I like VLC - works well 'straight out of the box' and is available from Puppy download manager. I have not had any trouble with mp3 files but as suggested above your file may be corrupt - try another. It will also give you access to hundreds of streamed radio stations from all over the world. Alan

Thank you for your reply. As to updating, I will follow your advice. I installed some packages and was presented with a list of missing dependencies - rather than try to download them one at a time I was hoping that they could be done in bulk. It is not a real problem since everything works very wel...

I am running Puppy 5.1.1 and Ubuntu 10.10. In Ubuntu the system is checked daily by Update Manager and updates are downloaded.

How can I keep Puppy up-to-date?

How can I also download necessary dependencies (other than doing them one by one)?

Thanks for your help

Alan

Thanks for the replies - the problem is solved!

For others looking for help try - http://linux.die.net/man/1/rxvt

Alan

Please could someone tell me where the settings for the console (rxvt) are. I would like to change the font and window size settings.

I have tried search on this topic and found nothing

TIA

Alan

Thanks for all your replies - I will try it when I get the file.

Alan

I have 4.1 installed and updated with many packages.

How do I upgrade to 4.1.1 (and later to 4.2) without losing all my settings and other things I have installed?

TIA

Alan

I downloaded "devx_410.pet" and just clicked on it. The Pet package manager installed it OK for me without any problems. I now have GCC, G++ and MAKE installed

I have installed several packages using ./configure, make and make install as normal.

Alan

That fixed what I wanted.

Thanks

Alan

How can I rename or delete a Start Menu item?

Using right click only opens the item - it doesn't give me a menu like other OS's.

TIA

Alan

Just click on the file and it will run in SeaMonkey too

Alan

I am using CUPS to install a Canon BJC 210 printer. Near the end of the installation process it asks for a user name and password or a root name and password. I have not entered any passwords when installing Puppy. What can I give CUPS so that I can finish installing the printer? Or how can I bypass...

I have used Install > Petget Package Manager to download and install packages.

I have installed Pidgin 2.4.1 but I want to update to the current version - 2.5.1

Is the list of available packages kept up-to-date?

Alan

Hi Chris Sorry I took so long to reply - been busy looking at various distros. Have also updated from puppy 4.0 to 4.1 on 3 computers - I like it more and more. I have several others interested here in using Puppy on old machines that are too small or slow to use Windoze. BTW junee is not too far ou...

Hi CatDude

I followed your instructions down to point 7.

Then I waited and waited and waited.....

I mean I waited for an hour while I did something else and the process seemed to be stuck.

Any suggestions??

TIA

Alan

Just a few observations on my use of Puppy so far. I live in a small country town in Australia and my aim is to discourage people from throwing away perfectly usable computers just because they are no longer able to run Windows. I have been trying to install Puppy on a very old (circa 1997) computer...