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As I’ve mentioned in other threads, I frequently test, explore and --of course-- use various Puppies and derivatives. All my Puppies are Frugal Installs, and to make my life simple the directories into which all are installed are on the same partition. Originally, that made it easy to access the same SFSes. But thanks to Playdaz discussion of “Program Folders

can you post clearer instructions please. (lucid 5.28)

4 weeks, day after day trying to install the 4 lamp packages to Puppy Lucid 5.28. And still no joy.

Following your instructions, I download the tar to /home/mnt.

type tar -xzwf xampp-linux-1.8.0.tar.gz

around 50 lines or more of positive unpacking, then:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: unexpected EOF in archive
tar: unexpected EOF in archives
Error is not recoverable: exiting now

After 160 frustrated hours, I am almost done with Linux!

I follow the instructions at Apachefriends, also using the run installer, and again, failures ( although different!)

Tried just with this? Are you running out of space in the partition?

You are my hero.

Dont know why the x makes such a difference, maybe a quick explanation!

But its working fine.


Thanks

Simon

So thrilled, now I just have to remove 1GB of aborted installation files.

Sorry it wasnt working fine at all.. I simply saw icons added to the menu screen and satisfied with progress I went to bed.

Now I am testing and well you guessed it.

So before installing cacti, I thought I would study up a bit on starting Xampp.

and it says:

oh and by the way, contrary to instructions http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xam ... html#start

the only way I can see to start the packages is /opt/lampp/xampp start NOT lampp start (which does not exist)

XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail.
httpd: Syntax error on line 31 of /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf: Server Root must be a valid directory
XAMPP: Starting MySQL....ok
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...fail
Contents of "/opt/lampp/var/proftpd/start,err":
puppypc proftp[31756]: Fatal: <Directory>: relative path not allowed in non-<Anonymous> sections on line 29 of '/opt/lampp/etc/proftpd.conf'


any thoughts?

wirwav wrote:any thoughts?

X is not L
and Xampp is not lampp.

(and Windows is not linux)

Troll, go and annoy someone else!

oh.

Didnt make any further progress, only backwards

so searched any removed all words and directories apache.

Trying re-install Xampp again.. But now worse than berfore, unable to unpack using tar -zxf xxx.tar.gz

Stopping again at:

PostPosted: Yesterday, at 07:40 Post subject:
can you post clearer instructions please. (lucid 5.2Cool

4 weeks, day after day trying to install the 4 lamp packages to Puppy Lucid 5.28. And still no joy.

Following your instructions, I download the tar to /home/mnt.

type tar -xzwf xampp-linux-1.8.0.tar.gz

around 50 lines or more of positive unpacking, then:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: unexpected EOF in archive
tar: unexpected EOF in archives
Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Hold on...

First, be sure of downloaded the Linux package. Then, how is your puppy installion?

It sounds like your /home/ is in a partition that may be full or may not be in a Linux filesystem, which is really important for MySQL to -even- start running.

Note aside, installing lampp is not hard (just unpack) and it should not be, so if it is, maybe the problem is not on it.

Use to decompress and check (report us) the size of the file you got packed, the unpacked size and if possible the md5sums.

Hi.

No it just simply wont unpack anymore beyond that same point.

Yesterday after your advice, it silently unpacked all the way.

Oddly, you mentioned mysql, well that was the only 1 of the 3 packages that said it was ok and running.

The SSD is probably in a mess from failed installs..

I managed to install ntop and then dude under wine environment.. It may be safer and quicker for me to re-install lupu 5.28 and start at the begining, with what appears to be the most troubling.

If I take it back to a fresh install.. what dependencies are needed to unpack.

My guess Gcc and others?