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

On Jun 9, 5:39*pm, ray wrote:

Hey NoBalls - there is a reason that Linux distributions have
'repositories' and 'package managers'. This ain't MS - it's easy.

well if it's so fucing easy why don't you tell me (not details but big
picture) how to do it?

"thanks in advance" (I know I won't be hearing from you again, because
it's sooo easy, right?)

RL

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:41:25 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 9, 5:39Â*pm, ray wrote:

Hey NoBalls - there is a reason that Linux distributions have
'repositories' and 'package managers'. This ain't MS - it's easy.

well if it's so fucing easy why don't you tell me (not details but big
picture) how to do it?

"thanks in advance" (I know I won't be hearing from you again, because
it's sooo easy, right?)

RL

I did.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:41:25 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 9, 5:39Â*pm, ray wrote:

Hey NoBalls - there is a reason that Linux distributions have
'repositories' and 'package managers'. This ain't MS - it's easy.

well if it's so fucing easy why don't you tell me (not details but big
picture) how to do it?

"thanks in advance" (I know I won't be hearing from you again, because
it's sooo easy, right?)

RL


Ray seems to have a issue with helping people to learn that the Windoze
way is not the only way.
most linux distributions have some form of "Package Manager" these enable
packages to be downloaded & installed directly from a "Repository" on the
internet.
if a package is not available in the repository for your distro then an
installation file can usually be found in the correct format for your
distro.

Debian based distros use apt-get as a package manager & .deb files for
instalation

Red hat (& fedora) use yum as a package manager & the RPM format for
packages

DSL uses its own form of package management & J G Miller has already
given you a link to its documentation page http://www.damnsmalllinux.ORG/
wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions

I would suggest that before trying to create an extreme installation
( & squeezing an os into limited hardware is extreme) you might find it
beneficial to learn on a more mainstream distro with more up-to date
hardware first
--
fortune -s linux

On Jun 10, 11:34*pm, Alister Ware wrote:

DSL uses its own form of package management & J G Miller has already
given you a link to its documentation page http://www.damnsmalllinux.ORG/
wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions

I looked at this link and could not find anything. Can you please
tell me where info on how to install is for DSL? Is it here? Which
command he http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html

Where do you put the binary executables (assuming I download something
already compiled)?


I would suggest that before trying to create an extreme installation
( & squeezing an os into limited hardware is extreme) you might find it
beneficial to learn on a more mainstream distro with more up-to date
hardware first
--

No, please help me with what I have. The pot of gold is always on the
other side of the rainbow, I know. Windows is the same way (each new
release is progressively better); but the sign of a good OS is if it
works now, with what I got.

Please help.

RL

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:51:45 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 10, 11:34Â*pm, Alister Ware wrote:

DSL uses its own form of package management & J G Miller has already
given you a link to its documentation page
http://www.damnsmalllinux.ORG/
wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions

I looked at this link and could not find anything.

Not even the second paragraph section titled

*Installing From A MyDSL Repository*


Which part of the instructions on that page, did you not understand?

QUOTE

Installing From A MyDSL Repository

The way to do this is through the use of the
MyDSL Extension Browser.

This tool is available from a desktop icon, from the desktop menu

under Apps - Tools

or by using the command

mydslPanel.lua

(or the new one: mydslBrowser.lua).

Steps:

Make sure you are logged in as user dsl

Open the MyDSL Extension Browser

Select the category[1] you want to browse

Select the package you want.

An Info box will appear (please read the info file[2] of each
package you select)

Press the Download button

The extension will be automatically downloaded to the directory specified
in .mydsl_dir (default is /tmp), checked for corruption, and then installed.

If the package includes a desktop icon and/or menu item, those will also
be added automatically.

UNQUOTE

And does not the attentive reader find it "odd" that RayLopez99
did not respond to my posting, but only now complains that he cannot
find the details on the provided link which tells him exactly what
he needs to do to install the software when somebody else points
out that his plea for help has already been answered in another posting?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:51:45 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 10, 11:34Â*pm, Alister Ware wrote:

DSL uses its own form of package management & J G Miller has already
given you a link to its documentation page
http://www.damnsmalllinux.ORG/
wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions

I looked at this link and could not find anything. Can you please tell
me where info on how to install is for DSL? Is it here? Which command
he http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html

Where do you put the binary executables (assuming I download something
already compiled)?

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.

If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several choices.
Generally, you do not download a precompiled executable - but if you do,
you can put it anywhere you like. In order to not have to specify it's
location, put it somewhere in your PATH. Good places would be: /bin, /usr/
bin or /yourhome/bin. If you download the source, there will be
instructions: often you do ./configure followed by make and finally 'make
install' - which completes the install and puts the executable where you
can use it.



I would suggest that before trying to create an extreme installation (
& squeezing an os into limited hardware is extreme) you might find it
beneficial to learn on a more mainstream distro with more up-to date
hardware first
--

No, please help me with what I have. The pot of gold is always on the
other side of the rainbow, I know. Windows is the same way (each new
release is progressively better); but the sign of a good OS is if it
works now, with what I got.

OK, so read the DSL documentation.



Please help.

RL

RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 9, 5:39*pm, ray wrote:

Hey NoBalls - there is a reason that Linux distributions have
'repositories' and 'package managers'. This ain't MS - it's easy.

well if it's so fucing easy why don't you tell me (not details but big
picture) how to do it?


www.google.com/linux is your friend


"thanks in advance" (I know I won't be hearing from you again, because
it's sooo easy, right?)

RL

ray wrote:

[putolin]


If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several choices.
Generally, you do not download a precompiled executable - but if you do,
you can put it anywhere you like. In order to not have to specify it's
location, put it somewhere in your PATH. Good places would be: /bin, /usr/
bin

Yes that would be a great place for a precompiled trojan.

On Jun 11, 12:30*am, J G Miller wrote:


And does not the attentive reader find it "odd" that RayLopez99
did not respond to my posting, but only now complains that he cannot
find the details on the provided link which tells him exactly what
he needs to do to install the software when somebody else points
out that his plea for help has already been answered in another posting?

Shutup. This is the fabled "Linux community"? A bunch of whiners,
not winners.

The confusion was because of YOUR truncated link. The correct link
is: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/i...DSL_Extensions

Please make a note of it.

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

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