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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

Prerequisite - A working installation of Puppy Linux with the appropriate devxXXX.sfs loaded/installed
General pet Packaging 100 - suitable for alpha testing - minimal command line
0. Find your source package (I recommend getting sources from http://packages.debian.org/source/etch/ ... use the one ending in orig.tar.gz)
1. Download the package to ../anydirectory/package-name.tar.gz
2. Open it in ROX and extract all to ../anydirectory/package-name
3. Click on the directory you just extracted to open it
4. Right click select -->menu-->terminal here
--------- <--This begins the command line part - don't worry its easy
5. build the package using default configuration

dawnsboy · Posted: Sun 07 Dec 2008, 17:37 Post subject:

Thank you very much for this tutorial on creating pet packages from source. I followed the instructions and accomplished the following:

Created a *.pet package
Installed the package with petget
Package registered with petget
Program operated flawlessly after installation

What I did not accomplish:

Place item in jwm menu

Petget claimed to have created a menu entry in the Fun category of the menu ( I made the appropriate entries when running the script). I restarted the window manager but no new menu entry. I rebooted the computer but no new menu entry. I ran "fixmenus" and restarted the window manager but no new menu entry. I located the *.desktop file for the newly installed package in /usr/share/applications and opened it with a text editor. All of the information is correct. The *.desktop file is displayed in ROX with the assigned icon. Clicking on that file launches the application. Even so I am unable to get a new menu entry for this application.

I am using Puppy 4.1.1. Can you tell me how to place an entry in the menu for this item that won't be removed anytime I run fixmenus? Thanks.

jrb · Posted: Sun 07 Dec 2008, 18:35 Post subject:

dawnsboy,
Open your .destop file and check the Categories=. Open another .desktop of an application which is in the same menu area you wish yours to go into. Make sure yours has the same category listed. While your there compare the other parts of your .desktop too. Make sure they are arranged the same way as the working .desktop.

dawnsboy · Posted: Sun 07 Dec 2008, 21:42 Post subject:

Thanks! That did the trick. I had opened a *.desktop file to view the basic structure and compared it to the one created for the package I had just installed. Everything looked good. But after following up on your suggestion I discovered that "Fun" (which is a menu category) is not a category for *.desktop files. Apparently games, action games etc will do just fine though.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

I added a section for making user friendly pet packages to include dependencies in your pets.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 16:47 Post subject:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

@Pizzasgood - Thanks, updated in the original post

Evil20071 · Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008, 01:08 Post subject:

Could you tell me where to get the appropriate devxXXX.sfs for 4.1.2 and what the heck to do with it? sfs files never have gotten along with me well. I don't know what to do with them.

adiemd · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

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General .pet Packaging 101 (a little more command line a lot less bloat)
0. Find your source package (I recommend getting sources from http://packages.debian.org/source/etch/ ... use the one ending in orig.tar.gz)
1. From a terminal download the package:
2. Extract the package
3. Change to the directory you just extracted
4. configure the package
*read the readme.txt or equivalent in the package-name directory for any additional tags
5. make the package
6. create pets including DEV, DOC, NLS
In Step-3 of new2dir: choose option 3 to split out the pet into:
.pet (for all users)
DEV.pet (developer files)
DOC.pet (documentation)
NLS.pet (localizations)
Here is the code for steps 1-6.
Code:
wget http://www.someurl.com/distro/src/package_name.tar.gz
tar xzvf package-name.tar.gz
cd package-name
./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i486-t2-linux-gnu
make
new2dir make install
i've done all of this but its doesn't work at all
what should i do?
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Evil20071 · Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:46 Post subject:

What kinda error you getting? I just learned something that might need to be added:

adiemd · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

ok it seem all in the folder i.e /sda3/....-i386.pet is empty and when i use dir2pet in the line #installwatch -o..........pkg.lst it come a message install watch........pkg.lst not found and when i install pet package form it it doesn't come or show in menu list such as multimedia...... ie gxine and the program it doesn't open how it is

Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 19 Dec 2008, 20:19 Post subject:

You get devx files from here:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/sfs_modules-4/

Install method depends on how you run Puppy. For anything but a full-hd install, you just download the file to /mnt/home/. Note: it must be in the root of the partition containing your pup_save.2fs file. Now you may need to run the boot manager (Menu->System->Boot Manager) and tell Puppy to load it on bootup, unless you have it set to just load anything ending in 412.sfs. Now reboot, and you should be good to go.

If it's a full-hd install, you download it wherever, then click it to mount it. Open a terminal inside and run cp -a * / to copy the contents into /. Then click it again to unmount it. Now you can delete it if you want.

You can also do the whole process from the commandline like this:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

Update - I have come up with a couple of bash scripts that will do (most of) this for you (turns a source package into a sfs, 486-pet, DEV-pet, NLS-pet & DOC-pet .... where applicable)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41758

still in development, but it will already do many basic packages

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Wow, techno

Thanks, I read that thread.....

You almost make me feel like stepping out of the flying saucer and walking across the pacific Laughing

It almost has me wanting to try something, but this is just WAY over my head....

Where can I read something that may give me a clue what your wonderful work can help me do?

I like both ttuuxxx's 214xx & big_bass's slaxer_pup.......but the great beyond beckons and I find it scary......help! Wink

Aitch

disciple · Posted: Fri 31 Jul 2009, 21:58 Post subject:

One major problem with dir2pet is that it doesn't seem to catch symlinks most (all?) of the time. This particularly means that if you compile a library e.g. libsomething.so.0.6.0, you'll need to add the symlink libsomething.so.0 (or is it libsomething.so, or perhaps both ?) to the package, otherwise if someone tries to compile against it they'll get an error "-lsomething not found", and probably not have a clue how to fix it.