Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[berk0081]

I'm setting up a Puppy-based file and print server on a VIA EPIA 800 board. (the only modern distribution that would boot on the VIA C3)

After doing a lot to convert it to a multi-user system with sshd and to operate as I need it to without a GUI, I can't find a recommended procedure for installing a .pet package from the command line.

I've figured out pet2tgz and can then extract the tar files to install application files, but is there a way to ensure that all post-install scripts also get executed or check dependencies, other than to hunt for scripts and execute them manually?

Thanks,
-m

[MinHundHettePerro]

Greetings!

I'm in the middle of something similar, searching for a way to auto-install .pets without user interception that is.

Don't know what version of puppy, or petget that you're using. My main distro is ttuuxxx's 214X-series, which is very rapidly evolving, with new versions each and every week. So, my wish is to be able to install my usual (tried-out and certified) .pets from a script, with no interaction, whatsoever, from my part, for every new version of this pup.

This is what I do:
I edit the /usr/sbin/petget-script (check the actual /usr/sbin/petget-file, even though the name 214Xx suggests it's old, many things, including the package-manager has been up-dated) by inserting the lines ending with " # MHHP"

[berk0081]

Thanks for your suggestion. I have a new hard disk arriving in a few days, and then I'll try to modify this for Puppy 4.0. Actually, I should probably go ahead and upgrade the whole rig to 4.12

-M

[MinHundHettePerro]

Hello,

installing .pets this way also means that, I think, no info about missing packages/libs are displayed on screen. I'm only doing it this way for already downloaded .pets I know all the deps of. If you'd need info on missing pkgs/libs, it is written to temporary files "missingpkgs.txt" and "missinglibs.txt", I think. Look in the petget-script. An install-script could look for the info of those files.


cheers/
MHHP