Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

moebigsley · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Well, I had puppy 2.16 and EZpup working great. However, I am a sucker for the latest and greatest and so I backed everything up and upgraded to 2.17.1

More accurately, I wiped my drive and installed 2.17.1 fresh.

I downloaded the EZpup-2.1.7R2 pet package and attempted to install it.

However, I am confronted with the following error:

The EZpup-2.1.7R2-2.pet package has been downloaded to /root/.packages,
however there is not enough room to uncompress and install it.
The free space is 59525 blocks but it is estimated you will
need 149240 blocks temporarily for the expansion and install.

Note: If you are using a pup_save.3fs personal storage file,
it can be made bigger -- see Utilities menu.

This script will now delete the package and exit...

This is a fresh 2.17.1 install on a 1GB usb drive. Other Pet packages seem to work without an error. This machine has 512 MB ram and I am using a 256 MB pup_save. There are gobs of free space and plenty of free ram.

I appreciate any advice you can give. The stock puppy is a little hard on the eyes.

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 10 Aug 2007, 19:02 Post subject: Re: It was working...

moebigsley · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

I have tried with a 512 MB save file and the results are the same.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I may have to forego the package this time around.

Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 14 Aug 2007, 04:52 Post subject:

BlackAdder · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 382

See this topic. The hack works for me, maybe I should try to create a more elegant solution some time.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1705074565&t=19710

Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

Question to the cognoscenti: is not the subdir /tmp in fact a ramdisk, and, since so, would it not solve moebigsley's problem to simply copy the EZpup .pet to /tmp and unpack it from there--especially if he has a swap partition?

***EDITED it turns out that, as of 2.17-1, /tmp is *not* a ramdisk, so this wouldn't work.

This may change in a future version of Puppy...

bobwrit · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 286

i installed the dotpet in 2.16.18 and all the themes installed just fine but the program i keep on seeing from other's puppy's dosen't apeer(when veiwin the installed pakages, there isn't and executables i think. it's a long list so i didn't look at it all yet.) any way of executing the program after the pet is installed?

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 14 Aug 2007, 22:21 Post subject:

mattst8ler · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Bedford, Texas

Botanic · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 240 Location: Toulouse, France

hello ! just to mention an error in EZpup-2.1.7R2
the "draw" icon for Inkscape is replaced by the OpenOffice "Draw" Icon

Botanic · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 240 Location: Toulouse, France

aïïïïï i wanted to try to change my cursor, result: my desktop has disappear! only the tray is left, and i can't get my desktop back !!
(not a big problem for me, i remastered Puppy not long ago, i'll just delete my current pupsave)

anyway i'd like to mention something: i'm scared at how people use graphical items from Windows(R); show some respect ! Smile

surprise to see blinky INSIDE the tray!! Very Happy

that is step 1 of 3; let's hope in the next version we can have freememapplet and mini-volume !
cheers

EDIT: thank you Wolf Pup for your tip for fixing the desktop, i didn't read this thread entirely.
freememapplet appears now in my tray after i uncommented the 2 lines in the startup file...
now what to do for having mini-volume in the tray too?