Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 - Updated ISO Version 005 - APR 05 2012

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Nightingale with SHOUTcast & Last.fm --Songbird Clone

#1846 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,

If you miss SHOUTCast and Last.fm radio, you might want to try Nightingale. Instructions and pet to run it from /mnt/home found here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 568#626568

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#1847 Post by playdayz »

mikeslr, Nightingale ran for me but "Failed to load Shoutcast streams" in both 3HD and LupuPlus. There must be something we are overlooking.

People can of course go directly to shoutcast.com, but that is just one feature of Nightingale.

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Flashvideoreplacer

Earthray found this. It replaces flashplayer with gnome-mplayer (or other player at your choice). Anyone having trouble with youtube videos might want to try it. It is working for me.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 731#625731

Plus, many youtube videos will now automatically play with html5 if flashplayer is not installed. Flashvideoreplacer has an option to prefer html5.

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Baconrecorder 2.8

#1849 Post by don570 »

Baconrecorder 2.8 has an improved interface for 480 pixel height

HERE

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#1850 Post by don570 »

A forum member announced audacity 2.0 working

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78257

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#1851 Post by ilanrab »

greengeek wrote:
l2ulinux wrote: Did you run the Grub4Dos bootloader config?
No, I didn't try that. Is it necessary to use Grub or Grub4Dos for a usb boot? I thought that was only for HDD install?
Each of the flash installers has its own issues. After struggling with the installers for many months, I discovered that Grub4Dos worked, for me, all the time (with 5.2.x).
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#1852 Post by greengeek »

ilanrab wrote:Each of the flash installers has its own issues. After struggling with the installers for many months, I discovered that Grub4Dos worked, for me, all the time (with 5.2.x).
Thanks ilan, I think I will have to start using Grub4Dos as several people have now suggested it.

However, I am concerned that many newcomers may still try to use the universal installers and get into the same problems I did - then walk away from Puppy. maybe all we need is a good, easy tutorial that shows people like me how to use Grub4Dos just for one specific function - how to make a bootable usb stick containing a recent version of Puppy, so that we can leave our Windows HDD installation untouched. That way we can boot from HDD if we need windows, or put the usb stick in if we want to use Puppy.

Would you have time to list the steps you would use to create such a usb stick? (eg: which step comes first - Gparted, or syslinux, or fdisk or cfdisk or Grub4Dos???). It seems easy for people who have worked on such problems for weeks and months and developed their own methods, but not so clear for newcomers who are trying to follow basic steps.

I would like to find a foolproof method that works with a typical brand new FAT32 stick straight off the shop shelf.

Many thanks if you have time to list your method.

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the universal installer and...

#1853 Post by shinobar »

greengeek wrote:I am concerned that many newcomers may still try to use the universal installers and get into the same problems I did
Good point, greengeek.
I think the univarsal installer is the root who confuses newcommers.
The 431JP returns 2012 has Frugalinstaller for this reason.
The bootflash is a bit better than the univarsal installer.

The frugalinstaller is simple and easy. The bootflash is more and the univarsal installer is the most sophisticated and confusing.
Therefore, the 431JP2012 has 3 installers... :(
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Re: the universal installer and...

#1854 Post by greengeek »

shinobar wrote:I think the univarsal installer is the root who confuses newcommers.
The 431JP returns 2012 has Frugalinstaller for this reason
Yes, now I can understand why you made the FrugalInstaller (although I have not tried it yet). We need something similar that will be able to run on new puppies: - "Puppy5xx USBInstaller".

I am still investigating my usb boot problems - I really would like to learn exactly why my problems are occurring. When I know enough I will try to write a tutorial. I wish I could write an installer...but no chance of that. Still so much to learn.

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Puppy_on_Flash a video tutorial

#1855 Post by shinobar »

Downloads for Puppy Linux [url]http://shino.pos.to/linux/downloads.html[/url]

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Nightingale -- Added 3-Headed-Dog & LupuPlus Exclusion

#1856 Post by mikeslr »

Hi Playdaz,

I had the same result as you did with Three-Headed-Dog and LupuPlus. So I've noted that on its thread.
It's a nice app if it works.(':lol:'). When it works, it provides a complete music manager. But if SHOUTcast fails then it provides nothing not already available using pmusic.

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#1857 Post by Aitch »

Has anyone else noticed a huge hit on their free space using flashreplacer?
Does anyone have a fix, as while watching a few youtubes, my browser froze locking the PC necessitating a forced poweroff, as I couldn't get any access to regain control

I've added another 1Gb to my savefile, which is now a huge 4.7Gb with only 1.1Gb free!
btw I'm using Slacko, with Aurora 7.01, in case it makes any difference, and it crashes often with latest Flashplayer

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#1858 Post by 666philb »

Aitch wrote:Has anyone else noticed a huge hit on their free space using flashreplacer?
Does anyone have a fix, as while watching a few youtubes, my browser froze locking the PC necessitating a forced poweroff, as I couldn't get any access to regain control

I've added another 1Gb to my savefile, which is now a huge 4.7Gb with only 1.1Gb free!
btw I'm using Slacko, with Aurora 7.01, in case it makes any difference, and it crashes often with latest Flashplayer

Aitch :)


hi aitch

you may want to move the gnome-mplayer cache /root/.cache/.gnome-mplayer. (it's hidden so press the eye) onto your harddrive, then symlink it back.
alternatively, i think that you can set the cache size in the gnome-mplayer options.
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Re: Puppy_on_Flash a video tutorial

#1859 Post by bigpup »

shinobar wrote:A video tutorial by smokey:
http://www.smokey01.com/videos/Puppy_on_Flash.mpeg
Well, to answer the question.
When is the Gecko-mplayer plugin ever used?
Using Firefox 12 browser, this video played using the Gecko-mplayer plugin.
(It actually causes Gnome-Mplayer to play the video)

In Firefox preferences->Applications
mpeg files is set to use mplayerplug-in is now Gecko-mediaplayer.
Basically what this does is Gecko-Mplayer plugin makes the video stream to the Gnome Mplayer.

If I set mpeg files to use Gnome Mplayer the video would download completely and then play. No streaming.
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Re: Puppy_on_Flash a video tutorial

#1860 Post by jim3630 »

shinobar wrote:A video tutorial by smokey:
http://www.smokey01.com/videos/Puppy_on_Flash.mpeg
this shows how to USB intall on new puppies. very good step by step.

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#1861 Post by Sylvander »

Pity...
But the sound is so low-volume I can hardly hear it.

And so I won't post a link to it in my Puppy thread at the PC-Guide forums. :(

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#1862 Post by playdayz »

Nightingale / Songbird

There is a pet of Songbird in the Lucid repo in PPM that does play shoutcast streams. I guess Songbird quit making a Linux version so Nightingale took that over.

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... -Lucid.pet

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Pinta 1.0

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/Pinta-1.0-Lucid.pet

For quick fixes of images and photos in my production environment I often use Paint.net. This program Pinta is extremely similar. i don't think it is more capable than mtPaint--and it is much bigger--but it is nicely usable. It is big because it is based on a Portable Linux App because it requires Mono to compile and that is a big mess as far as I m concerned.
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Help in GIMP

#1863 Post by playdayz »

Help in GIMP

Shinobar below links to GIMP 2.6.11 and below that is a 2.6.12 at the bottom of the page.

Concerning GIMP 2.8. There is a version for Precise. But......
A PPA is available for installing GIMP 2.8 in Ubuntu Precise and Oneiric. But notice what is currently stated on its page, specifically regarding Oneiric:

This PPA could break your installed OS. There are dependency issues for Oneiric Ocelot (11.10). Only use it if you know what you do! There should be no problems in Precise Pangolin (12.04).
http://www.tuxgarage.com/2012/05/instal ... eiric.html
Unfortunately, as of now, there is no easy way to install GIMP 2.8 in older versions of Ubuntu. Mainly because GIMP 2.8 depends on many new underlying libraries which can't be found in the repositories of those older Ubuntu versions. Thus, you would first need to compile those libraries and then go for compiling GIMP itself, and that would obviously require a lot of work. However, it is theoretically possible if some of the enthusiasts decides to port GIMP 2.8 to those older versions of Ubuntu.
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Re: Help in GIMP

#1864 Post by kevin bowers »

playdayz wrote:Help in GIMP

This pet (gvfs_backends) will enable the Help in GIMP in the 005 versions of Lucid and 3HD (in which the Help in other programs is working). AFAIK that is all it will do, enable the Help in GIMP. The version of GIMP used must have the Help present--this sfs does http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... -Lucid.sfs Also the 2.6.10 pets in PPM--you need both because the Help is in a separate pet.
I don't understand. I just installed LupuPlusLibre528.005-2 and the GIMP 2.6.10 .pets, program and help, and the help works fine without this gvfs-backends .pet. Huh?

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#1865 Post by bigpup »

Installed Seamonkey 2.8 from Quickpet.
Did an internal update to 2.9.1 by Help->Check for Updates.
Seems to have updated OK.
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