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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Hope I am not derailing. In another part of teh forum a guy did ask about a lupu related question. He claimed that he had tried to installed Thunar from the PPM.

I am in Snow now so will not take time to look at the ppm.

But are there two kinds of Thunar? One being a pet made by devs of Lupu or supporters of puppy and lupu and them uploading it to the PPM and then another way to reach through the PPM the official Ubuntu repo that have unprepared Thunar that only works after one made it safe for Lupu to use?

The version he tried failed when he installed it.

Should he make a bug report here or just trust that it is a hit and miss thing to use the Lupu repo?

I find it most likely he found the orginal Thunar made for Ubuntu and that one need to make a pet to install it properly?

Am I right or wrong? I never used Thunar but trust it is a bit like Rox?

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Just used the PPM to install Thunar in 253...no problem at all.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Yes good, much appreciated, in case he fail to find this post I link to it in his thread. he could try it out on his set up then Thanks

he thread my entry
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=502756#502756

Lobster · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 17:32 Post subject:

Barrys Transmission pet that he said should work on other Puppys, did briefly, then stopped.
So I went back to the one in Lucid.

Was trying to play a movie full screen in avi fomat with subtitles.
No luck with Gnome mplayer (film jerky)
or VLC (no subtitles)
Quite shocked as normally between these two can play most things . . .

In the end watched it in Ubuntu 10:10 in Gnome mplayer which I had on the system.

just reporting back - not sure of solutions
I should imagine Ubuntu has more of the Gnome libraries . . .

Lucview - tried with 3 logitech webcams - nothing
Does it do anything for anyone?

bigpup · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 17:46 Post subject:

My understanding about the Ubuntu repositories in PPM.
The programs can be downloaded and used.
One very big and important thing
When you download one:
Prior to the actual download, you have the option to check for needed dependency files.
If any are found, they will be added to the download. So, you could see the program you picked and a long list of other files, that will also be downloaded.
These files must be downloaded for the program to work.
In the Lucid Puppy Repository:
All the pets are setup for Lucid Puppy and have everything they need.
The stuff in the Lucid Puppy repository is sometimes newer and for sure more stable.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

bigpup that is important to realize will be interesting to know if he knew that when he did teh thunar install. I go to bed now. I wrote about it and linked here in his trhead

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1225 Location: wales

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

xfe-1.32.2-i686.pet (X File Explorer) is a file manager similar to
midnight commander.
fox-1.6.43-i686.pet must be installed also or xfe won't run.

I had to delete the kde icon theme to keep the xfe-1.32.2-i686.pet
under the 2mb size limit for uploading to the forum.
If you want the kde icon theme move kdetheme.tar.gz to /usr/share/xfe/icons
and unpack it there.

I made these pets in 252 and tested them in 253.

Tasgarth · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 197 Location: France, Besancon

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 1487 Location: France

xfe_staticFOX-1.32.1-i486-fr.pet was only 750 ko.

ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/toutou/pet_packages-4fr/431/xfe_staticFOX-1.32.1-i486-fr.pet

Run ok with 253

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