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MU · Posted: Mon 23 Oct 2006, 11:55 Post subject:

Backup /usr , then overwrite it to test that.

Must leave work now, see you later.
Mark

edoc · Posted: Mon 23 Oct 2006, 11:58 Post subject:

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

My, my, you guys have gone forward. Not sure I catch the drift of what is going on here.

Just for grins, here is the output you asked for Mark, even though edoc already gave you some:

MU · Posted: Mon 23 Oct 2006, 19:50 Post subject:

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

Well, your instructions were not idiot-proof enough for me. Rolling Eyes

In the end of the pupget and dotpup installer dialogs, it asks if it should install. I said no on the pupget (guessing that expansion was all that was necessary), and yes on the dotpup (don't ask why). The answers to these questions are not self-evident. We need friendlier (simpler) package installers.

It is strange what that symlink dotpup does. Before, two links independently pointed at a file, e.g.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

pango is a library for rendering internationalized texts

http://www.pango.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pango

it has everything to do with text in other languages

i suspect that the pango library might be responsible for Gxine crashing in fullscreen too, in Puppy 1.x

if you want, you can backup the /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 symlink by just dragging it somewhere, from 1 Rox window to another Rox window

you can make a new symlink by right clicking /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1200.2 ... click Link ... name the link libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (just delete the .1200.2 from the end of the file name)

it's possible to crash Puppy messing with the library files ... i don't think fixing the symlink will crash Puppy, but it might

another way to do it is from the command line:

cd /usr/lib
ln -sf libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1200.2 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0

of course, i could make a dotpup that would fix the symlink ... that's exactly the way i intended dotpups to be used, to help newbies that don't know about gunzip and symlinks etc etc ... it's a lot faster to make a simple dotpup than to explain to a confused newbie who has never used anything other than Windows how to fix their problem from the command line

MU · Posted: Tue 24 Oct 2006, 05:36 Post subject:

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I had already done that grep for 1003 in the packages, this is what I got:

/root/.packages/PangoCairo.files:/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1003.1

I decided to go into the Pupget manager to look at the list of installed packages. Interestingly, it gave me two "Pupget package clash" messages. One was for ltmodem, which is now apparently on the standard Puppy 211 ISO, where I had installed it myself for earlier versions. So, it cleaned the extra installed one out, which I suppose is good (haven't tested it yet though).

The second one was for pango-1.12.2. That was what you had me install, but I didn't fully install it. Strange that it should complain with the "clash" message. I did see a "PangoCairo" package, that I didn't even know I had. It was installed just before epdfview, so perhaps it was a pre-requisite for that, I don't know. I suppose it is the one that brought in that 1003 file.

It's almost as if, when updating to a new puppy release, everyone should go into pupget just to see if there are going to be any clashes!

Even after it cleaned up pango-1.12.2, it still shows PangoCairo in the packages. Perhaps I will remove that, and epdfview also since I use a different pdf viewer anyway.

Is this pango stuff part of the standard Puppy? I'm guessing it is.

edoc · Posted: Tue 24 Oct 2006, 23:42 Post subject:

MU · Posted: Wed 25 Oct 2006, 10:44 Post subject:

Make a copy of your file pup_save.3fs from time to time before installing new programs.

Then you easily can restore a stable system.

Mark

edoc · Posted: Wed 25 Oct 2006, 14:50 Post subject:

Billcnz · Posted: Fri 26 Jan 2007, 00:15 Post subject:

I notice flashplayer-9 is still crashing the browser when clicking some links on web pages but is working OK on some other distro's I've tried. Also it's install script doesn't run in Puppy:

sh-3.00# ./flashplayer-installer
./flashplayer-installer: line 69: iconv: command not found
./flashplayer-installer: line 76: [: `)' expected, found 2

ERROR: Your glibc library is older than 2.2.
Please update your glibc library.

So it gives a false message about the glibc library. Of course it's easy enough to install manually and will work fine for most things, but crashes the browser when you click on certain links. Flashplayer-7 doesn't crash the browser but some websites only work with the newer version.

edoc · Posted: Sat 24 Feb 2007, 00:30 Post subject: