Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[tallboy]

yarddog and majorfoo, I don't know if I am just confusing with my suggestion, because I don't know how fuzzy CUPS/Brother is regarding drivers. I see from the driver selection, that the driver you chose is the only one using Foomatic, the others are CUPS+Gutenprint, so my 2¢: Try the next one on the list instead, and see if it works.

Tallboy.

[rcrsn51]

[yarddog]

[yarddog]

[yarddog]

[tallboy]

Missing library: libical.so.0

Osmo complains that libical.so.0 is missing, and refuses to open.

I remember having to download it to my dpup4.84beta4 also, to get Osmo to work there, I got it from Lenny.

Tallboy.

[tallboy]

I tried to update the package repo in the PPM.

First of all, it ran for app. one hour, updating all 20 odd thousand package descriptions to puppy format.

Secondly, I suddenly have 19 different repos to choose from in the PPM now, with additions like debian-lenny-mainpre, or puppy-5-official, puppy-5-official1 or maybe puppy-5-official2.
This function is a mess. Don't try it.

Another function that is available in other puppys (5.2.5), is the one that lets you remove preinstalled packages. It is not very exact, I have to use a file finder to remove the remaining libs and confs, but I miss it in dpup anyway. Rumor has it that there is a very nice package in the latest Linux Mint, that does exactly that. In Debian there is also a command 'purge' in apt-get and aptitude, that remove conf-files and libs after de-installing a package.

dejan555, are you, or someone else, gathering all dpup4.85 (and 4.84beta4) bugs, missing packages and tips for future refinement? It would be nice to have a completely bug- and problem free dpup, using the 2.6.30.5 kernel. It's only a matter of polishing...

Tallboy.

[dejan555]

Uh, I'm not really taking notes but it could be collected.
I really don't have any clue about PPM, I hardly ever use it.
We need more devs for completely bug free release.

[tallboy]

dejan555, yes, I guess we will never have a dpup meeting the demands from all kinds of machines or external attachments.

I thought more in the line of having at least all the pre-installed programs working as they should, like having the correct libs for Cups and Osmo to work, an Abiword not closing at a wim, all the wm and builtin functions functioning. I would like every clicked button to produce the result we expect! There has not been a single puppy release where everything has worked right 'out of the box', but it should be possible, don't you think?

Tallboy.

[aarf]

[dejan555]

Same here, even before woof and deb support in ppm I used to manually download stuff from deb repos and dependencies and then undeb / deb2pet them or if it's large number of deps just undeb and merge all of them and make one package, that's how I made amarok sfs back on 4.x series from debs.

BTW, this one still work on dpup 485:
amarok-1.4.10-lite-dpup_484.sfs 33 MBs

[harii4]

Any plans for an dpup barebones?
That would be neat to have one.

[Iguleder]

I started working on a Debian Testing dpup, I need a good testing ground for new ideas I have.

If it's any good, I'll upload it and make some good packages you can use too.

[dejan555]

New idea: make a barebones one from the start! Then maybe a sfs for standard apps that come with puppy and browser chooser?

Once I stripped 484's sfs down to about 112 MB but I removed almost all apps with only dillo as browser. It could be stripped further but didn't know what libs to remove.

[Iguleder]

Yep, that's the idea - I want a barebones dpup so I can build all apps using build scripts and make it a rolling-release, upgradeable Puppy by design.