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Posted: **Thu 10 Jan 2013, 20:50**

this is a spin of quickpet for precise puppy,

quickpet and slickpet were well liked by users, enabling them to easily install popular packages.

i love precises PPM, and think Barry has done an amazing job improving it, speeding up dependency checking, speeding up updating the repos (this now takes under a minute as opposed to 20+ mins on lucid) and making it more compatible with the ubuntu repos than lucid was.

some users find it a little intimidating though and just want easy access to a few popular programs, so i've had a go at making a quickpet for precise.

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quickpet_precise 2

changes....

1.most packages now hosted by pemasu
2.added devx, kernel sources, QT, stellarium ,slimboat and qupzilla browsers
3. there's now an update button
4. shrunk the package to 106kb
5. vlc, qupzilla, smplayer & stellarium now share qt (may cause problems with the PPM! we'll see)
6. improved dropbox install
7. tooltips added
8. updated to googleearth 7
9. fixed skype link
10. added groovejaar & gtk-youtube-viewer
11 added a games tab

12 now using dropbox to host the files
13 added steam (games portal)
14 added desura (games portal)
15 fixed menu icon
16 added xombrero browser
17 updated browsers & nvidia driver
18 0.7added instantbird, gogglesmm, wuala, mixxx, openhexagon & love2d
19 0.8 added openoffice, libreoffice, librecad, guvcview, qosmic
20 0.9 added pinta (requested by lvds)
21 1.0 added graphic drivers for precise 5.6
22 1.1 re added xchat
23 1.2 added kingsoft office, guayadeque, foobnix, gmusicbrowser ,audacious, qmplay2, avidemux, lmms & updated tixati...
auto desktop icon thanks to 01micko
26 1.6.2 added qbittorrent, amule, google music manager, hotshots , inkscape
updated tixati & grooveoff
27 1.7 smoother updating,gui size changer, updated openoffice, libreoffice, firefox, chromium & added drivers for 5.7
28 1.8 updated google chrome, firefox, iron, tor & deadbeef (thanks to oscartalks). fixed supertuxcart & warzone links (thanks to zx81), fixed flash installer (thanks to shinobar)
added thunderbird email
29 now hosted on ibiblio

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suggestions for 'popular' packages missing, are welcome.

enjoy

666philb aka mrfricks

Posted: **Thu 10 Jan 2013, 22:57**

First impression is nice. I could provide those datafile host et mediafire files in upup-precise repo. First I need confirmation that they all work. There is some overlapping things also. VLC probably has qt libs included. That VLC version had subtitles working, Billtoo compiled one ?

Smplayer suggests to use Ubuntu Precise qt libs, I didnt use them when I compiled Smplayer so I dont know the compabilty.

Fix the Mutimedia to Multimedia in the quickpet script.

Up to date Firefox you will get as Canonical version from PPM after you update PPM. That is nice way to get the latest Firefox easily. It wont be updatable , probably. Only by installing new version by PPM again. In good and bad.

Really nice alpha version in quickpet spirit. There is the never ending update cycle problem though.

Posted: **Fri 11 Jan 2013, 16:34**

Well done mate, nice working with precise.http://imagebin.org/242514

Posted: **Sat 12 Jan 2013, 10:58**

I have now uploaded to the upup precise repo your external hosted apps. Excluding the vlc pet. I do have my qt apps separated so that they need just qt-4.8.2.sfs (renamed as that) and then you install the compiled qt apps, which comes without qt libs in my repo.

Load qt-4.8.2.sfs and then as many qt app as you want.

Vlc pet has its own qt libs, so I didnt upload it now. It works great though, subtitles are working, so it has been compiled right, which is rare.

I did change couple of upper case named app to lower case name, like Opera to opera, they are now all lower case named. It helps browsing the repo. I try to get rid of all upper case named stuff.

I have added also new slimboat browser to the repo. It comes with its own libs in /opt and so it does not mess with other libs. It is qt libs based webkit browser. There is thread about it in murga-forum. There seems to be fans for it. For me it looks like and behaves like Qupzilla.

I have Trolltech file in Upup Precise which makes qt apps lookout better. I did add that Trolltech file to the slimboatbrowser pet.

Posted: **Sat 12 Jan 2013, 11:16**

I don't know if you include a quckpet icon or not in the pet, but here is s snippet that works for placing an icon on the desktop in the pinstall.sh, it's from the "browse as spot" program I wrote a looong time ago, but the idea is there.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
#pinstall.sh for Browsesafe 20110424

icon() #sets icon on desktop
{
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope\">
<env:Body xmlns=\"http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer\">
 <PinboardAdd>
   <Path>/usr/sbin/browsesafe</Path>
    <X>224</X>
    <Y>224</Y>
   <Label>browsesafe</Label>
 </PinboardAdd>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>"  | rox -R

 echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope\">
 <env:Body xmlns=\"http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer\">
  <SetIcon>
   <Path>/usr/sbin/browsesafe</Path>
    <Icon>/usr/share/icons/browsesafe.png</Icon>
   </SetIcon>
  </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>"  | rox -R

  gtkdialog-splash -bg thistle -timeout 12 -fontsize large -close box -text "NOTICE: Browsesafe has been installed. A desktop icon should have appeared alongside the 'chat' icon, for convenient starting of browsesafe."

[ -f /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons ] && cp -f /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/

}
export -f icon
#######SNIP#######

#other stuff goes here

Also, I have a few icons in a package.. just crack it open and retrieve them. You'll have to get vicmz to make you a neon one though

With a bit of creativity you could detect the current icon theme and even place the right one in the pinstall.sh, or close to it.

Posted: **Sat 12 Jan 2013, 11:26**

qupzilla-1.3.5-precise.pet uploaded to the upup precise repo. It needs also qt-4.8.2.sfs for usage. 2.1 Mb browser pet !

Posted: **Sun 13 Jan 2013, 17:24**

uploaded a new version quickpet_precise 0.2, attached on first post.

packages now hosted by pemasu, other changes mentioned on first post

hi 01micko, thanks for posting that, i was thinking of trying to get an icon on the desktop. unfortunately i can't get the pinstall script for the icon to work, not sure what i'm missing, i'll look into it further.

Posted: **Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:58**

666philb. I tested the stripped ( qt libs separated ) vlc-2.0.5. In my tests it worked ok, also with subtitles, with qt-4.8.2.sfs. Vlc-2.0.5 has been uploaded to the upup repo.
There is also vlc-2.0.3 in the upup repo. That one has been compiled by Billtoo, correctly. It has dvb tuner and subtitles support, and it handles fine different formats. So....there is from what to choose.

Quickpet-0.2 looks great !!!
There really is now browsers from to choose. Also there is now great selection of other popular apps to download.

Thank you of your work with Quickpet. Many puppy users appreciate it.

Posted: **Sun 13 Jan 2013, 22:43**

Hi Phil,

First of very much thanks of the quickpet.

666philb wrote:this is a spin of quickpet for precise puppy,

suggestions for 'popular' packages missing, are welcome.

666philb aka mrfricks

Regardig from your above quote I hope I understand you well by playing kind of Santa Claus ?

Maybe not, but if so, here is my list, don't know whether they are, or might -become- popular or not,

- Digikam
- Google Earth 7 and its additional KML
- K3B or Brasero, anyway the one with which you can make an iso from a cd (not meant for remastering like isomaster)
- Clonezilla (or is this something standishing alone ?)
- Dupfinder
(not popular but probably underestimated as it can gather a lot of information on duplicates. Besides probably got nothing to do with ubuntu, but asking does not hurt, replying sometimes does

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68286

'm such a supernoob even don't know what is symlinking, nor how to run ".sh". Bad, yes.

Or maybe you could give me a clue how to compile pets. I thought at first that since Precise making pets would be as easy as making popcorn ... (when I saw your xmbc ..) probably not.

When I did a run in Jejy's test "apt-get" deriv' I found that the packages returned were more complete than in the original precise .. but howto turn it onto a pet ...

Posted: **Tue 22 Jan 2013, 09:24**

For Pets info Go to install , choose Barrys notes -Package manager Intro web page
end up here
http://puppylinux.com/development/packa ... gement.htm
follow links for good explanations
I cant fault PBurn for burning DVD's-had no trouble with it and I was a k3b regular-its under Multimedia

Posted: **Mon 28 Jan 2013, 18:31**

hi nancy reagan

sorry it took a while to reply .. i've been quite busy!

digikam is huge 198mb! so i'm not adding that, k3b i might add, athough i've no cd drive at the mo to test it. and clonzilla seems to be something you run from a disk.

i've added the new googleearth 7 though, and also a link to dupfinder on the useful .pets tab.

i've not made a new pet of quickpet as you can update quick_pet precise using the update option in the menu

the best way to understand .pets is to look inside one. install the rightclick options pet... then right click on a pet to extract it

Posted: **Fri 15 Feb 2013, 22:09**

fixed broken skype link

Posted: **Tue 19 Feb 2013, 05:48**

LOVIN' IT

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Precise 5.4.3 frugal on PNY 8gb usb plugged into my Dell Latitude D630 laptop usually or to use some dell at work that has some windowz xp some-or-other on hd that takes FOREVER to boot.

Posted: **Sat 23 Feb 2013, 22:38**

Hi Phil.

Thanks for your efforts

Nancy Reagan

Posted: **Mon 04 Mar 2013, 19:28**

updated ... please use the update button in quickpet

added a games tab and some games
added groovejaar
added gtk-youtube-viewer

Posted: **Fri 22 Mar 2013, 16:59**

updated ... please use the update button in quickpet

added steam , treat it as experimental , not everything may work

added desura .... same as above

Posted: **Tue 02 Apr 2013, 20:36**

My only beef is the Puppy icon is gone...

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Precise 5.5 frugal usb (among others) on Dell latitude d630 w/ dead hd

Posted: **Wed 03 Apr 2013, 15:56**

MikeyBrat wrote:My only beef is the Puppy icon is gone...

sorry MikeyBrat, there was a spelling mistake in the .desktop file.... thanks for pointing it out.... now fixed

Posted: **Mon 08 Apr 2013, 10:11**

@ 666philb,

I use Precise and I thank you very much for your stirling work on this handy quickpet.

@ all

Having recently received widespread praise, I installed slimboat browser (v 1.1.19 which version impressively included just two fixes which were stated as specifically for Puppy).

A message stated v 1.1.28 was available for update, but even though the Linux version has a dedicated Puppy update - I failed to use it properly and it did not update.

"Precise" instructions would be appreciated if anyone has successfully updated slimboat.

My regards

Posted: **Mon 08 Apr 2013, 13:31**

hi jasper,

just installing the .deb as opposed to the puppy tar.gz should update it

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