fire it all up. As to the links- you are correct I could download the dotpups for python- which would then defeat the purpose of buying a CD with them on it, not so much of a problem with 10 MB packages - that is only an hour or so, but the open office is over 100 MB and I have a five hour connection limit. Curl doesn't pick up after a disconnection and I haven't been able to get Aria or Wget to run. Possibly because make doesn't work yet - no C compiler working as yet. Not sure what I am doing wrong there. So much to do - so little time to do it!

[craftybytes]

richardanz,
To your original question - just install MU's - 'Dotpup-wizard-mu06.pup' - then open up your "unleashed" folder and 'drag-&-drop' the folder's of the packages you want (one at a time of course) into the wizard's popup window and it will create a 'dotpup' for each that you can then install as a proper 'xxx.pup' file - OK..

HTH..

[muggins]

i thought wget came standard with puppy? or what about this link by klh, for aria2c downloader. it's already compiled & ready to run:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 63&t=10159