OK, printing may take a little while to figure out, but I found these python3 64-bit packages for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver: https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-updates-main-amd64/python3_3.6.7-1~18.04_amd64.deb https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-updates-main-amd64/python3-minimal_3.6.7-1~18.04_...

bigpup wrote:Bionic 8.0 is not good information.

Is this Bionicpup64 8.0?

Yes there is a difference.

It's 64, but I wasn't aware that the difference between 32- and 64-bit would affect the answers to my questions about printing and Python.

I've just started using Puppy again (Bionic 8.0) after a lapse of some years. I used Linux Mint 17.3, it still works but is no longer supported or updated, and I looked around for what to do next. Mint 19.2 didn't seem like such a big improvement, plus my wife wanted a Linux distro she could plug in...

MuseScore 2.0.3 has recently been released in a single-file AppImage for Linux (see https://musescore.org/en/download#Linux), which you can just make executable and run. It's supposed to work on almost any distribution. I haven't tried it on Puppy yet, but maybe you could.

I tried executing MuseScorePortable.exe with "wine start /Unix" instead of just "wine," but I got the same error message.

The installer worked under Wine, but MuseScore didn't.I got an error message saying MuseScore.exe encountered a serious problem and needs to close.

IMHO it's the ideal solution, not only because a MuseScore package for Puppy would be about twice as large as Wine: you install Musescore 2 under Win$ then you can run it, as well as other Win$ programs, with either OS. 8) No, I can't, because I've only had Linux, not "Win$," on my home c...

You're welcome! Let me know if you think it needs any improvements after you've used it for a little while.

WISH Music Time is a simple countdown timer and music player for Linux and other Unix-type operating systems. You can use it to play a music file with a single click, or else set a time to play a file in the future (either manually or by way of a single-click "time line"). http://i300.phot...

An even more pleasant surprise when you can get it to work, I hope.

Oops, looks like a worthless variable needed to be cut out of the script. (Don't know why it hasn't shown up on my computer.) I cut it out; try the revised .PET that's now attached above and see if you have any more problems.

partsman wrote:Hi @Pa_McClamrock

What is the output if you run this in a terminal :

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

The output is 60. I'll read about how to decrease it in the article you referenced, but not tonight before I go to bed. Thanks!

Hello @Pa_McClamrock I would like to ask: Do you have a SWAP partition on your system's HDD? [ . . . ] Was it being used by your system during its boot and running? I do have a swap partition, and I also now have 4 GB RAM, not just 2. Apparently the swap partition isn't being used because the RAM i...

WISH File Rusher 2015 is a light, fast two-column file manager. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn23/pa_mcclamrock/wishrush_2015_zpsn8dhjycu.jpg It requires Tcl and Tk 8.5 or greater. (I write code in Tcl for some of the same reasons I speak English: I learned how to do it a long time ago; it wor...

Well, er, I happen to have the recently completed 2015 version, which is just about ready to post. Stay tuned!

I want to be able to use MuseScore 2.0.1 (see http://www.musescore.org ) on Puppy. It requires Qt 5.4 (or at least 5.3). I'm running vividpup beta 2. I'd like to have a Qt 5.4 SFS that I could then use in compiling MuseScore. Compiling Qt 5.4 from source is beyond me. Is there an Ubuntu or Slackware...

Oops, I spoke a little too soon about everything working right. Last time I tried to open Pale Moon, my computer froze up and I had to shut down improperly. I restarted, waited several minutes for two filesystem checks, and now everything is back to normal. When I tried Tahrpup, I got repeated freez...

Update: I've been using vividpup every day now; everything seems to work fine except for pet2tgz (mentioned above), and my second optical drive doesn't always show up in the drive icons after a disc is inserted (the same thing used to happen with Slacko). The comparative bigness of the ISO is no pro...

666philb wrote:i'll see if i can make a qt5 sfs but adding it to the iso would mean having to re compile vlc and various other qt4 apps

An SFS would be just fine with me. For my purposes at least, it would have to be at least Qt 5.3 or, better yet, 5.4. Hope you can get it done!

Another question, and a comment. Question: Is there any prospect of putting Qt 5.3 or 5.4 into the devx, instead of Qt 4? Isn't it about time? Comment: Although I'm not too fond of LibreOffice, my wife often uses it on my computer when I'm not on it--and I'm pretty sure she'll be impressed to see ho...