puppy-unleashed-core-1.0.7.tar.gz has errors in packages.txt

[jmarsden]

Having downloaded, burned and booted from puppy-1.0.7-mozilla.iso I tried to download and use Puppy Unleashed.

I downloaded puppy-unleashed-core-1.0.7.tar.gz and untarred it, and then downloaded all the package files, and expanded them. So far, so good.

However, creating an ISO using createpuppy leads to a bootable ISO, but one in which many graphical apps do not function, because some libraries are missing. For example, mozilla does not run.

I found the cause of this to be some lines in the supplied packages.txt file that refer to newer versions of gtk2, libexpat and unionfs than are provided as tar.gz files. A workaround is to edit the packages.txt file like this

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  mv packages.txt packages.bad
  sed -e 's/\(gtk2-2.\)6.1/\14.0/g' -e 's/\(libexpat-0.\)5/\14/g' -e 's/\(unionfs-1.0.1\)4/\11/g' packages.bad >packages.txt

After that change, createpuppy builds working ISOs, as expected. I would suggest that a fixed puppy-unleashed-core-1.0.7.tar.gz file be created and uploaded to ibiblio and other mirrors.

Thanks for Puppy!

Jonathan