How to install alien programs in Puppy?

[DC]

Hi All,
I’m looking at trying to get Mediamvp running on Puppy. On the web site http://www.mvpmc.org/ they only mention Debian and Mandrake.

So to make this a general question. When software is for other distributions or things like rpm format.
What will work with puppy?
Any lookup tables for when things are put in different places?
Are commands mostly the same?

David

[fbender]

I guess, RPMs will work, as long as their dependencies are fullfilled. I recommend you to use Dotpups, a very comprehensive archive is located at http://dotpups.de/dotpups . I don't know whether there's a Dotpup for mvpmc, try searching the various forums or post a Dotpup request in this forum.

Regards,
Florian

[DC]

The Dotpups are very good, but I would like to learn the differences etc.
Of what I can use and how etc.

David

[WhoDo]

Hi All,
I’m looking at trying to get Mediamvp running on Puppy. On the web site http://www.mvpmc.org/ they only mention Debian and Mandrake.

So to make this a general question. When software is for other distributions or things like rpm format.
What will work with puppy?
Any lookup tables for when things are put in different places?
Are commands mostly the same?

David

Hi David,

The problem you've got is more about whether the deb or rpm requires Gnome or KDE. That's where you are likely to run into the most problems running on Puppy, IMHO.

Either deb or rpm can be used otherwise - find undeb and unrpm from the Puppy repos. Further, Gslapt (also in the repos) will let you download and install from slackware repos. In many cases, however, you might be better recompiling from source. You will need devx_2??.sfs for that - the 2?? relates to your Puppy version.

Hope that helps

[muggins]

it's also helpful to sometimes check either:

http://www.linuxpackages.net

or

http://packages.slackware.it/