Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

edoc · Posted: Sun 07 Dec 2008, 13:59 Post subject:

How would I load this cleanly into Puppy 4.11, please?

I know that a PET or DotPup has been structured to put things in the correct Puppy-specific directories and folders but have not had very good experiences with non-Puppy application and games.

WDYT?

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1758

I believe you have a tool called tgz2pet which will convert slackware packages -make sure you have downloaded the correct *.tgz file and not the sources (tar.bz2 archive)

edoc · Posted: Sun 07 Dec 2008, 21:45 Post subject:

Interestingly SuperTux installed without error and appeared in the Menu under Fun after a Reboot.

However, when clicked it does not execute nor does it generate an error.

However, when I open a console/rxvt and type "supertux" I get the error that it cannot find libSDL_image-1.2.so.0

This is on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-28

So, I loaded libSDL_full.pet then tried uperTux from the menu - it balced the screen then till didn't run.

So I opened console/rxvt again and types supertux again and this time got:

Datadir: /usr/bin/../share/supertux
Warning: No joysticks are available

Error: Couldn't load musicfile
/usr/bin/../share/supertux/music/SALCON.MOD

This appears to confirm my prior concern that tgz2pet may not handle all of the folder/library needs - is that a fair assessment?

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 14:59 Post subject:

edoc · Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 16:15 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2008, 04:04 Post subject:

edoc · Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2008, 10:44 Post subject:

I apologize for being so terse and not communicating my gratitude - I cannot express how much I appreciate all that you folks do on this Forum!

I did have SuperTux working without sound before - which is why I was chasing the openGL problem - but the smaller the packge of the app is and the fewer the resources used the better, esp. on this ancient CF-27 laptop. So thanks! Smile

Meanwhile I will download some of the other .PET games - perhaps some of them will provide sound for the kiddies ... on the headphones.

BTW: A few months back I posted a bunch of learning games for Linux - would it be worth posting them again in hopes that someone might package them as .PETs?

edoc · Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2008, 12:44 Post subject:

edoc · Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2008, 21:07 Post subject:

Anyone made this into a .PET yet?
http://pingus.seul.org/download.html

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

Yup, Pingus has been petted. Smile

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=213252

Looks cool. I'll have to add it when I have time.

Sorry I haven't been much help on the whole SuperTux episode Edoc. SuperTux works fine for me in Pup 3.01, but Puppy 4 won't run on my laptop so I couldn't have been of assistance. It's funny cause that error:

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

After Edoc mentioned it I tested it out too, and when you click the actual download links, half of them take you to Freehostia's homepage, and the others display gibberish.

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

When you want to download a PET try Right click -> Save Link Target As... ?

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

The ones with the gibberish download, the others when told to save as display '6cH74VwS.html.part" (for example)