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#106 Post by bones01 »

Just used this to convert Gimp beta .pet to .sfs and it worked great.

cheers.

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#107 Post by Jim1911 »

Trio's utility is great, however, it needs update. I used it to try to install an sfs on a full install of luci-235. Started the operation and left for a few hours. When I returned, not only had the sfs not installed, but it wiped two partitions clean. That bad experience hasn't stopped me from using Petmaker Plus to prepare pets and sfs though. It'd be great if someone updated it's sfs install feature.

Don't use the sfs install feature on the newer distributions.

Jim

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#108 Post by dougeeebear »

Jim1911 wrote:Trio's utility is great, however, it needs update. I used it to try to install an sfs on a full install of luci-235. Started the operation and left for a few hours. When I returned, not only had the sfs not installed, but it wiped two partitions clean. That bad experience hasn't stopped me from using Petmaker Plus to prepare pets and sfs though. It'd be great if someone updated it's sfs install feature.

Don't use the sfs install feature on the newer distributions.

Jim
The same exact thing happened to me.
It wiped all the partitions on the SSD plus it wiped the SD card.
It was pre-loaded in Puppeee.
Jemimah has now removed it.

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#109 Post by scsijon »

If you want to install sfs's, don't use this, use his sfs-Installer instead, it's a stand alone app and it does work. (t=44765), at least with my 5.11.

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#110 Post by 01micko »

Note to lucid puppy 5.2 users:

5.2 has the ability to install sfs files out of the box via Quickpet. Read here

It will download an sfs by copy and paste if the sfs link is a direct link to the file or you can install a local sfs from anywhere on your system by drag and drop.

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#111 Post by scsijon »

have pm's trio as he was on system today and asked if he could update for us, I still consider it the easiest way to try out an application.

hopefully he will reply soon.

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#112 Post by trio »

scsijon wrote:have pm's trio as he was on system today and asked if he could update for us, I still consider it the easiest way to try out an application.

hopefully he will reply soon.
Hi,

I'll see what I can do ... will disassemble PETMAKER_PLUS to just PETMAKER, many people now has many ways of dealing with SFS and so on...and so on .. I have only a little spare time

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#113 Post by trio »

New Version 2.0 - tested in LUPU 520 (frugal usb), stripped out pet2sfs and install sfs
download at main post

Feedbacks are welcome

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#114 Post by zigbert »

good to see you around Trio


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#115 Post by Jim1911 »

Duplicate.
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#116 Post by Jim1911 »

Trio,

Glad to have you back.

Thanks for the update and for keeping the capability to create an sfs file. It has worked well for me. You may want to rename it PET/SFS MAKER-2.0.

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#117 Post by trio »

Sigmund

Good to be "back" also .... :lol:

Jim1911

Hi, glad it works .... as for naming ... I like petmaker .... it sounds like pet (as in animal pet) creator ....

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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#118 Post by trio »

v 2.1 - Window unresizable and rxvt embedded in pet maker window

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#119 Post by sc0ttman »

trio wrote:v 2.1 - Window unresizable and rxvt embedded in pet maker window
Where can I get the rxvt package which supports the -embed option?
Which system are you using, Trio?
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#120 Post by trio »

scottman,

I have only lupu 520 with me, so I can't check, but I'm most certain, it's the same rxvt ....

Edit: or is it not the same rxvt in lupu 520???

Maybe somebody using puppy version older than Lupu can help me check if rxvt can be embedded in the petmaker window? does it still work even if it isn't embbedded or it doesn't work at all

thanks

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#121 Post by trio »

v 2.1 - Only for LUPU 520 - Window unresizable and rxvt embedded (different rxvt)
New v 2.0 - tested in lupu 520/general puppies, left out sfs2pet and sfs install

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Adding Symlinks to Pets created with Petmaker

#122 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but it is possible to include symbolic links (symlinks) in pets created with Petmaker.

I run many of my applications from "Program Folders," that is an entire application --such as Firefox, Iron, and the XP version of Foxit Reader under Wine-- which has been decompressed into a folder outside of the SaveFile. To provide easy access, I then create a script in /my-application/bin which will call the application, and a desktop file which calls the script and creates a menu entry.
I recently tried to do that with XAMPP (formerly LAMPP) but ran into a snag. The entire lampp folder is supposed to be decompressed to /opt and threw up errors when I tried to run it from /mnt/home via a script. Symlinking the folder to /opt avoided the errors, but I thought the symlink couldn't be included in a Pet. But what the heck, no pain, no gain.
So I called up my trusty Petmaker and discovered it was "too smart." When I tried to include the symlink, it took me to the lampp folder.
Ignoring that for the moment, I used Petmaker to include in its build directory all the files I otherwise needed. Then I opened the build directory, right-clicked and created an opt directory. Used my file manager to open a window to /opt, dragged the symlink file from it to the opt folder in the build directory and selected copy. The symlink file copied, but indicated it was broken. Completed making the pet, and then tested it in other Puppies on the computer. They successfully opened the application, which means that once installed the symlink was no longer "broken," i.e. pointing to the wrong location.

Short version: after using Petmaker to include all non-symlink files, open the build directory, manually create the folder structure to hold the symbolic link and copy the symbolic link into it.

Happy computing

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I wish I'd read this earlier today

#123 Post by bones01 »

dougeeebear wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Trio's utility is great, however, it needs update. I used it to try to install an sfs on a full install of luci-235. Started the operation and left for a few hours. When I returned, not only had the sfs not installed, but it wiped two partitions clean. That bad experience hasn't stopped me from using Petmaker Plus to prepare pets and sfs though. It'd be great if someone updated it's sfs install feature.

Don't use the sfs install feature on the newer distributions.

Jim
The same exact thing happened to me.
It wiped all the partitions on the SSD plus it wiped the SD card.
It was pre-loaded in Puppeee.
Jemimah has now removed it.
How different things would be if I'd read this before. The feature I really liked with PetmakerPlus was the pet2sfs option, which had worked well for me before. I was having some Gimp troubles, so installed petmakerplus.pet (I kept the .pet from last time) and while I did get some error message, I didn't understand it, and petmaker appeared in the utility menu, so I went ahead.

Now I have no root/mydocuments directory, and I don't have the files that were in that directory. I didn't think I'd need to back up for this.

I really like all that trio has done. His work makes some things much easier to work with and makes a duffer like me think I can make things happen. Unfortunately, this one hasn't worked.

If you find my missing files at your place, feel free to send them back. :wink:

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Petmaker 2.2

#124 Post by scsijon »

With Trio's approval I hereby release version 2.2.

What I have done is use another base directory, instead of $HOME/my documents I have modified it to use $HOME/make-pet and added script to create it if it's not there.

My wish is to eventually separate source and output directories at another level, but that's the next step.

regards

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#125 Post by harii4 »

FYi :D
title said:
PET MAKER - 2.1 - End of Feb 2011
Petmaker 2.2 is now out. :D

keep up the good work.
Petmaker 2.2 works great in TXZ_Pup.
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