Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[PupGeek]

[technosaurus]

Here is a fairly simple way to compile other programs that makes them easily configurable as a RoxApp

run ./configure --help
you should see a list that includes --prefix= , --bindir= etc...
you will want to set all of these to /usr/local/apps/$MY_PROGRAM_NAME

here is an example:

[abushcrafter]

thank you thank you I'm downloading kdenlive..... yes yes yes happy me

[abushcrafter]

How the heck do you run these

[abushcrafter]

arr...

[PupGeek]

You extract them from the .tar.gz archive, then you have an application directory. If you are using Rox filer (Puppy's default file manager) you simply click on the directory.... It is shown with the applications and other files because the AppRun script makes it an application and the .DirIcon will give it its unique icon.

The process is simple with these... just download, extract, and execute.... from anywhere. These were packaged with puppy 4.2.1 using binaries, mostly from the slackware repo and many from the ArtistX liveDVD. On puppy 4.3, I have heard the squashfs needs to be converted from version 3.1 to 4.x. On older puppies that use squash 3.0 or older, they will error out and will not run. Keep in mind, that I had these roxapps working well on an old 400 MHz computer with 320 MB RAM, but I was using a 1 GB swap partition .... I tried using GIMP on a 2.6 GHz system with 512 MB ram and it kept crashing on me until I mounted a swap partition on a USB flash drive. If you do not have a swap partition and these apps keep crashing, try making a swap either on your hard drive or a flash drive.... Even an old 256 MB or 512MB flash drive might work. I can't be sure though, as I have only used 1 GB swaps. You can even repartition the flash drive so that only part of it is reserved as a swap partition. It would work best if you frugal your distro to, say, a 4 GB flash drive with one GB reserved for swap. make a boot cd (even a business card cd will work as you do not have to have the pup_xxx.sfs file on it) with the pmedia=usbflash hardcoded on it, and you can take your computer anywhere you go..... without having to lug a laptop around.

abush, looking at your error log, it seems to me that you need to convert the squashfs to a newer version. I will ask how to do that and post a howto on this.

dingo, did you try to edit the AppRun script with the changes I showed earlier? If so, were you able to get what you wanted?

[abushcrafter]

thanks muchly

[PupGeek]

If anyone here is interested, I also have ProducerPup available. It contains half of the apps I listed here and more. If you are planning to download GIMP, Blender, and Kdenlive, they are all included in ProducerPup as well as Audacity, Hydrogen, LMMS, and others. ProducerPup is based on Puppy 4.2.1, so the rest of these apps will work with it. You can find more information on ProducerPup by going to:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=371017#371017

[Lobster]

[seaside]

Here's a way to convert the old SFS files to the new ones for use in the Roxapps.

Download and extract the tar file

Right click the app icon directory and choose "look inside"

Rename the XXX.roxfs to XXX.sfs

Open Menu >Utility>Convert sfs

Drag & drop XXX.sfs into Converter

Rename resulting "sfs4" to XXX.roxfs


Also, if this doesn't work within four hours, seek immediate medical attention

Cheers,
s

[PupGeek]

thank you seaside, Apparently, that feature is only available in puppy 4.3. I will have to try that

[abushcrafter]

sh-3.00# ./AppRun
Qt: Locales not supported on X server
kbuildsycoca running...
Qt: Locales not supported on X server
QInputContext: no input method context available
QInputContext: no input method context available
Failed to load plugin: libswscale.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
KCrash: Application 'kdenlive' crashing...
Could not find 'drkonqi' executable.
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.

[PupGeek]

Thank you Abush... I have downloaded a copy of puppy 4.3.1 and will have to try this out to be sure of what is wrong.... Keep in mind, however that if there is any extraction of these squashfs files to a vfat partition, symlinks are not extracted and may be necessary.... I will run the program on 4.3 to check it out.

[abushcrafter]

Lobsters idear worked btw.

Success after adding the lib it moaned about it loads

[abushcrafter]

moans: Can't save work as a project only export. By can't save, I mean no file exists where i set it to save(and yes its not hidden). My other moan is I can't import theora video but can export. Otherwise its raver stable