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edoc

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 4722 Location: Southeast Georgia, USA
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2007, 13:30 Post subject:
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Are most of the Slackware apps KDE dependent?
Sure would be unfortunate to have to accept KDE-bloat for new apps.
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Kal
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 624 Location: California, High Desert
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2007, 18:53 Post subject:
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edoc to answer your question, no.
If you install Slackware fully, you will find other window managers, file managers and apps that don't require KDE. I just like the added choice of KDE. My fully packed Puppy 2.17 frugal with KDE is only using 677mb of space.
Let's face it, programs like kirk is working on, are for convenience and choice.
Good Luck, Kal
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msumner
Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Lincolnshire, England.
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Posted: Thu 18 Oct 2007, 02:49 Post subject:
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kirk wrote: | msumner,
As far a KDE goes, I'm working on a package right now. I've got KDE & K3b packgage that's less than 50MB (compressed). Still need to work out some kinks. Probably possible to make a puppy iso at about 100mb with kde & k3b, would have to drop Seamonkey package, but KDE has Konqueror and would have to rebuild the kernel with lzma compression (or use 2.17's kernel). |
Hi Kirk, any news on the kde package? Looking forward to testing it.
Mike
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mjg

Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 109 Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
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Posted: Fri 19 Oct 2007, 06:37 Post subject:
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I'm using KDE 3.57 in Puppy 3 now, installed via Gslapt. Basically, I installed all the KDE libs and main KDE files.
I couldn't run KDE from the X prompt, it just defaulted to JWM.
The way I got into KDE was rather strange. I installed Fluxbox, and it has a menu option for Window Managers, which included KDE. I clicked on the menu option and KDE started.
All the main KDE applications work fine, including Konqueror and KOffice.
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friedsonjm
Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Fri 19 Oct 2007, 07:49 Post subject:
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Could you use Conky and see what the impact is on RAM by adding KDE?
jf
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kirk
Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1518 Location: florida
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Posted: Fri 19 Oct 2007, 17:10 Post subject:
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Updated the package. Change the .desktop file so that it would show up with KDE. Fixed a dummy package.
Started a new thread for KDE :
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=148044#148044
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miscos

Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 15
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Posted: Thu 25 Oct 2007, 00:52 Post subject:
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I am getting this error when after install in pyppy3.0 (frugal), i type 'gslapt' from console. If i clik on setup> gslapt pack manager, nothing happenas. I am using EZpup.
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kirk
Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1518 Location: florida
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Posted: Thu 25 Oct 2007, 10:56 Post subject:
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Sorry, I haven't played with ezpup. You can try opening a terminal and typing:
# gslapt
If that works then maybe ezpup does something to the menu structure.
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friedsonjm
Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Thu 25 Oct 2007, 16:45 Post subject:
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Anyone familiar with slackpkg? http://slackpkg.sourceforge.net/
jf
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miscos

Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 15
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Posted: Sat 27 Oct 2007, 03:29 Post subject:
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Kirk! I get /usr/sbin/gslapt: line 11: 3645 Floating point exceptiongslapt1 , when I typed 'gslapt' from console.
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kirk
Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1518 Location: florida
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Posted: Sun 28 Oct 2007, 18:24 Post subject:
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miscos,
Try booting up pfix=ram and installing Gslapt. That should work. I don't know if it's a problem with EZpup or something else broke in your pup_save file.
If anyone has used EZpup and Gslapt, please post.
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msumner
Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Lincolnshire, England.
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Posted: Sun 28 Oct 2007, 19:28 Post subject:
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Hi Kirk, I had ezpup installed on 3.00 before I installed gslapt. I still use it. I'm not in puppy now but I think I had to run it from terminal as no menu entry. Re installed it and menu entry was there. Apart from that, I think its working ok.
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mdisaster2
Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 107 Location: Rome, Italy
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Posted: Mon 29 Oct 2007, 05:43 Post subject:
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This may be worth looking into as well: http://www.stabellini.net/depslack.html
It is a replacement PACKAGES.TXT file for Slackware 12 which is like the original except it also has all the dependencies info for slapt_get.
I didn't try it yet with Puppy, but works great with Slackware.
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friedsonjm
Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Fri 02 Nov 2007, 15:41 Post subject:
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I'm trying:
xpkgtool which uses
slackpkg which uses
pkgtools
which seems to work well as a combination!
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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11193 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sun 04 Nov 2007, 04:41 Post subject:
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Hi i've been using this new to puppy package manger ever since you posted it on here. The thing i would like changed is maybe the ability to have multi-thread downloads, the main package hosting site slacky.eu is extremely slow, most of the time i get around 6-8 kb and some of the other host is around 600kb but the slacky.eu has the most applications, if you could figure out a way to multi-thread like 8 or so connections that would be excellent.
Another idea; if i've downloaded a package using gslapt. Then why can't i store it on another drive for example and reopen it locally to install it, You see sometimes when i make a fire hydrant release it might take 15 or so tries before i am happy with the end result, So basically i have to download the same gslapt programs 15 times, which i find is a waste of my bandwidth, time and also the package host bandwidth. Thats why i love pet and pup packages, because i store them locally and a few clicks later they are all installed too bad they don't get updated very often like java 1.5 is the latest package but 1.6u3 is the official latest and you can only get it from sun micro systems or slackware, but the slackware one is missing system links for local applications, so that doesn't work, but really java is a real necessity for a lot of people and not to have the latest edition is just wrong for security reasons.
anyways i give gslapt a 7.5/10 . Its a tremendous leap forward for puppy, I think its excellent, its just a bit rough around the edges. But i am 100% sure that within the next few months we will see great improvements.
Well have fun
ttuuxxx
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