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mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 103 Location: Pelham, AL

There's an updated version (3.8.5) of QtWeb out:

http://qtweb.net/download.html

Would love to have a new .pet for this! Many thanks!

musher0 · Posted: Sun 15 Sep 2013, 09:17 Post subject:

Hello, mechmike.

You don't need a pet. Simple as pie:

Simply download the zip archive,
unzip it, say, under /opt,
make it executable, and that's it.

Optional:
drag the QtWeb executable in /opt as a link to ~/my-applications/bin
make a QtWeb.desktop file in /usr/share/applications using the SeaMonkey.desktop file as a template.

The problem is elsewhere.
With what version of Puppy will you be using QtWeb?

In wary 5.5, for example, forget it, it's a no-go, because wary 5.5 is missing too many libraries that QtWeb requires to run.

Now if some Puppyist had the extreme patience on this beautiful Sunday
morning to go library hunting and create a supplemental pet package for
this new QtWeb... it would be nice. Smile

Maybe try this new QtWeb on other Puppy versions to see what gives?

BFN.

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 103 Location: Pelham, AL

I tried to make it work. I downloaded it, and followed the directions in BK's blog:

# unzip QtWeb-elf386.zip
# chmod 755 QtWeb
# ./QtWeb

The last command aborts, so your theory about missing dependencies definitely has some merit. I am no command line whiz by any means but am trying to learn as I go.

I tried it on Precise 5.7.1 plus on the previous Precise build. I have two USB drive installs of Puppy, plus a full install of 5.7.1 on a Dell Latitude 131L laptop.

The previous .pet (http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00329) worked pretty well.

cygnus_odile · Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Posts: 6 Location: Tokyo, Japan

I've found a pet of build-108, showing ver. as 3.8.4, but featured as same as version 3.8.5.

-- compiled from source of build 108 (Sep 11), on Puppy Linux 431JP2012.
-- Qt-library statically combined.
-- having same features as 3.8.5, e.g., Shift-JIS encoding supported.

pet url : http://insurance.tf-bank.net/50MB/dl/1379019111.pet

WebPage(Japanese): http://nnit.web.fc2.com/puppy/puppy_p16.htm

You can download pet and rename it, e.g., QtWeb-b108.pet.

perdido · Joined: 09 Dec 2013 Posts: 40

Thanks for the link, it runs fine in Puppy Precise 5.7.1

There is a problem with the Import Bookmarks menu in QtWeb 3.8.4 when using the menu File > Import Bookmarks

The import bookmarks dialog box does not see the file to be imported, in my case it was the bookmarks.html file I exported from Firefox. The dialog box looks in /root/ by default - so that is where I told Firefox to create the file named bookmarks.html

The solution to this was to manually type in the file name (mine was named bookmarks.html ) into the "File name:" window of the "Open File" dialog box, then hit <Enter> on your keyboard. It then imports the bookmarks file into the QtWeb bookmarks.