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Posted: **Fri 03 Feb 2006, 15:31**

Well, here it is. 125 megabytes of puppy with kde-3.5.0
You can startx icewm or startx startkde
You should try startx icewm as it has a greater menu selection
Big thanks to bombay for providing the great eye candy!!
Big thanks to MU for alway providing space!!
Big thanks to Babbs for providing space!!

Download
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.iso
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.txt

ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7 ... -3.5.0.iso
ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7 ... -3.5.0.txt

The puppy docs are zipped up. To use them go to /usr/share/ & unzip the doc.zip
If you have low ram, don't try to use live cd, rather mount the cd and extract.

Posted: **Fri 03 Feb 2006, 16:05**

The theme was not completely done when I gave it to klh. This dotpup will install Korilla-final.

Posted: **Sat 04 Feb 2006, 01:23**

Mirror:
http://dotpups.de/isos/

Posted: **Sat 04 Feb 2006, 06:25**

Mirror:
Dir - ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7/
ISO - ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7 ... -3.5.0.iso
md5 - ftp://puppyfiles.us/pub/releases/v1.0.7 ... -3.5.0.txt

(Edit - fixed an oops in the link)

Posted: **Sat 04 Feb 2006, 09:20**

I got it working OK using the links in the first post

When running from CD I choose option 3 or 4 (the one that leaves your HD untouched and without ACPI)

It goes throught the familiar Puppy questions about mouse and xorg (no xvesa I think) so select xorg

then you have a prompt
type xwin

and then with a penguin prayer you are into KDE
and it is very much KDE
You can find mtpaint and sodipodi (Abiword was not working - might be disabled for Kate and other KDE progs)

I was able to change resolution but could not connect to the net (but early days)
It seemed very stable and loaded faster than SLAX (thanks to all that underlying Puppy goodness)
I turned off a lot of the eye candy to get more speed (may be necessary for some)

Nice

Good job Kenny

update:
Using xwin icemm
will enable a more traditional Puppy from which you have access to KDE and Puppy and can connect to the Internet - so I am writing this from KDE-Puppy . . . and very nice too . . .

Oo-oo-ooh, call them the diamond dogs
Oo-oo-ooh, call them the diamond dogs
Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow
Call them the diamond dogs

David Bowie

Posted: **Sat 04 Feb 2006, 22:33**

Really good one, Kenny!
Lobster - if you have a router and Puppy has recognised your NIC, you can issue a dhcpcd command before starting KDE, something like:

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dhcpcd -t 2 -d eth0

That will let you into the Internet - this post made from Konqueror.

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 00:53**

I'm glad you liked it guest! But for my aching head, what
does the -t & 2 do when you do that dhcp thing you mention ? I know what -d means, I think. Thanks. And like sundance & butch cassidy, I'll ask "Who is that guest?"
dhcpcd -t 2 -d eth0

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 01:05**

I was amazed how fast it loaded and ran. Very good start. With the speed of puppy, KDE and IceWM both look very good. This could develop into a spin-off of Puppy. Have you thought of adding either Koffice or OpenOffice 2.0? Kuppy would run rings around other KDE distros.

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 01:25**

Actually I stripped koffice from this kde. I note that barry has provided top notch
replacements to the rather big openoffice & koffice. You have scribus, abiword
and if you download mu's plugin package for abiwrod you will see why abiword can compete with the big dogs. And I thought of this as a start. Eventually with enough interest you will see more & more dotpups for kde. Thus, there will not be a need for putting everything in the iso; rather people will download applications they find useful. As far as a spin-off. Well, linux for christians does not look like it ever got lifted off yet so who knows ? lol

As for packages they are everywhere. You can use slax modules with the know how of course & slackware.

abiword plugins download
http://www.dotpups.de/dotpups/Office/ab ... lugins.pup

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 01:38**

http://noforum.de/man2html.php?page=dhcpcd

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 09:35**

Most of the programs seem to work perfectly, but my installation on a machine without other Puppy components had the odd problem.

In exploring the KDE menus:
gnumeric and abiword do not start because they are missing libgnomecanvas-2.so.0. They also complain about missing pixmaps, but run anyway once they have access to libgnomecanvas;
knotes, kmail and akregator are missing libGLU.so.1;
kwifimanager asks for libvorbisenc.so.2 (don't know why);
The gimp looks very much like mtpaint when it has started.

Only minor blemishes in what is otherwise a terrific puppy variant.

Did I miss something that would have made those library components available?

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 14:10**

Well done to everyone that worked on this. A great job looks and runs great, some tiny quibbles similar to other posts, Abiword does not run and also the install to hard drive with option two does not work on my copy. But these are minor things, I think this Puppy has a great future.

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 17:23**

OK I hope the following is useful

When trying to use KDE Menu --> Information --> Any of the options in this menu except Network Interfaces, Protocols, Samba Status, USB Devices and PCMCIA generates a missing lib msg the lib is libGLU.so.1

KDE Menu --> Internet --> KWiFiManager - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Internet --> AKregator - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Internet --> Kmail - nothing happens

KDE Menu --> Office --> KaddressBook - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Office --> Korganiser- nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Office --> Kontact - nothing happens

KDE Menu --> Settings--> Country Region and Language - not able to choose a language although the language files seem to be present in /opt/kde/share/locale.

KDE Menu --> Utilities --> KNotes - nothing happens
KDE Menu --> Utilities --> Klipper - nothing happens

EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE KDE MENU WORKS.

I could not get the dot-pup downloader to work either after choosing Setup --> Dot Pup Pkg Installer clicking on the dotpup downloader button caused nothing to happen.

There maybe something I am missing as this is all rather new to me, but I hope that the above helps in some way.

Any help on what to do to get the above to work and be able to install on the HDD would be useful as I think this Puppy is amazing.

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 17:24**

Hi the above is mine I am using Konqueror and was not logged in.

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 18:31**

LibGLU:
Install xorg-opengl with Pupget.

Dotpupdownloader:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2144

libvorbisenc + libgnomecanvas:
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3. ... sing-libs/

Mark

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 21:48**

Thanks Mark.

Posted: **Sun 05 Feb 2006, 23:11**

Well, next iso should be a lot better. As I am trying to get kde-3.5.1 working properly. As for this iso I really did rush it. The dotpup downloader was taken out of the iso as I am also trying to get pacman or conary to work. Might have to settle for 0install. As for the kde components not working probably missing libraries
nothing big.

But with all of this info it will make it better for next time! Thanks.

Also, I included the webcam driver rarsa compiled. Can you all tell me if it is working for you, that is if it supports your cam. You can find out if your cam is supported from this link, http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html if it is supported, go to kopete and open it. Then go to configure kopete then webcam configuration.

Posted: **Mon 06 Feb 2006, 09:29**

On the webcam, if it is not working run these commands
depmod -ae
modprobe videodev
modprobe spac5xx

Also, can anybody tell me how to make rox & kicker start ?

Posted: **Mon 06 Feb 2006, 09:42**

maybe like this, just before "exec $CURRENTWM":

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CURRENTWM="`cat /etc/windowmanager`"
if [ "$CURRENTWM" != "startkde" ];then
 rox -o -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
 kicker&
fi

I had no look at your .xinitrc yet, I assume it is based on Puppys .xinitrc.

-----------------
**edit**
Hm, in Icewm the rox-icons are already working.
In kwm not - and I don'thave an idea how to get them to work, just tried it...
But you can drag files from rox to the KDE-Desktop (create link).

Mark

Posted: **Mon 06 Feb 2006, 12:31**

Here is what I did:
As my CD-drive is broken, I had to install it to the harddisk.

Before I had used a frugal install, I had Puppy 107 installed with the XP-installer.
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=5117
So I already had a working "grub"-bootloader.
Now I downloaded the KDE-Puppy.
I mounted the new ISO.
In my old Puppy:
mkdir /root/mount
mount -o loop /mnt/sda1/Puppy-107-KDE-3.5.0.iso /root/mount

Now I could copy the files from /root/mount to a Windows FAT formatted drive, and reboot to WindowsXP.

I created a folder c:/kdepuppy and copied image.gz and vmlinuz there.
I renamed my old c:/usr_cram.fs to c:/usr_cram.fs-107
I copied the new usr_cram.fs to c:/
I renamed c:/pup001 to c:/pup001-107
I unzipped a pup001.zip and renamed the new pup001 to pup002
http://noforum.de/dotpups/pup001.zip

Now I added this to c:/boot/menu.lst:

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title KDE-Puppy Linux 1.0.7
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        kernel /kdepuppy/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=18456 PFILE=pup002-none
        initrd /kdepuppy/image.gz

I booted and got the same error as with Puppy 107: usr_cram.fs not found.
So I patched image.gz to force it to use c:/
Download patched image.gz: http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3. ... r-WinXP.gz

Now it booted.
I ran xorgwizard - ok.
I typed "xwin" - does not work.
xwin startkde - no
xwin kde - no
xwin icewm - tadaa... that's it.

set up my adsl (installed adsl-start-dotpup), and copied /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf from another system.
Deleted the symlink /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/adsl-start.pup

Can connect to internet, but konqueror does not start, the error mentioned before with libqt.
Looked at /usr/lib/qt - there is something wrong. It is an empty folder, but I cannot copy files there.
Maybe that is, because I also have the compilertools usr_devx.sfs installed?
So I copy all files from /usr/lib/qt-3.3.4 to /root/.usr/lib/qt and reboot.
(did I also type "ldconfig"? Don't remember)
Again:
xwin startkde
Yeah! KDE starts in 6 seconds-coooool!!!

Nasty Rox - it is good, because you can click on a dotpup to install it, but I don't like it to copy or symlink files or extract archives.
So I install XFileExplorer first:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1922

And the KDE-menu has no Puppy-entries, so I install wxb-menue to get them:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1985

Oh... but there is no /root/.jwmrc, needed by wxb-menue... so copy it from puppy 107:
http://dotpups.de/isos/Puppy-107-KDE-3. ... /jwmrc.tgz

Now I can access puppys menu.
I run pupget to install Gimp.
It fails to download, and then Gimp is not visible in Pupget any more!
So I download it from http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... ackages-1/
And simply install it as alien package in pupget.

That's it!
For the long awaited first KDE-Puppy some acceptable small inconveniencies.
Hard to deal with for newbees, but I hope my small report may help them to get everything working.
The result is the fastest KDE you ever have seen! Great

Also Abiword runs without further libs.

Many Thanks to Kenny and Bombayrockers

Mark

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kde-3.5.0 puppy iso downloads

kde-3.5.0 puppy iso downloads

Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow

ok

actually

yep

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