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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 01:48 Post subject:
Even More Software [Solved] Subject description: Lucid 5.2 portable Apps |
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Wouldn't it be great if we could just go to a site
download a software package
move it to a required position
(I run from CD so move to my hard disk)
change permissions with a right click so it runs
and it does
Yes I know we have Quickpet
But what about even more packages?
try these:
http://portablelinuxapps.org/
Thanks to Mike for pointing it out
The portable Apps have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 32-bit
So try on Puppy Lucid which uses aprox 60% Ubuntu binaries
Other Puppys do not
click on the blue info button for info
[yes I know it is obvious . . .]
Give them feedback. Let us know how you get on
any missing libraries?
if you found added the libraries from Puppy package Manager or elsewhere?
I now have a Blue Griffon
HTML WSIWYG editor
and I iz going for more . . .
Puppy Lucid
Compatible with Penguins
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Makoto

Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 2096 Location: Out wandering... maybe.
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 01:52 Post subject:
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Right now, all I get is a (mostly) empty "Index of /" directory page.
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 01:58 Post subject:
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These have been tried as working. Did they work for you in Lucid?
Some are in PPM or Quickpet and they should be used in preference
(compiled in Puppy, probably smaller)
Amaya browser and HTML editor
aMule
Boxee
Calibre (tested x2)
Chromium
Cinelerra
Deadbeef
Dropbox
FBreader
Firefox
Focuswrite - minimal distraction WP
Fotowall
Flashplayer
Gimp
Inkscape inkscape0.48rc a bit problematic - stable quickpet versions available
Keepas
LibreOffice (available with Quickpet)
Opera
Ophcrack
Peazip (tested x2)
pidgin
Pinta paint program http://pinta-project.com/
Qbitorrent
Rednotebook - a personal journal
Remobo
Scribus
Seamonkey
Skype
Spideroak (tested x2)
Sqlitestudio
Teamviewer
Terminal
Viewnor
VLC
Wireshark
Xara Extreme
Zenmap (this needs python - use PPM and under utilities you will find python)
Some are later versions than Quickpet packages.
I would expect them to be larger than Puppy compiled packages too?
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Makoto

Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 2096 Location: Out wandering... maybe.
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 02:08 Post subject:
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Well, personally, I'm not using Lucid, so I wouldn't know.
I've had the site bookmarked, but it's not working for me at the moment, so I couldn't grab anything to test, anyway, either.
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 02:16 Post subject:
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The portable Apps have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 32-bit
and other big dog Linux.
Puppy Lucid uses aprox 60% Ubuntu binaries
Other Puppys do not
- you can not expect portableapps to work on them
On Lucid you can . . .
Puppy Lucid 5.2
More OS for no $
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mhanifpriatama
Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 60
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 02:42 Post subject:
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I have tried it and can run: libreoffice, inkscape0.48rc (but a bit problematic), FlashPlayer, Calibre, PeaZip, sqlitestudio, blender.
Blender must use a high-xorg.
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 06:11 Post subject:
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Got this with WikidPad after installing python
will try a reboot and see if that makes a difference . . .
Code: | # ./WikidPad\ 2.0rc10_1
Exception occurred during global exception handling:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/bin/ExceptionLogger.py", line 42, in onException
f = open(os.path.join(EL._exceptionDestDir, "WikidPad_Error.log"), "a")
IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/bin/WikidPad_Error.log'
Original exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/bin/WikidPad.py", line 1, in <module>
import WikidPadStarter
File "/tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/bin/WikidPadStarter.py", line 83, in <module>
import wx
File "/tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/share/pyshared/wx/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
from wx._core import *
File "/tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/share/pyshared/wx/_core.py", line 4, in <module>
import _core_
ImportError: /tmp/.mount_diQ2pM/usr/share/pyshared/wx/_core_.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromWideChar
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stu90

Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1399 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 09:20 Post subject:
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I have been using portable linux apps for a while now on Lucid Puppy.
To save writing a list here is a screen on what i have in my portable apps directory.
XBMC doesn't work (i made a .pet for it anyway) but portable Boxee work great on Lucid 5.2 add navi-x to it and you never short of films and TV to watch.
Also used to have Gimp in there but it doesn't work right on 5.2
I think aBiblia some kind of Christian/Bible? application also works.
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mikeslr

Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 2339 Location: 500 seconds from Sol
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 14:11 Post subject:
Credit Stu90 for discovering Portablelinuxapps |
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Hi All,
Although I may have brought them to Lobster's attention, Stu90 brought them to mine.
And while they seem mostly to be limited to Lucid Pups, GYache-Improved may work on sPup.
Unfortunately, the portablelinux apps to build other apps don't, and I lack the skills to figure out what's missing from Puppies.
mikesLr
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3170 Location: wales
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 21:47 Post subject:
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A great find, and thanks for sharing....these are working fine on my 520
aMule
Cinelerra
pigin
Spideroak
Ophcrack
a question though.
I've had this problem before. If i make a symlink from the app, then try to execute the app by clicking the symlink, it doesn't work. Why is that? I'ld like to put them into my main menu, but can't until i solve this.
Any advise would be appreciated
thanks
666philb
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Jasper
Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:24 Post subject:
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Hi,
I don't know how to do what you want, but alternatively perhaps you could drag and drop the icons on your desktop then you could, if desired, change the descriptions and/the icons by right clicking.
You could then make shortcuts to any of those icons.
Otherwise, if you use the radky apps menu you may be able to adapt it to include your choices.
My regards
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stu90

Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1399 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:44 Post subject:
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666philb wrote: | A great find, and thanks for sharing....these are working fine on my 520
aMule
Cinelerra
pigin
Spideroak
Ophcrack
a question though.
I've had this problem before. If i make a symlink from the app, then try to execute the app by clicking the symlink, it doesn't work. Why is that? I'ld like to put them into my main menu, but can't until i solve this.
Any advise would be appreciated
thanks
666philb |
666philb,
Try removing/replacing any blank spaces i the executable name.
If you wan't to add a menu entry you will need to make a new desktop file in /usr/share/applications direct Exec= to the location of your portable app (doesn't need to be in your save file) then run in Terminal: fixmenus
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3170 Location: wales
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Posted: Wed 26 Jan 2011, 06:17 Post subject:
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Thanks for the replys,
It's wierd, i've left the computer on over night and now all my menu links are working. This must be to do with me not running fixmenu (allthough the computer was rebooted multiple times after making my .desktop files) , puppy must have done it itself.
It's still odd though that before i went to bed, i dragged amule onto my desktop, clicked it and nothing happened, did the same thing this morning and it worked?!
I guess the pixies and faires came and mended it whilst i slept......
thankyou pixies & faires
666philb
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danneauxs
Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 92
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Posted: Fri 28 Jan 2011, 18:57 Post subject:
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LOL, just another example of having people talk over your head. Pets I get, sfs's I get, even debs I sorta get. But I'll admit I'm lost with this. Too many years of wondows and exe's I guess. I truly want to learn though!
Ok, what do I do once I get to http://portablelinuxapps.org/? I see a page of icons (using opera) and if I click on an icon a new page opens up with garbage text on it. I assume this is a binary file that is actually supposed to download but is being handled wrong. So instead I right click and save the file to my drive. But there's no default extension for the file.
Example I downloaded Calibre 0.7.23 but there's no extension to let me know what type of file this is. Maybe it's obvious but I'm new so no, not so much to me. Should I be saving these with some extension?
How do I install/get them to run.
Any help would be appreciated since I am again trying to switch to puppy permanently and it's pretty close this time so I'd like it to stick.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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danneauxs
Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 92
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Posted: Fri 28 Jan 2011, 19:11 Post subject:
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Found an offhand reference a couple of dozen threads later about setting permissions (right click saved file, select permissions and then click the yes button) then left click on the file.
I LIKE this much better than some of the other things I had to go through to get programs to work.
COOL
Danneaus
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