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[stemsee]

installdir ?? What's that? Can you post the script? Is it an effort to translate puppy installed db format to slapt's? or just the lists.files? I am looking for user-installed-packages/builtin to status file translator.

[Dry Falls]

Hi Stemsee. Here's the script from Lighthouse:

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#!/bin/sh
# 110509 TazOC lhpup.org
# Install a directory tree to / from CL

if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
 echo -e "Usage: `basename $0` <path to directory>\nThis will copy the directory tree to / without using a package manager.\nDesigned to be used with new2dir for building pets."
 exit 1
else TREE="$1"
 cp -afT --remove-destination "${TREE}" /
fi

exit 0

It's also useful for installing portable apps like mozilla or wine-drive_c during first run/ram mode. Like ppm, G-slapt only presents the directory-tree of installed packages. Woof-CE & Quirky have the /root/.packages/builtin_files directory for woof-installed/ootb builtins directory trees. My efforts are purely for reasons of compatability. Not sure what you mean by "status file translator".

df

[stemsee]

hi DryFalls

apt-get / synaptic use a status file to log installed, configured, half-configured packages. This file is also used to determine version against available upgrade package.

[Sylvander]

Check /root/.packages/builtin_files to see if the new "trees" have materialized.

/root/.packages/builtin_files exists, and has inside it MANY files but no sub-folders...that is, no folder/file trees.
Is that OK?

[Dry Falls]

sylvander, each one of those files is the directory structure of a builtin package. For example, the first file is '915resolution-x86_64' which should read:

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/usr
/usr/sbin
 915resolution
/var
/var/log
/var/log/packages
 915resolution-x86_64

This is the "tree" I spoke of. Probably a more appropriate name for it.

[Sylvander]

The contents of my file...
/root/.packages/builtin_files/915resolution-x86_64
Reads...

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/usr
/usr/sbin
 915resolution
/var

Is that OK?

[Dry Falls]

Well, it's nearly ok! a tedious process.

[Sylvander]

So should I do nothing more?

[Dry Falls]

So should I do nothing more?

Right. It's not all that crucial. PupSysInfo refers to the directory, Remove-Builtins uses it, I find it useful for trouble-shooting problem 'upgrades'.

df

[edoc]

Any idea why I'm getting a "This browser doesn't support video playback" error from Firefox?

This is what I was trying to view:

https://twitter.com/search?q=Jarryd%20H ... _us_sports

[Dry Falls]

That message occurs with every browser {Icecat, palemoon, firefox, seamonkey, konqueror), including latest firefox under lxpup64. I think the problem is with twitter and not us. I'll try chrome and see what that does.

df

[Dry Falls]

Doesn't work on Vivaldi or opera.
Works on chromium. Some sort of agreement between twitter and google, I imagine. Nasty!

[edoc]

Hurts their users and ultimately themselves ... short-sighted, selfish, & dumb.

[Dry Falls]

What you said!

ps: To run Opera from loadeed sfs, type/copy into terminal:

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chmod 4755 /usr/lib64/opera/opera_sandbox

df

edit: Also, make sure 'block popups' is disabled and java script is enabled in any browser to run cups as spot, as that will block the password dialog to set up the printer.

[Dry Falls]

uploaded delta patch for last iso (150820-JL64-603.iso___150908-JL64-603.iso.delta). mdsums check out but haven't tried booting from it. Should work.

df

additional attachment accommodates 'choose-browser' to palemoon and replaces cups wizard at startup with system-config-printer.

[Dry Falls]

removed root entries for .mozilla, palemoon config directories and caches in profile.sfs. Now cups works in any browser first-run. Note for icecat: uncheck "Block execution of non-free JavaScript (experimental)" on icecat startpage (about:icecat). CUPS requires popup & javascript to log in. That has been the problem before. It's all in browser preferences, which should ootb enable js and popups.

[Dry Falls]

uploaded seamonkey-2.35-x86_64.sfs and added some startup configuration changes to profile.sfs

[edoc]

Alkinea has been converting my .odt file to epub and mobi versions just fine ... now it only converts to epub.

Is it possible that loading

hal-0.5.14-x86_64-3.sfs

caused some sort of conflict?

Note: This is on a laptop running an old LH64 version - and on which loading "hal....." did not solve the hulu problem as it did on the JL64 machine.

NOTE: I removed

hal-0.5.14-x86_64-3.sfs

and Alkinea still won't create mobi files any more. Arghhh! It also is not persistent - meaning that after it runs it closes - which isn't helpful as I often want to convert multiple files and want to keep the settings - just change them slightly.

I am hoping someone else here uses Alkinea, in case the problem is a Puppy thing, but will also look on their site for a help forum.

NOTE2: I tried to install Calibre from Binary (they warn against using distro version):

http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovid ... staller.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"

I deleted the leading "sudo -v && " and the "sudo" in the middle and got a python error.

Is it likely this can be made to work or are the dependencies, etc. just more trouble than it's worth?

[Dry Falls]

ebooktools and mobipocket are already built in from sourceforge & slackware 14.1 repos. A conflict with other versions might be expected. If Alkinea worked on LH64, which is SL14,0, there may be a glib/gcc difference.

Either way, make sure you have the kde addon (and/or possibly devx for
python) loaded. Bear in mind that most of what's in the kde addon is
NOT just a window manager.

Also, check out PPM before trusting "strangers" when dealing with binaries. fd64 repo probably has something (in sfs/600 or sfs/700 that will probably work for you. Also check out 0micko's 64 bit stuff for likely compatible packages.

Current version: beta 3.33

Alkinea is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.

Windows XP, Vista, 7 & 8 Download
Windows portable (no installer) Download
Mac - OS X Download
Linux (Fedora 14 x86_64, requires Qt 4.7) Download

To convert to Kindle, you also need to download KindleGen from Amazon.

Fedora packages often install ok, but you may want to extract and rebuild it for JL64. Except for the kindleGen (???) this beta version might just work.

df

ps. calibre from sourceforge is a tar.xz file which suggests a source package. You will need to compile it.

[edoc]

I have an HP Pavilion g7 running an old version of LH64.

It boots from a little USB stick on which the files in the attached image are held.

Is it possible to boot from a USB stick but store the operating files on the laptop?

This thing has what was, at least at the time (quite a while back), one of the troublesome versions of UEFI.

Thanks!