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#141 Post by MU »

if you can login to KDE, then you know usr_more.sfs is used.
It is used, if you have a folder /.usr_more (in Rox you must click on the "show hidden"-icon to see it).
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#142 Post by Revolutionist »

I am wondering if there is still interest with kde for puppy or a kde puppy ?
What if any problems that the interested developer's have had.

Would be glad to know what if anything is going on.

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#143 Post by MU »

I think grafpup has KDE meanwhile, and bombayrokers KDE/ the megapuppy seem to work so far.
If you also want to compile applications, use Nathans usr_devx.sfs instead of Barrys (that has changes in QT to avoid conflicts with KDEs QT).

I think the concept of and additional usr_more.sfs is much better as a "real" KDE-Puppy, as it is much easier to maintain.
The usr_more.sfs should work with Puppy 107, too.


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#144 Post by bombayrockers »

I agree KDE available as a usr_more.sfs is much better than a KDE puppy. I use it with fluxbox as my wm. If you want a KDE puppy take a baebones puppy (hopefully it would be having the required libs) and add usr_more.sfs to it.

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#145 Post by puppian »

Where's the KDE usr_more.sfs file?
I can't find it here:
http://noforum.de/dotpups/kde-01/usr_more.sfs

Or should I get it here?
http://noforum.de/dotpups/KDE-3.4.1a/

What's the latest version of the file, and would the dotpup here:
http://noforum.de/dotpups/KDE-3.4.1a/KDE-3.4.1a.pup
works too?

Thanks :)
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#146 Post by bombayrockers »

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#147 Post by puppian »

Thanks bombay :)
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#148 Post by Germanpup »

you people are AWESOME! except for a few little things kde as well as wine work fine for me (1.0.7. on a Sony laptop P3 600 Mhz)
bombay aap sab se accha hai! :D
I even have my doctor's app running under wine, pretty soon my whole office (I am an urologist) might just be windows free! Never got THAT far with wine! Maybe I should talk to the company about a windoze free version based on puppy!
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#149 Post by TomM »

Posting from KDE now. Very pleasing and I'm sure that you could build a good setup with BareBones Puppy + KDE + OpenOffice + USR_Devx.sfs. No problems. When using Barry's KDE.sfs it just woudn't work.

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#150 Post by bombayrockers »

Yes I would like to do that. When Pizzasgood releases EmptyCrust I would remove all remnants of mozilla + add kde + openoffice

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#151 Post by Hopeless »

Hi all, a brilliant effort by everyone involved!

However... I can't get a puppyKDE live disc built. I can't have a pupxxx on this computer as it's ntfs and puppy has broken it once already! I can't seem to remaster a live cd in ram on my other computer (have managed it with 1.0.6, but can't seem to get it happening today with 1.0.7).
Has anybody seen an iso of puppy+KDE on the web somewhere?
Alternatively is there anybody here who would be prepared to build + host one?

I know I'm asking an awful lot, but puppy is the nearest I've ever been to being able to say goodbye to MS forever. It works perfectly on my home laptop with dialup, where almost no other distros will even run. The only problem is that I've fallen in love with KDE and anything else just seems... well, not nice.

Thanks for all the hard work, regardless.

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#152 Post by Nathan F »

I was considering creating a KDE-Puppy iso but life got in the way. I may still get to it sometime after Grafpup-102 (coming in about 2-3 weeks).

The best way to do this would be to create it from scratch using PuppyUnleashed. Unfortunately you can't do this at all from within an ntfs partition.

I may be re-formatting my entire hd soon and installing Vector Soho, so I would be able to build an iso on that. I'm using my company laptop for Grafpup right now and it's only got 2 gigs of linux space that I snuck in, so I can't fit two versions of Unleashed in at the same time (let alone leaving room for compiling apps for Grafpup).

If someone else is interested in trying this then don't wait for me to do it. Go ahead and get it done.

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#153 Post by bongmaster »

im about to attempt installing kde (from .pup at top of page)

hope it works.. i prefer kde
is te usr-more.sfs essential? i have a hard disk install of puppy (no pup.000 file at all) and am unsure about mounting that sfs..

i will if it has to be. but all i want is a nice kde desktop instead of the basic puppy one...
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#154 Post by MU »

yes, you need both.
Note, this is a older, reduced version.
The most complete actually is:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/Megapu ... README.htm
That was made for Puppy2, but if you extract the files, it might work too in a harddriveinstallation of Puppy1.
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#155 Post by bongmaster »

i have just redone puppy from fresh on hard drive with puppy 2.02

so this is a full kde desktop then? and will work ok with it?
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#156 Post by MU »

what is redone?

I did not try it with a full install, but it should work.
I use it in Puppy 2.02 as a frugal installation.
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#157 Post by bongmaster »

i prefer to use a full hard disk install as it can be more stable than mounting file based filesystems :) imo

i'll try it out tho :) as long as it dont mess things up :D
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#158 Post by bongmaster »

ok i got it installed. but i do not think the sfs is being mounted (due to my install being a full hard disk install) ..
how do i mount this sfs? or extraxt the contents to the right locations?
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#159 Post by muggins »

with a full hard disk install you should just have the .sfs file under / , then it should be seen & mounted automatically on bootup.

a hidden directory /.usr_more should be there after reboot. i can't remember if i ever had to symlink anything or not?

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#160 Post by bongmaster »

well i managed to mount the megapup sfs to a folder in mnt, and then merged the contents with the rest of the system..

i now can run kde, but have no apps in the start menu :? but its working so that bit is done :) so far so good :)
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