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From time to time I have run scripts I had copied from the forum. Only to find that they used command flags that were not available in the older versions of Puppy.
As a result I have compiled the latest coreutils package that was available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ without stripping anything out. I did however seperate the documentation and localisation parts into their own directories. From there I have created three dotpets.

To avoid conflicts with the coreutils that are already installed in Puppy I have named each command with the suffix -NEW . To use these commands install the dotpet as normal and edit the script that was not working by changing the name of the problem command to command -NEW and then saving your changes.

The commands in this package are:

/usr/bin/chgrp-NEW
/usr/bin/chown-NEW
/usr/bin/chmod-NEW
/usr/bin/cp-NEW
/usr/bin/dd-NEW
/usr/bin/dircolors-NEW
/usr/bin/du-NEW
/usr/bin/install-NEW
/usr/bin/link-NEW
/usr/bin/ln-NEW
/usr/bin/dir-NEW
/usr/bin/vdir-NEW
/usr/bin/ls-NEW
/usr/bin/mkdir-NEW
/usr/bin/mkfifo-NEW
/usr/bin/mknod-NEW
/usr/bin/mv-NEW
/usr/bin/nohup-NEW
/usr/bin/readlink-NEW
/usr/bin/rm-NEW
/usr/bin/rmdir-NEW
/usr/bin/shred-NEW
/usr/bin/stat-NEW
/usr/bin/sync-NEW
/usr/bin/touch-NEW
/usr/bin/unlink-NEW
/usr/bin/cat-NEW
/usr/bin/cksum-NEW
/usr/bin/comm-NEW
/usr/bin/csplit-NEW
/usr/bin/cut-NEW
/usr/bin/expand-NEW
/usr/bin/fmt-NEW
/usr/bin/fold-NEW
/usr/bin/head-NEW
/usr/bin/join-NEW
/usr/bin/md5sum-NEW
/usr/bin/nl-NEW
/usr/bin/od-NEW
/usr/bin/paste-NEW
/usr/bin/pr-NEW
/usr/bin/ptx-NEW
/usr/bin/sha1sum-NEW
/usr/bin/sha224sum-NEW
/usr/bin/sha256sum-NEW
/usr/bin/sha384sum-NEW
/usr/bin/sha512sum-NEW
/usr/bin/shuf-NEW
/usr/bin/sort-NEW
/usr/bin/split-NEW
/usr/bin/sum-NEW
/usr/bin/tac-NEW
/usr/bin/tail-NEW
/usr/bin/tr-NEW
/usr/bin/tsort-NEW
/usr/bin/unexpand-NEW
/usr/bin/uniq-NEW
/usr/bin/wc-NEW
/usr/bin/basename-NEW
/usr/bin/date-NEW
/usr/bin/dirname-NEW
/usr/bin/echo-NEW
/usr/bin/env-NEW
/usr/bin/expr-NEW
/usr/bin/factor-NEW
/usr/bin/false-NEW
/usr/bin/hostname-NEW
/usr/bin/id-NEW
/usr/bin/kill-NEW
/usr/bin/logname-NEW
/usr/bin/pathchk-NEW
/usr/bin/printenv-NEW
/usr/bin/printf-NEW
/usr/bin/pwd-NEW
/usr/bin/seq-NEW
/usr/bin/sleep-NEW
/usr/bin/tee-NEW
/usr/bin/test-NEW
/usr/bin/true-NEW
/usr/bin/tty-NEW
/usr/bin/whoami-NEW
/usr/bin/yes-NEW
/usr/bin/base64-NEW
/usr/bin/uname-NEW
/usr/bin/chroot-NEW
/usr/bin/hostid-NEW
/usr/bin/nice-NEW
/usr/bin/pinky-NEW
/usr/bin/users-NEW
/usr/bin/who-NEW
/usr/bin/uptime-NEW
/usr/bin/stty-NEW
/usr/bin/df-NEW
/usr/bin/groups-NEW
/usr/bin/su-NEW

Where must i put the coreutils.mo? In what directory?
No results after insatllation of NSL pet file. Regards.

Hi, "billwho?".

Thanks for this and I appreciate the methodology, I mean adding "-NEW" to avoid crushing the utilities that Puppy already has, and dividing your offer in three pets.

I couldn't help but noticing, however, that you are offering v. 8.6, whereas the current gnu coreutils are at v. 8.20. Please see ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.20.tar.xz. Or are these gnu coreutils something entirely different?

Thanks in advance for your answer and best regards.

musher0

Spaccafumo wrote:Where must i put the coreutils.mo? In what directory?
No results after insatllation of NSL pet file. Regards.

The location of the Italian coreutils.mo should be in directory
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES

You can try attached for version 8.20

FIRST: add this line in /etc/profile:
export FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1
------------------------------------------------------------------
SECOND: reboot
------------------------------------------------------------------
THIRD: ./configure and make
------------------------------------------------------------------
NO "make install" but a backup of the "src" directory which contains all the executables. Just copy them in /usr/local/bin
when you need.
------------------------------------------------------------------
As Easter mini-egg:i upload "fmt".
Regards.

You don't need to export or reboot, Just run the config command like this:
FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure