Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[marquitico]

Please help a new Puppy who is also a (whimper) Windows refugee. (There. I said it.)

I am using Puppy to help learn Linux before buying a new computer on which I will install (I hope) some complete distro on its own partition. I want to learn simple routine tasks, such as installing new software, for example. To do this I picked xzip, a simple, small interpreter for z-machine interactive fiction games.

I couldn't locate a Puppy package for this, so I thought this topic would help me install what I need to be able to compile source code for myself.

[marquitico]

Running Puppy 1.0.4, by the way. Sorry, forgetful.

Mark
"marquitico"

[Guest]

you could also have a look at the opttools thread too...


The only prob is that Puppy uses glibc-2.3.2 and slackware-10.1 uses glibc-2.3.4 there maybe some prob's there

[masinick]

I had a positive recommendation from a friend about trying out Chubby Puppy. I already have Puppy 1.0.4 and like it very much.

There is a link on the main Puppy site to a gentleman who kindly provided a "Rolls Royce" Chubby Puppy Edition, but I have not been able to access it this evening.

Is this offering still available? Is there a second source for it, or will the posted site be back online again soon?

I see that there are many ways now to extend Puppy, but I was hoping not to have to invest a great deal of time into that myself, at least not right at this moment (though in the future, who knows, I may start doing extensions myself).

For now, I'd appreciate a way to get the already created edition dubbed "Chubby Puppy".

Great stuff in here, especially some of this cutting edge stuff. When I get more free time, I certainly WOULD LOVE to experiment more with it myself!

[Lobster]

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/PuppyP2PDistribution

[marquitico]

bladehunter:

Thank you, I'll give it a try! May I ask: I found the glibc-2.3.2 in Slackware 9.1, so should I get the gcc and binutils in 9.1 as well?

masinick:

I'm actually running Chubby Puppy. Works beautifully. Download is slow though, and the host seems to have little bandwidth. Maybe the BitTorrent P2P download thingy is a better idea.

If P2P doesn't work and you need to try downloading Chubby from the website, I have the following observation: the host rejects multiple simultaneous connections from the client as a means of saving bandwidth, so if you use a download manager of some kind, you need to force the number of simultaneous downloading streams to one. Makes the download slowwww but it worked for me.

Mark
"marquitico"

[Lobster]

Not sure what I mean

Now that I have Vector Linux running inside Puppy gonna have another go at compiling C
- can not be that hard (in fact it ain't 'coz I did it once . . . - in another dimension it may have been . . .)

[BarryK]

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