How can I install pupgets at the console prompt?

[Jock]

I want to install 1.06 puppy on a toughbook. I know the display won't work straight out of the box so I was going to install the xf86 svga 3.3.6 package and set it up using xf86config. How do I do this at a console prompt?

Best regards
Jock

[rarsa]

You can execute the pupget script from the command line. I'm not using puppy right now and I don't remember the full name of the script, but if you open a console and start typing 'pupget' and then press tab twice, you will get a list of scripts that match that name.

You pass the package name as a parameter.

[Pizzasgood]

/usr/sbin/pupget

Not to be confused with /usr/sbin/pup-get, which is the old version.

[BarryK]

If you look at the script, you will see that it accepts a parameter on the
commandline:

# pupget +abiword-2.4.1
or
# pupget abiword-2.4.1
to install a PupGet package, in this case Abiword.

# pupget -abiword-2.4.1
to uninstall a PupGet package previously installed by PupGet.

[Jock]

At the command line when I type pupget somepackage
(no X running)
I get the message

Error: Can't open display:
killall: xmessage: no process killed
TEST: COMMANDPKG=somepackage

Do I ignore these errors?

Best regards
Jock

[MU]

if the script continues to work, you can ignore these messages.
they simply mean, that no X is running.

Mark