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Hi,

I'm also using Opera 10.60 portable from Michalis (same link, stu90 posted) with luci-209. No problems so far.

~ Rolf

Edit: If you want a different language pack, look here.
Best place seems to be /Opera-10.60-6386-portable (or whatever your folder is named)/share/opera/locale/
Installing: Menu -> Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Language, Details.
Choose your downloaded file (xxx.lng) and that's it

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

Sadly, I installed Ktorrent today with that packet manager, repeat of the old story and about fifty files to uninstall manually, one by one, to get rid of the disk fattenings. Do not understand yet how Pctorrent works but it is surely not user-friendly. I used Ktorrent in SUSE distros and it immediately came in the moment I clicked a torrent in Firefox.

"Pets" by quickpet are reliable, work fine.

Nevertheless, I grew addicted to Puppy Linux in only a few days; it is lean and quick and the most things that I need are present either in the distro or in quickpet.

I use it on 2 towers, each with 2xHD so always an extra swap partition on the "other" HD to use every bit of speed gain. Old machines, one is 1GHz 2x80GB IDE HD, 780MB RAM and the other 425MHz, 2x20GB IDE HD and only 256MB RAM.

Couldn't resist trying opera 10.60 also.
Indeed quite more performance then SeaMonkey.
I looked in htop, but can't quite interpret the results.
I see multiple pids/instances for SeaMonkey as well as for Opera.
Should I add the ram footprint for each instance to have the total ram usage?
In that case I have overcommitment of my 1GB ram for SeaMonkey as well for Opera.

Is the absence of a md5sum hash checker in lupu-501 an oversight or by design?

B. K. Johnson

deleted, posted in the wrong place

Is the absence of a md5sum hash checker in lupu-501 an oversight or by design?

md5sum is a command line program in 5.0. gtkhash will be in lupu 5.1 in less than one week.

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

willem1940NLD, I think you will be much happier with the puppy-lucid repo in Lupu 5.1. The programs there are all tested and configured for lucid puppy and more can be added as they are developed. As you have seen, just because a program works in Ubuntu does not mean it will be a slam dunk in Lucid puppy.

playdayz wrote:

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

willem1940NLD, I think you will be much happier with the puppy-lucid repo in Lupu 5.1. The programs there are all tested and configured for lucid puppy and more can be added as they are developed. As you have seen, just because a program works in Ubuntu does not mean it will be a slam dunk in Lucid puppy.

Do you mean "5.0.1" (which I am using) or something new again? All I found in there for updating/extending are quickpet and install. What/where is the "repo" you are mentioning?

The not-scrollable in between list during the use of "install" seems a bug to me, as it can grow larger than the screen.

Just loaded 508b2

Interesting desktop look ...

Still has the scrolling problem in Seamonkey.

As stated in the title I can't update any packages on my lucid puppy.

When I go to quickpet and click update packages it pops a green window which tells me I have to go on the internet page automatically opened to download the updates, and then I have to click on it for the installation.

Alas the web page does not work any more and it tells me
"The Update is now part of the News
- run Quickpet
then News and click on any updates"
which I don't understand in the least.

Thank you for your replies !

Open QuickPet then click on the "News" tab then click on the the "Lucid Puppy News" bar in the middle of the window.

That will bring you here:
http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/LupuNews/

And you will see this information there:

Instant Update 002 for Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 -> UpdateLupu511-002
This is a small update with fixes for some new wifi cards using WPA and with fixes for some analog modems.
Click to Download and then Click to Install.

Announcing the release of Lucid Puppy Linux 5.1.1!
Lucid 5.1.1 -> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... pu-511.iso
6e34d1bcdad74df7d6352a6d672522ec lupu-511.iso

Well the problem is that I don't have that "news" tab, but I do have a "update tab" which opens up a browser page which tells me the same thing as you, which is to go to the news tab.

My version of quickpet is v2.0 and my lucid puppy is the 5.0.1

Thank you !

Lucid is a 5.1 plus there were 3 updates, 001, 002, and 003.

You may want to bring the OS up to date and try again. It is only a guess that this may solve the problem.

If I want to upgrade from 5.0.1 to 5.1 do I have to format and to do a fresh install or is there a way to update the system ?

You will want to go to this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=419879

Essentially, presuming you have a Frugal-type install, you download the ISO to your HDD, click on it to open it, copy three files to the directory where your older three system files are, and reboot. It will update your system.

But ask on that thread as better-informed folks than me are there - including those who put Lucid 5.1 together and who are tweaking it daily.

So if I don't want to do a full upgrade there is no way altogether for me to update some packages ?

I thought the 2.0 branch was to be continued independently of the 2.1 branch.
Am I mistaken ?

Thank you for your answers.

Sathors wrote:So if I don't want to do a full upgrade there is no way altogether for me to update some packages ?

I thought the 2.0 branch was to be continued independently of the 2.1 branch.
Am I mistaken ?

Thank you for your answers.

I am really not the best guy to ask - you need to go to this thread and ask:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=419879