Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jakfish]

SM Updater works fine with these specs: eee 900/4.1.2/frugal install

A small problem with SM updates: it doesn't appear to delete the previous 2.0 installation. For instance, when I did a puppy save, I lost 14 mbs of space, about the size of the update. Is there a directory I can delete?

Jake

[DaveS]

[jakfish]

Wow, many thanks for these tips. Let me try them out and post back.

Jake

[jakfish]

DaveS,

That did it. I got about 90mbs back, which is about two SM 2.0's worth. Even though SM and .mozilla reside on a SD, I don't see any decrease in speed.

Many, many thanks,
Jake

[DaveS]

Ok Jake, brilliant. Now lets look at a little of the power of symlinks. I am guessing, but I guess you are running one of the 4.2 variants. Again, lets guess you have a normal email account, with say, www.crapmail.com. If you set this up originally through seamonkey 1.1.15, it would have built you an email account called say, pop.crapmail.net. When you installed seamonkey 2, presumably you allowed it to import all your email, bookmarks etc? So. You now have your emails in two places, seamonkey 1.1.15, and seamonkey 2. Trouble is, if you access your email via 1.1.15, it will save in a different place to SM2. You see the problem?
So. In /root/, follow the mozilla link, and you can navigate to your 1.1.15 email file. It will be in /root/.mozilla/default/n44rjsz7.slt(or something like)/mail/pop.crapmail.net. Leave the window open.
Now open a new window and navigate to the SM2 imported version. It will be in /root/seamonkey/wthelsu0.default(or similar)/mail/pop.crapmail.net
OK. So rename the SM2 version (its better than deleting coz you can go back) to maybe pop.crapmail1.net. Then drag and drop the 1.1.15 version into the SM2 directory and from the pop-up menu again choose to link.
Congrats. Both versions update and read the SAME email folder!
You can do the same with things like bookmarks (bookmarks.html), in fact anything you like.
If you then decide to dump SM2, you will still have all your email intact.

[jakfish]

DaveS--

ANOTHER intriguing idea, thank you. The only rub I can think of: at this point in development, SM 2 only allows email access through browser/email. There doesn't appear to be standalone email or addressbook, as there is with 1.1.5.

I do like my little JVM button that brings up email only, and if I'm not mistaken, I won't have the same with SM 2.0 email.

Or have I missed something?

At any rate, I guess I could take on your idea, since your advise is that I can go back and forth between the two SMs, but so far, I don't use SM 2 email.

Jake

[DaveS]

No, you are mostly right, except its only the way they load that is different, they are still two separate units, unlike Opera where mail is built in. Load the browser, and cntrl 2 loads the email interface. I expect it to revert to 1.1.15 like behavior before final release. I dont much like the way it loads either, but the mail unit has such a beautiful interface (theme). In both 1.1.15 and 2, in the mail interface, F9 toggles the folder tree on and off.

[DaveS]

[jakfish]

Very clean, thank you. The approach has all of Puppy's simplicity. I don't know if you use google calendar/contacts as a conduit to other calendars (the dreaded Outlook, for example), but as I mentioned in an post of this thread, full syncing is possible via google contact add-on in SM 2.0 addressbook and calendar add-on in sunbird.

You've been so helpful, I'd be happy to return the favor. Though when puppy-searched this, I found nothing about gcal or google calendar so this may an arcane issue for puppy users.

Jake

[DaveS]

[DespMike]

Hi, dear synth and friends,
could you please post a download-link for the last/latest version of your turbopup ?
I haven't found one and think turbopup would be ideal for my PII 233Mhz/512Mb Ram.
Being a complete linux-analphabet an iso with seamonkey would be of most use.
I state that as there are probably many around with an older computer who would love to have a lightning fast linux with internet etc., but are not technically as gifted (myslef included) to go through the assembly of a "full" version.
BTW the install to hard disk which requires grub etc. config is quite complicated - in fact I abandoned it - an automated install to harddisk would be great.
Best Greetings, congrats to and thanks for all these amazing efforts
Michael
PS: Hope not having been too much off topic

[noabody]

My P133 64MB laptop doesn't work well with Puppy 4.2 so I'm using 3.01. This is the error message for Puppy Linux version 3:
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
./opera: line 363 3381 illegal instruction "$OPERA_BINARYDIR/opera" "$@"

I understand that $ precedes an environment variable but I'm not all that familiar with Linux variables and don't know what @ signifies.

It works great on the Puppy 4.2 computers.

[dalderton]

I have downloaded the Opera pet but the only way it will work is to start it from a terminal.Running startopera does not work.I am using 4.2
The Seamonkey works fine but it seems that Fast Dial does not work with this version. This is a shame,has anyone got any thoughts on this.
Thanks for the efforts Regards Dennis

[edoc]

[dalderton]

Disregard my previous post.Went back to Opera today and clicked "startopera" and away it went. Odd!!!
Regards Dennis.