Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

oui · Posted: Tue 08 Feb 2011, 20:15 Post subject:

Hi

Very good puppy! Thank you.

Only a little detail:

As old Puppy user I would now prefer to interchange the non classic puppy equipment with firefox + sylpheed + spot and reinstall the good old seamonkey this to have the possibility to re use all my actual seamonkey files from quirky and 511 as they are and reinstall them after an intervention on them with the laptop if I don't use the laptop (only the one laptop is able to work in 64 bit!) writing the files directly into /root/.mozilla/seamonkey as usual (the spot-management seems to split the data into different groups in /root/.mozilla and /spot, and not only for didiwiki as written in a text info)

and I would prefer to erase the firefox, sylpheed and spot because it need a lot of bites that I can better use.

Is that possible and what is to do?

Salut

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

If you want to run Firefox as root (Seamonkey would be similar) from the Fatdog home screen, click on "FAQs" and then on "Firefox won't save to xxxx."

As far as removing Firefox, deleting /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.12 will do it, but keep in mind it's in the read only SFS file, so deleting it really just hides it. To really remove it you could do this:

1) Copy the the contents of the main sfs to your hard drive.

# mkdir /mnt/home/SFS
# cp -a /initrd/pup_ro2 /mnt/home/SFS

2) Delete Firefox (you could add stuff too if you like)

# rm -r /mnt/home/SFS/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.12
# rm /mnt/home/SFS/usr/share/applications/Firefox.desktop

3) Make a new SFS file.

# cd /mnt/home
# mksquashfs sfs fd64-511.sfs

Also I uploaded a new pet package for Geany-0.20 including all pluggins (spell check).

Lobster · Posted: Wed 09 Feb 2011, 00:15 Post subject:

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1533 Location: The Blue Marble

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2623 Location: Earth

I had asked about VBox 4.02 for FATDOG.

Hope this helps

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1533 Location: The Blue Marble

Virtualbox compiles and installs cleanly in Fatdog straight from Oracle's installer. I'm using it right now. All you need is devx.

cheers!

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5240 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

And I thought the ordinary Puppy was fast.....WOW

Thanks a lot
Sigmund

dolphinsupernova · Posted: Thu 10 Feb 2011, 17:17 Post subject:

Very impressed with Fatdog. Got it on my new 64bit kit and blistering fast!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2623 Location: Earth

Thanks JamesBond. I think you foresee where this is going.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1494 Location: Ontario Canada

Here's a tetris game.

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1533 Location: The Blue Marble

anAF · Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 13

Hello,
do any of you know if it's possible to compile and run the Arachne browser under Fatdog64?
It also has a sort of gui to access the desktop and some utilities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_%28web_browser%29

Sources here:
http://www.glennmcc.org/aralinux/

Is it possible to compile and run it, or maybe to have a .pet? Or is it really just for a CLI-only version of linux? In that case, does a CLI only version of Fatdog exist?

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1533 Location: The Blue Marble

anAF, Arachne requires svgalib. Svgalib requires exclusive screen access, it is not compatible with X. Svgalib hasn't been updated for a very long time (wikipedia says since 2001) - so good luck trying systems that can actually run it.

If you need a CLI browser, I'd recommend elinks, available in the repository, with thanks to Billtoo for compiling it.

Fatdog CLI is always available - just choose Quit X Server from menu , or use pfix=nox in the boot line.

cheers!

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1533 Location: The Blue Marble

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1494 Location: Ontario Canada