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#21 Post by step »

tallboy wrote:Great! Please look through the Pinfo activation script, it expects a man-page reader that first tries to open internal files instead of those online.
Don't know, sorry, there is no Pinfo activation script in the source package. I compiled it and got a binary file, a man page and an rc file.
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#22 Post by rufwoof »

Lynx used to be part of the OpenBSD base (so along with twm/cwm/fvwm you had X and a browser without having to install any third party programs), but they pulled it due to concerns over the security and quality of lynx code.

Chromium is popular within the OpenBSD desktop user community nowadays because that runs fully under pledge, which is OpenBSD's (more effective) equivalent of Linux's seccomp and offers much improved security.

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#23 Post by tallboy »

step, I got Pinfo from the Ubuntu-universe and -multiverse repo in the updated ppm for my Lucid 5.2.8.7. I installed pinfo_0.6.9-5 and install-info_4.13a.dfsg.1. In earlier puppies I used versions taken from a Debian repo.
I am unfortunately unfamiliar with your Fatdog64. :(
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#24 Post by greengeek »

tallboy wrote: (Uhh, I don't really have to remember it, I use the simple, excellent and old-fashioned NoteCase to archive Linux and Puppy tips! :D )
Now there's an idea - any chance of making your notecase tip archive publicly available? I'd love a copy
cheers!

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#25 Post by tallboy »

Now there's an idea - any chance of making your notecase tip archive publicly available? I'd love a copy
cheers!
How is your norwegian? :P
It is actually a mix of norwegian comments to many copied english sentences from this forum, and articles and howtos. I'll think about editing an english version. If I do it, you'll get the first copy to make a review! :D
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#26 Post by greengeek »

tallboy wrote:How is your norwegian? :P
To be honest "Carlsberg" is the only Norwegian word I know :D

I think it might be really handy for the Puppy newsletter (which uses notecase format just as you are doing) to regularly include a "database" of puppians handy hints - not necessarily long winded notes or tutorials, but "shorthand" tips and one-liners.

Things like:
- how to interrogate what disks are mounted
- how to use ffmpeg to capture screen activity
- how to display webcam output
- how to display memory usage
- how to turn swap on and off
etc
etc

Command line stuff really. Is that the type of thing that is in your notecase archive?

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#27 Post by tallboy »

To be honest "Carlsberg" is the only Norwegian word I know
Eeeh, OK, close enough, Denmark is only a few hours away on a southbound ferry...
Command line stuff really. Is that the type of thing that is in your notecase archive?
Yes, exactly those easy forgotten details for when I use commands that come in handy, maybe once a year! Some clever options, and some no-no-no-never things not to do. :D
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#28 Post by greengeek »

tallboy wrote:Eeeh, OK, close enough, Denmark is only a few hours away on a southbound ferry...
oops, my bad. Wikipedia let me down :-) Lervig maybe?

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#29 Post by tallboy »

A very mature choice! But maybe hard to find abroad. A couple of pints of Big Ass Money Stout 2, at 16% (!) alcohol content, should make your life more interesting! 8)
http://lervig.no/en/brewery/
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#30 Post by sindi »

I just tried to use lynx 2.8.8 (which I compiled long ago with few dependencies) and was told I need a newer browser for
duckduckgo. Lynx 2.8.9 at sdf.org works, as do their recent links2 and elinks.

Lupu won't run Palemoon 28. Puppies 6 won't handle the nvidia chip on my preferred 2007 laptop.

lynx-cur 2.8.9rel for debian jessie works in debiandog jessie (on 2004 computer).
Debiandog Jessie wont save changes on my 2007 laptop.

I copied my own lynx.cfg and lynx.lss to /etc/lynx-cur/. Jessie I think has libc 2.19.

The newer binary is missing dependencies in racy, which I had updated to glibc 2.20.
libtinfo.so.5
libgcrypt.so.20
libbsd.so.0
libgnutls-deb0.so.28

It is also about ten times as large as my older lynx, which needs libtinfo but not the others. It uses libnettle and
libhogweed (cryptographic libraries) which may be what duckduckgo now wants.

I did not try it in tahr puppy.

Could someone please compile lynx 2.8.9 or later not to need these dependencies or at least to be static and work in any
puppy linux with a new enough glibc? Even in lupu? I am not skilled at compiling in puppy linux and had help with 2.8.8 in
basiclinux. Also links2 and elinks would be nice.

My 2.8.8 works with fbi framebuffer image viewer to show images and even weather graphs.
Far faster than anything graphical, no annoying javascript, almost no ads.

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Wikipedia no longer works with lynx 2.8.8 either only newer

#31 Post by sindi »

Wikipedia works with lynx 2.8.9rel1 but not with 2.8.8 as of Jan 1 2020.
Javascript is not needed for it or duckduckgo.com/lite/.

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#32 Post by rockedge »

I have compiled lynx 2.8.9rel1 for Puppy Linux Bionic64 if any one is interested.

here is the Link -> http://rockedge.org/kernels/data/PET/Bi ... x86_64.pet

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lynx 2.8.9rel1 for puppies 5

#33 Post by sindi »

Thank you for the Bionic 64 version but my laptops run older 32-bit puppies.

The main one won't run puppies 6 (video is scrambled). Lupu and racy work.

Can you compile lynx statically on your setup or dynamically to work with lupu 2016, racy 5.5 (glibc 2.2.0 upgrade) and
precise-lite 5.7.1 (glibc 2.2.0). Racy won't run on another laptop.

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Re: Wikipedia no longer works with lynx 2.8.8 either only newer

#34 Post by jrb »

sindi wrote:Wikipedia works with lynx 2.8.9rel1 but not with 2.8.8 as of Jan 1 2020.
Javascript is not needed for it or duckduckgo.com/lite/.
I just downloaded https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/re ... _linux_386.
Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.

Browsh is available as a single static binary on all major platforms. The only dependency is a recent 57+ version of Firefox.
I ran it in Precise-light and Tahrpup. I don't have a Firefox that runs in Racy but it sounds like it should work.

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#35 Post by rufwoof »

rockedge wrote:I have compiled lynx 2.8.9rel1
Same version as what I use, but I pretty much only use it for pasting text from Linux to my Android phone. SSHelper that I use for sshfs mounting the phone also hosts a clipboard access Web server that provides read/write access to the Android clipboard from any browser on the local network. Lynx is great for that.
tallboy wrote:Do you use lynx as a regular browser, or just as a file browser like I do?
I use mc ... as my file manager, text editor and program launcher (user menu). In mc you can set lynx like navigation (Options/Panel/Navigation).

Combined with screen (terminal multiplexor) and you can use its copy buffer to arrow/scroll around, and select/copy text using the spacebar in readiness for pasting into your Android/wherever.
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#36 Post by tallboy »

Interesting, I'll try that. :D
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#37 Post by rockedge »

Hello sindi

working on a build of lynx2.9.0dev.4-i386.pet created on a Lucid 5.2.8.005 running the stock kernel 2.6.33.2 SMP

Update : it works but not with https connections and duckduckgo has the warning on this most recent Lynx version which I believe is not Lynx, since it is the newest, but the openssl libs available in Lucid that are the problem.

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#38 Post by OscarTalks »

Hello rockedge,

I compiled lynx2.9.0dev.4 in Dpup Wheezy and even the lynx homepage gives an SSL error initially (testing in a fresh pfix=ram boot), but installing the ca-certificates package fixes this. Not sure if it will in Lupu as the OpenSSL version is older in that.
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/ca-certi ... -03-08.pet
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#39 Post by rufwoof »

tallboy wrote:Interesting, I'll try that. :D
With SSHelper running on the android phone open lynx on your laptop to the ip of the phone port 8081 (by default).

For me to mount the android over usb cable I use simple-mtpfs where I mount that as /mnt/android on my laptop

simple-mtpfs --device 1 /mnt/android

For mounting via wifi I use ...

sshfs 192.168.1.$IP:/storage/emulated/0 /mnt/android -p 2222

where 192.168.1.$IP (is again set to the IP of the phone - i.e. I prompt for that and its usually a 192.168.1.X type number, so I just prompt for the last value and set IP= ... to that). Default phone password is usually 'admin' .. but best to change that.

After that you can use rox, mc, whatever to just move files around (or access/edit files etc.).

With a phone clip to laptop monitor attachment along the lines of the attached, you can be in cli/text only laptop whilst watching a movie on the phone (or whatever)
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#40 Post by jrb »

OscarTalks wrote:Hello rockedge,

I compiled lynx2.9.0dev.4 in Dpup Wheezy and even the lynx homepage gives an SSL error initially (testing in a fresh pfix=ram boot), but installing the ca-certificates package fixes this. Not sure if it will in Lupu as the OpenSSL version is older in that.
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/ca-certi ... -03-08.pet
I just tried your links-2.18-wheezy.pet in Precise-light and, with the installation of your ca-certificates-2019-03-08.pet it worked flawlessly, even on www.duckduckgo.com and wikipedia.org.

Once again, Thanks, J

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