Other painless tarball installs

[dustypenguin]

Using usr_devx.sfs and the standard compiling commands (./configure (sometimes), make, and make install) I have found some tarballs that install very nicely to puppy. Besides windowmaker covered in a previous post.

bluefish 1.0.4
wmCalClock
hvclock

Other applications that extract into a directory and run with out installing ...
xampp-linux-1.5 (see this though: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1669)
egroupware
thunderbird 1.0.7
firefox 1.5

Are there others that should be included in either list?

[Flash]

Thanks, that's excellent. I discovered last night how easy it is to "install" Thunderbird. Which makes me wonder why all Linux applications aren't done the same way.

[aahhaaa]

Dusty- nice news about T-bird! Is that you on the frappermap ?
http://www.frappr.com/puppykennels

[dustypenguin]

Dusty- nice news about T-bird! Is that you on the frappermap ?
http://www.frappr.com/puppykennels

that'd be me

[Flash - not logged in]

You can add Skype to the list. See my post here.

[dustypenguin]

Great! Now if I had a faster connection to try it out on ......
Thanks for the tip Flash.

[peppyy]

DOH!

Puppy has made everything so easy for me that I have just about forgotten the basic linux commands. There is a dot in front of the /configure command isn't there I must have been stuck in irc or something.

Goes back to the test machine with a grin on his face.

[Guest]

Skype quit working in Puppy 1.0.7 When I click on the icon it flashes as though it tried to start but nothing happens.

[PuppyUsr]

Try running skype manually through a console box. (Ex:# /root/my-applications/skype-1.2.0.18/skype)

It gave me an error where I was missing libGL.so.1 libraries. If it gives you a similar error, go ahead and download and install the following dotpup. It should fix it if, in fact, that is the error.

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/download.php?id=493

[Flash]

Thanks PuppyUsr, that fixed it.