Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[klhrevolutionist]

Well, here it is. 125 megabytes of puppy with kde-3.5.0
You can startx icewm or startx startkde
You should try startx icewm as it has a greater menu selection
Big thanks to bombay for providing the great eye candy!!
Big thanks to MU for alway providing space!!
Big thanks to Babbs for providing space!!

Download
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.iso
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.txt

ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7/puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.iso
ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7/puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.txt

The puppy docs are zipped up. To use them go to /usr/share/ & unzip the doc.zip
If you have low ram, don't try to use live cd, rather mount the cd and extract.

[bombayrockers]

The theme was not completely done when I gave it to klh. This dotpup will install Korilla-final.

[MU]

Mirror:
http://dotpups.de/isos/

[babbs]

Mirror:
Dir - ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7/
ISO - ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7/puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.iso
md5 - ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7/puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.txt

(Edit - fixed an oops in the link)

[Lobster]

I got it working OK using the links in the first post

When running from CD I choose option 3 or 4 (the one that leaves your HD untouched and without ACPI)

It goes throught the familiar Puppy questions about mouse and xorg (no xvesa I think) so select xorg

then you have a prompt
type xwin

and then with a penguin prayer you are into KDE
and it is very much KDE
You can find mtpaint and sodipodi (Abiword was not working - might be disabled for Kate and other KDE progs)

I was able to change resolution but could not connect to the net (but early days)
It seemed very stable and loaded faster than SLAX (thanks to all that underlying Puppy goodness)
I turned off a lot of the eye candy to get more speed (may be necessary for some)

Nice Good job Kenny

update:
Using xwin icemm
will enable a more traditional Puppy from which you have access to KDE and Puppy and can connect to the Internet - so I am writing this from KDE-Puppy . . . and very nice too . . .

[Guest]

Really good one, Kenny!
Lobster - if you have a router and Puppy has recognised your NIC, you can issue a dhcpcd command before starting KDE, something like:

[klhrevolutionist]

I'm glad you liked it guest! But for my aching head, what
does the -t & 2 do when you do that dhcp thing you mention ? I know what -d means, I think. Thanks. And like sundance & butch cassidy, I'll ask "Who is that guest?"
dhcpcd -t 2 -d eth0

[EarlSmith]

I was amazed how fast it loaded and ran. Very good start. With the speed of puppy, KDE and IceWM both look very good. This could develop into a spin-off of Puppy. Have you thought of adding either Koffice or OpenOffice 2.0? Kuppy would run rings around other KDE distros.

[klhrevolutionist]

Actually I stripped koffice from this kde. I note that barry has provided top notch
replacements to the rather big openoffice & koffice. You have scribus, abiword
and if you download mu's plugin package for abiwrod you will see why abiword can compete with the big dogs. And I thought of this as a start. Eventually with enough interest you will see more & more dotpups for kde. Thus, there will not be a need for putting everything in the iso; rather people will download applications they find useful. As far as a spin-off. Well, linux for christians does not look like it ever got lifted off yet so who knows ? lol

As for packages they are everywhere. You can use slax modules with the know how of course & slackware.


abiword plugins download
http://www.dotpups.de/dotpups/Office/abiword-2.4.1-plugins.pup

[MU]

http://noforum.de/man2html.php?page=dhcpcd

[Guest]

Most of the programs seem to work perfectly, but my installation on a machine without other Puppy components had the odd problem.

In exploring the KDE menus:
gnumeric and abiword do not start because they are missing libgnomecanvas-2.so.0. They also complain about missing pixmaps, but run anyway once they have access to libgnomecanvas;
knotes, kmail and akregator are missing libGLU.so.1;
kwifimanager asks for libvorbisenc.so.2 (don't know why);
The gimp looks very much like mtpaint when it has started.

Only minor blemishes in what is otherwise a terrific puppy variant.

Did I miss something that would have made those library components available?

[SamSung]

Well done to everyone that worked on this. A great job looks and runs great, some tiny quibbles similar to other posts, Abiword does not run and also the install to hard drive with option two does not work on my copy. But these are minor things, I think this Puppy has a great future.

[Guest]

OK I hope the following is useful

When trying to use KDE Menu --> Information --> Any of the options in this menu except Network Interfaces, Protocols, Samba Status, USB Devices and PCMCIA generates a missing lib msg the lib is libGLU.so.1

KDE Menu --> Internet --> KWiFiManager - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Internet --> AKregator - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Internet --> Kmail - nothing happens

KDE Menu --> Office --> KaddressBook - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Office --> Korganiser- nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Office --> Kontact - nothing happens

KDE Menu --> Settings--> Country Region and Language - not able to choose a language although the language files seem to be present in /opt/kde/share/locale.

KDE Menu --> Utilities --> KNotes - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Utilities --> Klipper - nothing happens

EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE KDE MENU WORKS.

I could not get the dot-pup downloader to work either after choosing Setup --> Dot Pup Pkg Installer clicking on the dotpup downloader button caused nothing to happen.

There maybe something I am missing as this is all rather new to me, but I hope that the above helps in some way.

Any help on what to do to get the above to work and be able to install on the HDD would be useful as I think this Puppy is amazing.

[SamSung]

Hi the above is mine I am using Konqueror and was not logged in.

[MU]

LibGLU:
Install xorg-opengl with Pupget.

Dotpupdownloader:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2144

libvorbisenc + libgnomecanvas:
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0-missing-libs/

Mark