Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Need morehelp pls

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:43:19 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 11, 12:30Â*am, ray wrote:
I don't understand why you insist on making things more complicated
than they are.

First choice - your package manager for whatever distro you run - it
will fully install your choices.

OK, got that. Saw the link--I was on the wrong link (wrong page)
before.



If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several
choices.

Aha! This is confusing. I'm not logged in yet, but it would help if
you could please explain what it means "not in the repository". Is
there a recommended list of programs "in the repository" that you should
first check out before installing some third party software in Damn
Small Linux? I have no problems with that, BTW. It limits your choices
but it also is safer since you know the "repository" programs will work
with your distro.

RL

The repository is simply the collection of all programs you can install
directly from your package manager. If it's not in the repository (I'm
not familiar with DSL - but with Debian you can add additional
repositories) then the package manager does not know about it. There may
or may not be a way to use the package manager to install a package you
download that is not in the repositories - Debian can do that - again,
I'm not familiar with DSL - but I believe it is (or was) Debian based -
so it should. The Debian package manager also has a facility to search
for a particular application in the repositories - search by name; search
by description and name; several other more obscure searches as well.

This really isn't rocket science. Start up your package manager and work
with it.

On Jun 10, 11:18 pm, ray wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:43:19 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
On Jun 11, 12:30 am, ray wrote:
I don't understand why you insist on making things more complicated
than they are.

First choice - your package manager for whatever distro you run - it
will fully install your choices.

OK, got that. Saw the link--I was on the wrong link (wrong page)
before.

If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several
choices.

Aha! This is confusing. I'm not logged in yet, but it would help if
you could please explain what it means "not in the repository". Is
there a recommended list of programs "in the repository" that you should
first check out before installing some third party software in Damn
Small Linux? I have no problems with that, BTW. It limits your choices
but it also is safer since you know the "repository" programs will work
with your distro.

RL

The repository is simply the collection of all programs you can install
directly from your package manager. If it's not in the repository (I'm
not familiar with DSL - but with Debian you can add additional
repositories) then the package manager does not know about it. There may
or may not be a way to use the package manager to install a package you
download that is not in the repositories - Debian can do that - again,
I'm not familiar with DSL - but I believe it is (or was) Debian based -
so it should. The Debian package manager also has a facility to search
for a particular application in the repositories - search by name; search
by description and name; several other more obscure searches as well.

This really isn't rocket science. Start up your package manager and work
with it.


OK thanks for that information. I was able to find the D.S.L
repository, and it did have a bunch of programs "waiting to be
installed" so that makes sense.

BTW if you know how to make your left mouse button your right (D.S.L.
somehow switched them on me--it's hard now to remember your right
mouse button is really your left) pls let me know.

RL

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:40:19 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:



And thanks for your meager help. I'll find something else to ask about
later, assuming, as is always likely with hobbyware, I cannot figure out
how to install something. Already I'm unclear about what a 'repository'
of installations is, but I surmise it must be recommended software that
fits with the D.S.L. system requirements or some such. Proving that you
cannot, like in Windows, install any third-party software in your Linux
system. It has to be from an "approved" list. But I'll cross that
bridge when I complain about it.

RL

You can install whatever you like. If you want to install a
package that was compiled by your distro, us your distro's
version from your distro's package manager. If you want to
install a different version, or something that isn't in your
distro's repository, then you need to get the package from
someplace else. Perhaps you would get it from the author of the
software. For example; http://www.gimp.org/downloads for gimp,
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download.html for xaralx, or
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ for the flash plugin. Some
authors do not distribute compiled versions of their software.
In these cases you get the source code and compile it, following
it's instructions.

You can even execute (make run, not make dead) some of your windows
programs on your dsl system, with the 'wine' package.

On Jun 11, 3:35*pm, jellybean stonerfish
wrote:
You can even execute (make run, not make dead) some of your windows
programs on your dsl system, with the 'wine' package. *

Uh, Jellyfish thanks for the tips, but do you realize I'm running
D.S.L. on a Pentium I with very little RAM? Doubt I can use "wine" for
emulation of any sort.

RL

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:08:52 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

Can't stand it when Linux is shown to be second rate, can you
(im)Poster?

So why are you installing what you consider to be a second rate system?

On Jun 12, 1:09*am, J G Miller wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:08:52 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
Can't stand it when Linux is shown to be second rate, can you
(im)Poster?

So why are you installing what you consider to be a second rate system?

It's for somebody else that's a cheapskate (doesn't upgrade, throw
away anything, and doesn't want to pay for a year subscription to an
antivirus program like all competent Windows users use).

RL

RayLopez99 wrote:
On Jun 12, 1:09 am, J G Miller wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:08:52 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
Can't stand it when Linux is shown to be second rate, can you
(im)Poster?
So why are you installing what you consider to be a second rate system?

It's for somebody else that's a cheapskate (doesn't upgrade, throw
away anything, and doesn't want to pay for a year subscription to an
antivirus program like all competent Windows users use).

RL
No one with a clue buys anything to do with winblows
easy to run without rego and the best anti viri programs are free anyway
Personally I run virtual machines on my old xeon multi with good
performance

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:27:29 -0400, RayLopez99
wrote:

OK, live and learn. Repost since my first post got lost when Firefox
unexpectedly disappeared from my Linux screen. But not blaming Linux
(Damn Small Linux) since I have a Pentium II with 1 GB (!) hd and a
few sticks of RAM. Can't expect much.

I am using Puppy Linux 4.3.1 on a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. Dual boot
with w2k. It has a 233 PII,160mb ram,4gb drive(3gb/1gb partitions). I used
DSL before on it but puppy is much better-you should check it out. There
are a lot more updated apps available for it than DSL.
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On Jun 30, 5:17*pm, "What's in a Name?" wrote:

I am using Puppy Linux 4.3.1 on a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. Dual boot *
with w2k. It has a 233 PII,160mb ram,4gb drive(3gb/1gb partitions). I used *
DSL before on it but puppy is much better-you should check it out. There *
are a lot more updated apps available for it than DSL.
--

OK, thanks for that tip. Why version 4.3.1? Is this version made for
older machines, or can I download the latest Puppy distro?

RL

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:38:10 -0400, RayLopez99
wrote:

On Jun 30, 5:17 pm, "What's in a Name?" wrote:

I am using Puppy Linux 4.3.1 on a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. Dual boot
with w2k. It has a 233 PII,160mb ram,4gb drive(3gb/1gb partitions). I
used DSL before on it but puppy is much better-you should check it out.
There are a lot more updated apps available for it than DSL.
--

OK, thanks for that tip. Why version 4.3.1? Is this version made for
older machines, or can I download the latest Puppy distro?

RL
well the latest version did not detect my D-Link card-I posted this in the
puppy forums the other day. The only problem I had with 431 was that I had
to configure the sound manually. Seems that the older versions detect the
old hardware better. BTW-I just installed firefox 3.5.6 but it is a llitle
slow. Opera 10.10 works great.
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