Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[iluap]

Hello all,

I am loving this flavor of Linux, it even brought back to life a very old laptop that was gathering dust in our loft. I have installed 5.3 on my TravelMate 242LC HDD and all I can say is, WOW!
I am trying my hand with it coming from a WIndows and MAC background and this puppy is really cute.
But I am having trouble with PPM:
I was able to use PPM till yesterday but I most likely have changed some kind of configuration and, whenever I try now to run it it doesn't display the menu at all. I can use Slickpet and even launch the configuration menu for it using the files in the path. Unfortunately, I cannot even start it using the find_cat file in the path or petget from terminal. I have searched on the interwebs and this forum to no avail for 3 hours now.
Can you please enlight me on what to do to use it again?
Thanks in advance,

iluap

[darkcity]

welcome iluap

what happens if you type ppm into the terminal windows, any errors reported?

[iluap]

Hi darkcity,

This is the output after running the command in the console:

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 46, near token '</default>': syntax error

aborting...

No idea what that means...
Thanks in advance.

[iluap]

I found this same error message related to a broken PPM in this thread

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76279&start=240&sid=3a1c94703a5f5a59d7244be34485d685

I sent a PM to the person having the issue to confirm my understanding of the solution provided but I wonder if anyone else knows what Lobster meant in his solution:

"Boot from DVD and copy code to your frugal install"

I have copied the whole directory to the HDD but I am not sure if I need to replace it completely or only some files or if I need to do anything else. Any ideas?

[Semme]

Iluap- I'm not always sure but, I'd take a chance and overwrite the entire /usr/local/petget directory..

[sfeeley]

maybe not helpful but . . .

If you've only just recently installed, it might be just as quick to do a reinstall, by booting puppy pfix=ram to create a new save file

even if you don't want to go that route, it wouldn't hurt to boot puppy pfix=ram just to see if the package manager works with the "fresh" setup, as a process of elimination.

[bigpup]

Try this patch for PPM
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=625843#625843
Download the ziggy_patch_ppm-1.pet file and install patch by left mouse clicking on file. (viewed in Rox the file manager).
Try running PPM.

[darkcity]

the ziggy patch could work,

the places to check are

/usr/local/petget

and

/var/local/petget

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one method is to boot without savefile, you can then mount the savefile and check any changes in those directories. deleting file will restore to the state in the pupsfs/basesfs.

to avoid loading savefile see-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HowToAvoidLoadingSaveFile

[iluap]

Thanks to everyone, the patch recommended by bigpup did the trick, nonetheless everyone's input has taught me something This community is great!