Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

panzerpuppy · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 632

Puppy 4.3 Bugs and nitpicks:

- If you open the Puppy Package Manager and click inside the empty box (Installed Packages) below,you are prompted to uninstall a non-existing package named "
You can select 'YES' and complete the uninstall (LOL)

- Puppy 4.3 beta is still using an old build of JWM - you can't resize windows from the top Sad

- Alsa Mixer and the other utilities are not updated (still at v1.0.16)

- Puppy 4.3 needs a cursor theme selector (as in 4.2)

panzerpuppy · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 632

More feedback:

- The OSMO organiser included in 4.3beta1 is a bit old (0.2.0). The latest version is 0.2.6

- The Superpup wallpaper needs to go. The previous one was much better.

- GLightsOff is also a good candidate for removal - the game is not fun at all.

- 90% of the small (16x16) icons in the menus need a serious facelift. Most of them look archaic (4-color Windows 95 crap).

Lobster · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 06:08 Post subject:

was able to use libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.pet from here (this gives fullscreen youtube)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/AdobeFlashPlayer Now if I can get Openoffice and xaraLX working, I will be happy . . .

My old SFS for xaraLX and OpenOffice are not showing up in the bootmanager. I seem to remember this is a known bug? I renamed them with OpenOffice310_JRE_lzma_423.sfs (for example) but they are not showing up in the bootmanager. is something amiss?

trio · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 07:35 Post subject:

Mr Crustacean,

Yeah, you surely missed something, Barry did that on purpose. Read his blog entry, few entries back. Any incompatible SFS will be not be listed and won't be attempted to load

Lobster · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 08:43 Post subject:

Bum!

just been informed, so not a bug

GrumpyWolfe · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 496

Hi All
I was just about to say I have a bug then read the post about incompatible sfs's. But did not think that was going to affect the save files. At one time I think I remember puppylinux offering to upgrade a save file or something like that. If I was to rename it to the new name system would it then offer to convert it.

Just curies

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 10:07 Post subject:

1. Began installing packages:
fox-1.6.31
xfe-1.19.2
firefox-3.5
wine-1.0
htop-0.8.1
nmap-4.76
All OK up to here.

2. Tried to install:
(a) captura.pup
Was warned I needed to install:
dotpuphandler
puppybasic
Using the Puppy Package Manager.

(b) Could only find in "puppy-3->Setup":
dotpup_downloader-05d-mu

(c) Installed that, and it was reported there were no missing dependencies, but still any attempt to open captura.pup resulted in the same warning as 2a above.

3. How should I install pup files?

Fox7777 · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 132 Location: Lacey, WA

Puppy Linux has so far been the Linux distro of choice on older or lower capacity computers because it is small and fast but the black screen of death when the power is suddenly interrupted, etc. has been a problem because of the support calls we get. We do need the black screen bugfix incorporated into future Puppy releases.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

Sylander,

As a work around to install a pup package, use these steps.
(1) Make a new directory in /
(2) copy the pup package to that directory and rename with ext of zip
(3) Click on the renamed package and extract all files.
(4) Run the script file that is included.
(5) Delete the directory you created.
Run Refresh Menus or restart x to get menu entry if included.

Hope that helps.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

1. 4.3 beta recognizes, mounts and can read/write to ext4 partitions.
2. Gparted 0.4.5 successfully resized a large ext3 partition and created an ext4 partition on the freed space.
3. A frugal installation on that ext4 partition results in a grub error which prevents it from running.

Other observations:
1. Tried unsuccessfully to install these .pets from the official repository. They appeared to install and were listed in the menu, but would not run due to many missing dependencies.
gnome-games-Lite_2.26.1-i486-uj
pidgin-2.4.1
gimp-2.6.6-i486-uj
gimp-2.4.0-rc3
2. Successfully installed:
gtk_theme_stardust_zigbert-0.5
galculator-1.3.1

Please consider for 4.3 and woof:
1. Updating initrd.gz so that a frugal installation will work on ext4.
2. Providing an option to create ext3 and ext4 pup_save files.

Lobster · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 10:43 Post subject:

Instead of using the unversal installer to create a Puppy USB flash drive (did not work first time) I decided to use the 'Bootflash Install', which seemed easier and worked first time.
So was able to boot straight into Puppy 4.3 Beta on my Asus netbook.
So that was good Cool

but could not connect to the net with WPA2 encryption (I think it is still not supported?)

gposil · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 11:11 Post subject: Re Grub and ext4

From the ext4 wiki....

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3704

Grub bootloader config is not creating a menu.lst file. It does create /boot/grub in the partition I enter (dev/sda1) and all the "stages" are in there but no menu.lst. What I get is the Working, please wait for a much longer time than usual and then no menu.lst.

This is for a frugal install with advanced 2.29 kernel. It happens with both ext4 and ext2. I am using both vmware and virtualbox and it happens with both; it also happened with 4.3prebeta-reloaded.

It is difficult for me to test natively, so perhaps someone could do a frugal install with the advanced kernel and check for menu.lst after running Grub bootloader config--very likely this is a problem with the virtualizers... thanks

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 15 Aug 2009, 12:01 Post subject:

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3704

would it be possible to include libshadowfb.so with the basic Puppy? It is included in xorg_xorg_full (for 4.2.1); it is necessary for the two virtualizers vmware and virtualbox to use their own video drivers. If it is present in /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules then vmware works out of the box with its own vmware_drv (which is included in the basic Puppy). If it is not present then X will not start from xorgwizard because xorgwizard chooses the vmware_drv which will not start without libshadowfb.so. thanks