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Problems in installing packages
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Gurglin

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Jan 2009, 11:44    Post subject:  Problems in installing packages  
Hi,

I use version 4.1.1, and cannot install packages directly. Whenever I click on a .pet package for installing it, Puppy copies it into “/.packages”, but still “packed” in its pet-box and without installing it. For a proper installation I have to go into “/.packages” and click on the pet package again. Then everything goes on smoothly.

Thanks!
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rjbrewer


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PostPosted: Mon 12 Jan 2009, 13:17    Post subject:  
If you look in the menu, an entry for the package is likely to be
there, unless it says otherwise when you installed it.

Have to restart jwm? or x? for it to be there.
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Gurglin

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Jan 2009, 14:08    Post subject:  
rjbrewer wrote:
If you look in the menu, an entry for the package is likely to be
there, unless it says otherwise when you installed it.

Have to restart jwm? or x? for it to be there.


Thanks for your answer. Sadly enough there is no trace of any installation, apart from the .pet packages shifted (or copied) to "/.packages"...
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Gurglin

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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 06:04    Post subject:  
Gurglin wrote:
rjbrewer wrote:
If you look in the menu, an entry for the package is likely to be
there, unless it says otherwise when you installed it.

Have to restart jwm? or x? for it to be there.


Thanks for your answer. Sadly enough there is no trace of any installation, apart from the .pet packages shifted (or copied) to "/.packages"...


I manage to install the package only going to "/.packages" and clicking on it... In other words what it should be the "normal" installation process, in my laptop is a mere copying process of the package to "/.packages"... weird...
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looseSCREWorTWO

Joined: 04 Feb 2010
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Location: Australia, 1999 Toshiba laptop, 512mb RAM, no HDD, 431 Retro & 421 Retro
PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 07:33    Post subject:  
G'day Gurglin,
You haven't said how you boot Puppy (CD, HDD, USB Stick ?) or anything about your computer system specs.

In any case, I would be running a filesystem check and thinking seriously about re-formatting the Drive and re-installing Puppy. My best guess is that some of your Puppy system files are missing or corrupted.
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Gurglin

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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 16:53    Post subject:  
Hi looseSCREWorTWO,

Thanks for your answer.

I have Puppy installed on a partition of my 10-year-old Compaq Presario 14XL250. The machine has a Celeron 600MHz chip, 184M RAM + 8 RAM for the Video (64 original + 128 added), Trident Cyberblade video card, Chipset VIA PLE133.

I will follow your advice as soon as puppy 4.3.2 will be available, will test the installation of .pet packages again and will post here the outcome.

Thanks again
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looseSCREWorTWO

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Location: Australia, 1999 Toshiba laptop, 512mb RAM, no HDD, 431 Retro & 421 Retro
PostPosted: Wed 26 May 2010, 09:07    Post subject:  
G'day,
with those specs you need to create a Linux-Swap partition of about 400mb, which Puppy will use as extra "virtual RAM". Lack of RAM might explain some of your PC's odd behaviour. I would also suggest you try Puppy 421 and 421 Retro, booting from CD in the first instance, to see if one of them works better. I've fixed up a few old PC's lately and found those 2 are very reliable on older hardware.

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-4.2.1-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-4.2.1retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso
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abushcrafter


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PostPosted: Wed 26 May 2010, 17:14    Post subject:  
Gurglin wrote:
I will follow your advice as soon as puppy 4.3.2 will be available.
I am finding 432v3 stable. Though there are some more updates for it.
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