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#151 Post by bigpup »

All programs could probably use a little tweaking.
Tweak away and post your version to the forum.
May turn into the new version for that program.
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#152 Post by MochiMoppel »

bigpup wrote:Tweak away and post your version to the forum.
I'm still in exploration mode :lol: , not much to tweak yet.

New problem: When I try to run a script from Geany with F5 it doesn't work. Was no problem in Precise.
As a workaround I changed back to Geany 0.19.1, copied from Precise, with command /usr/bin/xterm -e bash -c in Preferences > Tools > Terminal. But what would be the correct command in Slacko's Geany 1.23.1?

I found a description of the same problem in How to make Geany execute command (F5 key) to work, but unfortunately no solution :cry:

Edit:
I guess I found the solution. Posted to above thread :D

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Unable to use files whose names contain special characters

#153 Post by Wilhelm »

Files and directories whose names contain special characters (ß, ô, ö, etc.) can be opened, but you can't save changes to them.

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#154 Post by 01micko »

No problem here:

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# mkdir -p ßôö
# echo hello > ßôö/hello.txt
# echo hello > ßôö/ßôö.txt
# cat ßôö/ßôö.txt
hello
goodbye
I edited ßôö/ßôö.txt with geany just fine :?

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#155 Post by rufwoof »

In this posting http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 181#756181 Wilhelm has noted that AbiWord in Slacko 5.6 is a unstable version (2.9.4) The latest stable version being 2.8.6 http://www.abisource.com/

From Menu, Wizard Wizard (PupControl) I see that you can uninstall original programs (Install, Remove Builtin) such as abiword 2.9.4.

After doing that how do I install abiword 2.8.6 (stable) ?

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#156 Post by watchdog »

rufwoof wrote: After doing that how do I install abiword 2.8.6 (stable) ?
Try to download this from slackware 14 (slacko's libs are compatible with slackware 14.0):

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... 86-9sl.txz

To install just click on the package. Perhaps you'll have to change the desktop file in /usr/share/applications. I suggest to backup before trying. If you have a frugal install copy your savefile with another name and try.

Edit: I have tried it. It works but you need a symlink, too:

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ln -s /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4.0.1 /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.3
No need to change the desktop file.

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#157 Post by rufwoof »

THX

Tried it and it failed with

error loading shares libraries: libqconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Rolled back to a saved savefile. I'll just use OpenOffice Writer that I've SFS'd in.

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#158 Post by rufwoof »

Discovered the abiword instability for myself today.

Wrote a page or so, pasted in some images and moved them around. Went to save and it completely locked up the system. Directory name was filled with square (extended) characters. 100% CPU, had to reboot.

Another bug that I'm occasionally experiencing is with the right (up/down) scroll bar. Sometimes the moveable 'block' stays where it is whilst the page scrolls, such that when you come to scroll again the block is in the wrong place. That might be a firefox thing as I've not seen that occur elsewhere.

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#159 Post by Semme »

This one might be too new, in which case, this one. Paul likes to keep his libs current.

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#160 Post by rufwoof »

Thanks.

Leaving the original (2.9) installed and installing the second of those two likes in the previous posting and then entering the link command as advised by watchdog did the job.

I've also deleted /usr/share/abiword-2.9 (leaving just the 'new' abiword-2.8 directory).

Things look good thanks (excepting that there are two Abiword menu items under MENU, DOCUMENTS)

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Kernel Init - Not Syncing

#161 Post by Deacon »

Hello,

I've found an issue, which is kind of odd.

On my netbook I've found that there is a Kernel Panic that occurs during the boot sequence. I've seen this on other pups before, usually on a frugal that's 2FS file's has gotten heavy, but this is a full on a 300GB HD with 1GB of onboard RAM (it's an Atom-based HP Mini).

Usually waiting for the whole panic and restarting causes the machine to start fine.
Any idea why?

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#162 Post by r4dic4l »

Just wanted to say thanks for this release. It was the only OS that would run on this old abused machine stably. I am happy that I found this as I have adopted it as my pet.
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#163 Post by sancxjo »

Hello!
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add bridge failed: Package not installed
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openssl on slacko 5.6

#164 Post by greengeek »

Does anyone have any tips for the best way to install the latest openssl on slacko 5.6?

I am showing:
# openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
#

which I understand is one of the heartbleed affected versions.

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Re: openssl on slacko 5.6

#165 Post by SFR »

greengeek wrote:Does anyone have any tips for the best way to install the latest openssl on slacko 5.6?
You'll find it in Menu -> Setup -> Updates Manager.

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Re: openssl on slacko 5.6

#166 Post by greengeek »

SFR wrote:You'll find it in Menu -> Setup -> Updates Manager
Thanks! I've selected it from there, then saved a copy of it from /tmp for later offline installation. I may see if I can make a .pet of it. cheers

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#167 Post by greengeek »

Hmmm, just looking at the packages it looks like quite a bit going on under the hood - not an easy drag 'n 'drop upgrade of a few libs. Lots of certificates to be removed, renamed and replaced. If you are trying to do a manual install offline is it as simple as clicking the /install/doinst.sh?

(I was hoping to insert this upgrade into a slacko-based pup I am manually remastering)

Should I just leave this to the devs and see if someone makes a .pet?

A list of the files included in the slack packages can be found 2/3 of the way down the page here:
http://pkgs.org/slackware-14.0/slackwar ... 0.txz.html
(keep clicking 'show more')
Seems like a huge list of files.

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#168 Post by greengeek »

Hi, does anyone have a wget pet addressing the recent vulnerabilities please? My installed version is 1.14 and that seems to be all that is available in the slacko14 and update repositories. Looking for 1.16 if available.

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#169 Post by rg66 »

greengeek wrote:Hi, does anyone have a wget pet addressing the recent vulnerabilities please? My installed version is 1.14 and that seems to be all that is available in the slacko14 and update repositories. Looking for 1.16 if available.
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/
X-slacko-5b1 - X-tahr-2.0 - X-precise-2.4
[url=http://smokey01.com/rg66/]X-series repo[/url]

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#170 Post by greengeek »

rg66 wrote:
greengeek wrote:Hi, does anyone have a wget pet addressing the recent vulnerabilities please? My installed version is 1.14 and that seems to be all that is available in the slacko14 and update repositories. Looking for 1.16 if available.
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/
Thanks rg66. Turns out I got the same problem with your pet as I did with the other v 1.16 pets i had tried - wget still failed.
If anyone else with Slacko 5.6 has wget failure after installing updates please have a look at 8Geee's fix (and the posts around it) here

It seems to be a problem with an incorrectly named (or missing) lib symlink.

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