Removing Pidgin package borked my Lucid install
Removing Pidgin package borked my Lucid install
Hi all
I had my puppy running like a dream with everything installed working ok and
very fast on this 8 year compaq with nVidea card.
Then I discovered that pidgin had no icon in the menu.....
and I decided to find a package that maybe had the missing package
I removed the installed pidgin package and Lucid 52 was gone !
This is from a live cd as my full install on the harddrive is failing with Xorgwizard and I am left with a terminal...
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How can I restore settings on hd from this live cd
OW
I had my puppy running like a dream with everything installed working ok and
very fast on this 8 year compaq with nVidea card.
Then I discovered that pidgin had no icon in the menu.....
and I decided to find a package that maybe had the missing package
I removed the installed pidgin package and Lucid 52 was gone !
This is from a live cd as my full install on the harddrive is failing with Xorgwizard and I am left with a terminal...
..Y
How can I restore settings on hd from this live cd
OW
Can you run xorgwizard and get back to a desktop?
After running xorgwizard
At the prompt type xwin
Try this:
If this is a full install.
Boot with the Puppy live CD.
Run the Puppy Universal installer.
Choose to do a full install to the same place as your broken full install.
You will be given a option to do an upgrade or wipe.
Choose upgrade.
It should replace what is broken.
After running xorgwizard
At the prompt type xwin
Try this:
If this is a full install.
Boot with the Puppy live CD.
Run the Puppy Universal installer.
Choose to do a full install to the same place as your broken full install.
You will be given a option to do an upgrade or wipe.
Choose upgrade.
It should replace what is broken.
Can you run xorgwizard and get back to a desktop?
No!
I wiped the hd and made a new full install.
Thank You much for ideas. I am still running live cd I have to reboot to see if all went well.
I will remember Your answers to the next surpricing behavor of my belovered
Lucid 520 which is awsome. I will not install Pidgin full video package again.
OW
No!
I wiped the hd and made a new full install.
Thank You much for ideas. I am still running live cd I have to reboot to see if all went well.
I will remember Your answers to the next surpricing behavor of my belovered
Lucid 520 which is awsome. I will not install Pidgin full video package again.
OW
I had my puppy running like a dream with everything installed working ok and
very fast on this 8 year compaq with nVidea card.
Then I discovered that pidgin had no icon in the menu.....
and I decided to find a package that maybe had the missing package
What pdigin package were you using please? One from the Puppy Package Manager in Lucid 5.2
When attempting to install new software, I like to extract the packages to a directory of choice (such as one I created specifically for that purpose), write a script that exports paths to your $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables, and runs the program. Basically I make a roxapp out of it, which is just about always safer than installing it the traditional way. For more information on how to do this, you can check out the Basic Shell Operation thread in this forum, as I go over how to do this in the first few posts.
Basic Shell Operation
As for the glx extensions missing, thats because puppy did not come with openGL but you can get that by installing the Xorg-high package. This is needed by many multimedia programs like Blender and Kdenlive and such.
Basic Shell Operation
As for the glx extensions missing, thats because puppy did not come with openGL but you can get that by installing the Xorg-high package. This is needed by many multimedia programs like Blender and Kdenlive and such.
Hi bigpup
OW
Will this procedure leave what already have been installed and downloaded ?If this is a full install.
Boot with the Puppy live CD.
Run the Puppy Universal installer.
Choose to do a full install to the same place as your broken full install.
You will be given a option to do an upgrade or wipe.
Choose upgrade.
It should replace what is broken.
OW
To repair a broken full install.olewilly wrote:Hi bigpup
Will this procedure leave what already have been installed and downloaded ?If this is a full install.
Boot with the Puppy live CD.
Run the Puppy Universal installer.
Choose to do a full install to the same place as your broken full install.
You will be given a option to do an upgrade or wipe.
Choose upgrade.
It should replace what is broken.
OW
For full installs only. Yes it will leave what is already installed programs.