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chrismt · Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 250

I recently installed Lucid Puppy on my PC

I found these things as problematic

I am unsure if this is the place to post this

But, I am continuing

I though about updating the Puppy Package Manager. Therefore I ticked all the repositories and clicked UPDATE

After downloading, I see a very long process called download database

It took about 1 hour to update

I would appreciate if it took lesser time

I am not sure if you removed this feature but I don't see the Floppy icon on the desktop

I would appreciate if you add Pidgin or other multi chat client in QuickPet

Regards

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

Chris don't get angry on me now.

We are all different but you sure surprise me.

Update everything in the package? Lucid Puppy is so new that it is a kind of pre alpha or something so there is nothing to update.

But sure I can be wrong. I am lousy at computers so maybe I just don't get what you wanted to accomplish by updating everything.

chrismt · Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 250

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

I trust you are right then.

It is me who are naive and non-experienced.

I thought that those programs or apps that was included always used the latest version and not used older versions.

But it is logical as you describe it. Dpup and Upup and Lucid Lupu are always built on the version that Debian and Ubuntu have released and not on the latest version of the programs.

I trust you on this because that was what did happen to me installing a puppy derivative to my neighbors computer and realized that it had FireFox 3.5.5? instead of what I expected the 3.6.3 that is the recommended version. So that is likely what would happen if I downloaded Ubuntu 10.04? or whatever. They don't have latest program them either?