Want straight up access to all Ubuntu/Debian packages?

[shanali4]

Apt-Get is not working on my puppy linux plz help

[tgp1994]

Make sure you extracted it correctly.

[shanali4]

Make sure you extracted it correctly.

What should be extracted. I have extracted nothing

[tgp1994]

Well, then that poses the question; "What did you do?"

Did you install it by double clicking on the debian package? (
That actually isn't the proper way to do it, you can find some instructions on the first post or the wiki page I created.

[tgp1994]

Ok, I figured out the answer to the problem of "Cannot detect suitable environment."

The reason the error is coming up is because dpkg is not installed. I will update the wiki page right away.

[cprivers]

I got it installed with Synaptic, but when I run Synapyic, there is nothing on the page. How to I get the repositories?

Thanks,

Chuck

[tgp1994]

Chuck,

Are the repositories added in your sources.list file? Check the file in /etc/apt/sources.list, and if you wouldn't mind pasting it here, that would help

If you need a list of repositories, take a look at my article here, then in the Steps section, scroll down to part 12. Make sure you follow the steps all the way though.

[cprivers]

Chuck,

Are the repositories added in your sources.list file? Check the file in /etc/apt/sources.list, and if you wouldn't mind pasting it here, that would help

If you need a list of repositories, take a look at my article here, then in the Steps section, scroll down to part 12. Make sure you follow the steps all the way though.

There was no file in my computer, so I grabbed one from my Ubuntu install & changed Karmic to Lucid, then did an update. Right now Synaptic is missing the icons that show what is installed, etc. I read that I have to install the hicolor icons and found a link to download them, but I am supposed to run MAKE to install them on the computer, and MAKE does not appear to be in the installation. Apt-get seems to be working, but I sure would like to have Synaptic so I can see what is there! Have you tried it?

If it ain't one thing, it's another!
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If it was easy, anybody could do it, and you would be out of a job!

[technosaurus]

It's been so long since I have used a .deb based system,
I have forgotten exactly where it is,
but there is a file(s) that keeps track of what packages are installed.
... something like /var/cache/apt-cache ??

in woof based puppies the corresponding files are in
$HOME/.packages/woof-installed-packages
(for 99.9% of puppy users $HOME is /root)

... has anyone tried mapping the latter to the former yet?
seems like a waste of time/bandwidth to download a deb for something that you already have (and potential for breakage)

[tgp1994]

If it ain't one thing, it's another!

Oh, I hear ya

Unfortunately, I was more intending my tutorial towards debian than ubuntu, and I thought it would be much of the same process.
However, you should be able to run apt-get install make, which should get you what you need.

@technosaurus:
You're right, I think that's where apt-get stores what it downloads. You're also right, it would make sense to symlink one directory to other. I would symlink the home based cache folder to the /var/cache folder, since puppy is more of a single user system anyways. (Would make more sense to store the cache in /var/cache folder.)

Whoops, completely misinterpreted your post.

I know for sure that there's some sort of database, although I still have no clue where it is. You're right though, it would be a good idea to link one to the other.

[technosaurus]

if someone could upload a tarball of their apt-cache right after installing apt and then after installing a simple package (like dash maybe?),
I may be able to figure something out?

[cprivers]

I have already run apt several times, so I may not be of much help. However, if I can help, and if you can tell me exactly how to get you what you want, I'll do it. I would need step-by step instructions because I don't even remember how to make a tarball!

Chuck

[technosaurus]

Code: Select all

tar -cf tarball.tar /var/cache/apt-cache   #(<--if that is the directory?)
gzip -9 tarball.tar

[cprivers]

Code: Select all

tar -cf tarball.tar /var/cache/apt-cache   #(<--if that is the directory?)
gzip -9 tarball.tar

OK, so make the tarball, install Dash, then make another tarball?

Chuck

[tgp1994]

Code: Select all

tar -cf tarball.tar /var/cache/apt-cache   #(<--if that is the directory?)
gzip -9 tarball.tar

OK, so make the tarball, install Dash, then make another tarball?

Chuck

Dash??

What he's going to have you do is first compress /var/cache/apt-cache with tar, then compress that with gzip at the highest possible compression, giving you a .tar.gz file.

[dada]

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[cprivers]

I got that, but it sounds like he wants a "before & after", so I have to install something to get the "after", right?

Chuck

[technosaurus]

the main reason for installing a package is that when the tarballs are expanded,
one can do a diff that will show what contents have changed.

I only suggested dash because it has few dependencies and it is fairly debian specific.

[visiondude]

Thanks tgp1994
I was finding Puppy-5.1.1 very limited with the pet installer, but thanks to you puppy is now complete.
Nice one.

[tgp1994]

This actually works on Puppy 5.x?