Slacko 5.5 Final

[gcmartin]

Hi 01Micko. I PM'd a link for the latest in Hardinfo.

Here to help

[Billtoo]

I booted the live dvd and did a frugal install to the hard drive with
the universal installer.
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Fri 1 Mar 2013onSlackoPuppy 5.4.0.5 Linux 3.4.17-PAE i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidiaCorporationG84[GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.32
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @1603 1: @1603 2: @1603 3: @1603 MHz

The first thing that I did after installing the proprietary nvidia
driver was to open ppm and install kdegames which worked fine.
Earlier today in my other 5405 install I had opened ppm and updated
it,do you think updating ppm may have caused the problems with installing
kdegames on that install?

That's it so far, more to install but it's working well so far.

[OscarTalks]

Is it on purpose that Gnumeric appears in both the Personal and Business categories of the menu?

[01micko]

Is it on purpose that Gnumeric appears in both the Personal and Business categories of the menu?

It never used to happen, it's the new menu system.

In other news, try the new hardinfo, and Billtoo, this one should open the report.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 86-s14.pet

patch for url (very crude)

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diff -ru hardinfo-i18n/shell/report.c hardinfo-i18n.new/shell/report.c
--- hardinfo-i18n/shell/report.c	2013-01-22 00:20:13.000000000 +1000
+++ hardinfo-i18n.new/shell/report.c	2013-03-02 20:18:19.357390357 +1000
@@ -639,7 +639,8 @@
 	    gchar *temp;
 	    
 	    temp = g_strdup_printf("file://%s", file);
-	    open_url(temp);
+	    //open_url(temp);
+	    system("FILE=`find $HOME -name 'hardinfo_report.html'`;defaultbrowser file://$FILE");
 	    
 	    g_free(temp);
         }

[01micko]

There is an entry for Slypheed in both the Network and Internet section

Fixed

Gnumeric is in both Business and Personal.

Retained in business.

Geany is in Utility but not Document.

I'll keep it there

Newest version of Pidgin in PPM is 2.10.6.

Check the patches repo


EDIT: However, the way you did it is better. Here's why.
Slackware does not support dependency resolution. When one installs Slackware TM, they are encouraged to install all packages on the DVD, about 2 GB compressed. That's it. That is the entirity (new word) of Slackware. There are NO other officially supported packages. No extra repos. KISS. This is pretty much how windows operates when you think about it. Except that on a clean windows install that costs over $100 you get a crap browser and a crap file manager and thats about it. With Slackware you get the works, web server, mail server, networking, media players, several DE/Wms, all sorts of compilers and all the latest at release time. All for free and all FOSS. Ok, nuff said.

Then comes Salix, which have developed an automated dependency tracker, so that's why our databases for PPM come from there. Armed with that info, Salix (and Slacky) manage to produce stable third party packages fully compatible with Slackware.

So.. you get pidgin from the Slackware repo, but, deps are resolved because of the work of Gapan and the Salix crew. Then patches are produced by Pat Volkerding (sw boss) as issues arise, critical bugs, security type issues.are only addressed for the "stable" version of Slackware. Feature updates are usually not updated for stable.

If you directly get pidgin (or any other package) from the "patches" repo, dependencies are not resolved. So, by getting the original, you get all the deps, then later a patched version may come up. Enter my "Updates Manager". It's designed to only show packages that have either been included in the original iso, or downloaded through PPM after installation. (With the exception of Seamonkey and Firefox, both are included as a distro builder may decide to include one, the other or neither).

Never mind that both show in the "uninstall" gui. The only time that may matter is with Firefox or SeaMonkey, and a message pops up to let you know.

Complicated? Yes! But, bear in mind, puppy is a tiny distro, supporting up to 8 major distros with woof, all with varying package management. We do what we can.

[sc0ttman]

Here's a nice touch if ur using the latest gtkdialog (i assume so, if ur using latest pmusic): http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 921#688921

[01micko]

Thanks sc0ttman!

[sc0ttman]

Thanks sc0ttman!

Pleasure.. It's my only contribution to a mainstream puppy in about 3 years

[tlchost]

Check the patches repo

I'm sure it's age-related as I do things like forget where I parked my truck....but how to I find the patches repo?

I hope I remember I asked this question so I'll understand the answer.

Thom

[gcmartin]

On a Pristine boot immediately after FirstRUN and Frisbee setup, I tried to mount my NAS and got an error.

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# /mnt/NAS2
# mount -o username=root,password=woofwoof //192.168.1.207/NASunit /mnt/NAS2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on  //192.168.1.207/NASunit
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Anyone noticed the same.

Hadn't notice this problem in earlier release.
Edit: I used YASSM ..Search and was about to attach the NAS.

[01micko]

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[01micko]

On a Pristine boot immediately after FirstRUN and Frisbee setup, I tried to mount my NAS and got an error.

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# /mnt/NAS2
# mount -o username=root,password=woofwoof //192.168.1.207/NASunit /mnt/NAS2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on  //192.168.1.207/NASunit
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Anyone noticed the same.

Hadn't notice this problem in earlier release.
Edit: I used YASSM ..Search and was about to attach the NAS.

SMB?

try mount.cifs

or at least mount -t cifs

[gcmartin]

Already tried -t cifs....but, mount.cifs. yields

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# mount.cifs -o username=root,password=woofwoof //192.168.1.207/NASunit /mnt/NAS2 

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found

(This is remarkably similar to what happened in FATDOG6+ when it 1st came out. @JamesBond/@Kirk addressed it in the release of 610.)

[Billtoo]

In other news, try the new hardinfo, and Billtoo, this one should open the report.

Yes, it works now,thanks.

[gcmartin]

In asn earlier post, it should have read that YASSM has no problem accessing the NAS for me.

[01micko]

In asn earlier post, it should have read that YASSM has no problem accessing the NAS for me.

Ok, neither should the network roxapp. I just tried this:

# mount.cifs //192.168.1.6/homeshare /mnt/share
Password:
#

Got on... maybe try that.

[rcrsn51]

Already tried -t cifs....but, mount.cifs. yields

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# mount.cifs -o username=root,password=woofwoof //192.168.1.207/NASunit /mnt/NAS2 

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found

(This is remarkably similar to what happened in FATDOG6+ when it 1st came out. @JamesBond/@Kirk addressed it in the release of 610.)

The mount.cifs command always requires that the options list be at the end.

[Edit] I also tried "mount -t cifs". It worked correctly both with the options list at the front and the back of the command.

[gcmartin]

Thanks, both suggestions work.

Been using mount for about 10 years and had grown accustomed to having it around. I'll appeal to @JamesBond to find out what they did to get mount to work again. (@Rcrsn51 was that you that helped them with that?)

Thanks again to get me this far.

[rcrsn51]

See my edit above. The mount command still works correctly for me.

[Edit] I also tried it with just "mount -o ....." and it worked too.

I would try a fresh install, WITHOUT using Frisbee.

[tlchost]

Hmmmm....pidgin does not show up....I updated the PPM...still doesn;t show up. What have I done wrong?