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is it possible to make the pet package installer do more than just install program but also taking care the dependency files ???

I 'm thinking... is it possible that we put dependency databases into it ??? then we can even update it and eventually it would feel like ubuntu's synaptic

I assume that such database would just look like these :


Missing dependency ----> Action

libxml.so.1 ->ln -s /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 /usr/lib/libxml.so.1

ibgtk-1.2.so.0 ->ln -s /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0

libgdk-1.2.so.0->ln -s /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0

libgmodule-1.2.so.0->ln -s /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0

libglib-1.2.so.0-> ln -s /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0

etc etc
or

anything else... ---> download



btw the above line in the "action" are actual code used to enable cannon ip 1800 printer in puppy 42.

thank you

try woof alpha4 - its installer handles dependencies (so does petget but many packages do not have the dependencies listed... or they aren't available in the main repo)

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... of-alpha4/

ok I will try it, should i download the iso too ?



Thank

I try the upup 461 anyway because I don't how to use the woof alpha4.tar.gz...

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I cannot install pet files... however it show synaptic,

i'm hoping that we can install pet files by just click it the pet files then all dependecy will be taken care by the installer.
from the program however we can only select from the list, these is no way we can install individual pet files...
anyway this was closer to what i expect and i think this is good progress...