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[666philb]

this is a spin of quickpet for precise puppy,



quickpet and slickpet were well liked by users, enabling them to easily install popular packages.

i love precises PPM, and think Barry has done an amazing job improving it, speeding up dependency checking, speeding up updating the repos (this now takes under a minute as opposed to 20+ mins on lucid) and making it more compatible with the ubuntu repos than lucid was.

some users find it a little intimidating though and just want easy access to a few popular programs, so i've had a go at making a quickpet for precise.

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quickpet_precise 2

changes....

1.most packages now hosted by pemasu
2.added devx, kernel sources, QT, stellarium ,slimboat and qupzilla browsers
3. there's now an update button
4. shrunk the package to 106kb
5. vlc, qupzilla, smplayer & stellarium now share qt (may cause problems with the PPM! we'll see)
6. improved dropbox install
7. tooltips added
8. updated to googleearth 7
9. fixed skype link
10. added groovejaar & gtk-youtube-viewer
11 added a games tab
12 now using dropbox to host the files
13 added steam (games portal)
14 added desura (games portal)
15 fixed menu icon
16 added xombrero browser
17 updated browsers & nvidia driver
18 0.7added instantbird, gogglesmm, wuala, mixxx, openhexagon & love2d
19 0.8 added openoffice, libreoffice, librecad, guvcview, qosmic
20 0.9 added pinta (requested by lvds)
21 1.0 added graphic drivers for precise 5.6
22 1.1 re added xchat
23 1.2 added kingsoft office, guayadeque, foobnix, gmusicbrowser ,audacious, qmplay2, avidemux, lmms & updated tixati...
auto desktop icon thanks to 01micko
26 1.6.2 added qbittorrent, amule, google music manager, hotshots , inkscape
updated tixati & grooveoff
27 1.7 smoother updating,gui size changer, updated openoffice, libreoffice, firefox, chromium & added drivers for 5.7
28 1.8 updated google chrome, firefox, iron, tor & deadbeef (thanks to oscartalks). fixed supertuxcart & warzone links (thanks to zx81), fixed flash installer (thanks to shinobar)
added thunderbird email
29 now hosted on ibiblio

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suggestions for 'popular' packages missing, are welcome.

enjoy

666philb aka mrfricks

[pemasu]

First impression is nice. I could provide those datafile host et mediafire files in upup-precise repo. First I need confirmation that they all work. There is some overlapping things also. VLC probably has qt libs included. That VLC version had subtitles working, Billtoo compiled one ?

Smplayer suggests to use Ubuntu Precise qt libs, I didnt use them when I compiled Smplayer so I dont know the compabilty.

Fix the Mutimedia to Multimedia in the quickpet script.

Up to date Firefox you will get as Canonical version from PPM after you update PPM. That is nice way to get the latest Firefox easily. It wont be updatable , probably. Only by installing new version by PPM again. In good and bad.

Really nice alpha version in quickpet spirit. There is the never ending update cycle problem though.

[bignono1]

Well done mate, nice working with precise.http://imagebin.org/242514

[pemasu]

I have now uploaded to the upup precise repo your external hosted apps. Excluding the vlc pet. I do have my qt apps separated so that they need just qt-4.8.2.sfs (renamed as that) and then you install the compiled qt apps, which comes without qt libs in my repo.

Load qt-4.8.2.sfs and then as many qt app as you want.

Vlc pet has its own qt libs, so I didnt upload it now. It works great though, subtitles are working, so it has been compiled right, which is rare.

I did change couple of upper case named app to lower case name, like Opera to opera, they are now all lower case named. It helps browsing the repo. I try to get rid of all upper case named stuff.

I have added also new slimboat browser to the repo. It comes with its own libs in /opt and so it does not mess with other libs. It is qt libs based webkit browser. There is thread about it in murga-forum. There seems to be fans for it. For me it looks like and behaves like Qupzilla.

I have Trolltech file in Upup Precise which makes qt apps lookout better. I did add that Trolltech file to the slimboatbrowser pet.

[01micko]

I don't know if you include a quckpet icon or not in the pet, but here is s snippet that works for placing an icon on the desktop in the pinstall.sh, it's from the "browse as spot" program I wrote a looong time ago, but the idea is there.

[pemasu]

qupzilla-1.3.5-precise.pet uploaded to the upup precise repo. It needs also qt-4.8.2.sfs for usage. 2.1 Mb browser pet !

[666philb]

uploaded a new version quickpet_precise 0.2, attached on first post.

packages now hosted by pemasu, other changes mentioned on first post

hi 01micko, thanks for posting that, i was thinking of trying to get an icon on the desktop. unfortunately i can't get the pinstall script for the icon to work, not sure what i'm missing, i'll look into it further.

[pemasu]

666philb. I tested the stripped ( qt libs separated ) vlc-2.0.5. In my tests it worked ok, also with subtitles, with qt-4.8.2.sfs. Vlc-2.0.5 has been uploaded to the upup repo.
There is also vlc-2.0.3 in the upup repo. That one has been compiled by Billtoo, correctly. It has dvb tuner and subtitles support, and it handles fine different formats. So....there is from what to choose.

Quickpet-0.2 looks great !!!
There really is now browsers from to choose. Also there is now great selection of other popular apps to download.

Thank you of your work with Quickpet. Many puppy users appreciate it.

[nancy reagan]

Hi Phil,

First of very much thanks of the quickpet.

[tytower]

For Pets info Go to install , choose Barrys notes -Package manager Intro web page
end up here
http://puppylinux.com/development/package-management.htm
follow links for good explanations
I cant fault PBurn for burning DVD's-had no trouble with it and I was a k3b regular-its under Multimedia

[666philb]

hi nancy reagan

sorry it took a while to reply .. i've been quite busy!

digikam is huge 198mb! so i'm not adding that, k3b i might add, athough i've no cd drive at the mo to test it. and clonzilla seems to be something you run from a disk.

i've added the new googleearth 7 though, and also a link to dupfinder on the useful .pets tab.

i've not made a new pet of quickpet as you can update quick_pet precise using the update option in the menu

the best way to understand .pets is to look inside one. install the rightclick options pet... then right click on a pet to extract it

[666philb]

fixed broken skype link

[MikeyBrat]

LOVIN' IT

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Precise 5.4.3 frugal on PNY 8gb usb plugged into my Dell Latitude D630 laptop usually or to use some dell at work that has some windowz xp some-or-other on hd that takes FOREVER to boot.

[nancy reagan]

Hi Phil.

Thanks for your efforts

Nancy Reagan

[666philb]

updated ... please use the update button in quickpet

added a games tab and some games
added groovejaar
added gtk-youtube-viewer