Installing gtk+-2.12.1.pet messed up my desktop
Posted: Thu 03 Jul 2008, 16:48
Hi there,
I recently discovered Puppy Linux and am really happy with it. It it brilliant for getting some use out of my very old and useless laptop.
Everything was going well... I had version 4.0 running fine, set up my Netgear Wireless USB stick with the ndiswrapper and also set it up to mount a shared directory on startup.
I had also discovered the repository @ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ackages-4/ and had downloaded a few packages such as gqview.
On downloading gqview-2.0.4.pet and after installing it (if thats the right word), I ran it and although it worked, I discovered it had a quick moan about GTK being version 2.10 rather than 2.12.
Thinking I could easily fix this with the gtk+-2.12.1.pet, I downloaded and ran it. It seemed to hang, so I rebooted.
Now I get no user interface when I start the laptop, other than the taskbar bit at the bottom, which lets me pick programs - most of which won't now run.
I'm guessing I've mucked this up pretty royally? Is there anyone out there who can help me? It was all going so well....
EDIT: Forgot to mention... it is run and installed on the hard drive of my laptop.
I recently discovered Puppy Linux and am really happy with it. It it brilliant for getting some use out of my very old and useless laptop.
Everything was going well... I had version 4.0 running fine, set up my Netgear Wireless USB stick with the ndiswrapper and also set it up to mount a shared directory on startup.
I had also discovered the repository @ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ackages-4/ and had downloaded a few packages such as gqview.
On downloading gqview-2.0.4.pet and after installing it (if thats the right word), I ran it and although it worked, I discovered it had a quick moan about GTK being version 2.10 rather than 2.12.
Thinking I could easily fix this with the gtk+-2.12.1.pet, I downloaded and ran it. It seemed to hang, so I rebooted.
Now I get no user interface when I start the laptop, other than the taskbar bit at the bottom, which lets me pick programs - most of which won't now run.
I'm guessing I've mucked this up pretty royally? Is there anyone out there who can help me? It was all going so well....
EDIT: Forgot to mention... it is run and installed on the hard drive of my laptop.
