Okay Mark, I will take you up on your kind offer of assistance in getting GE installed and running in Muppy 008.1

I managed to get it downloaded as a .bin file through Firefox but was unable to go any further.

Thanks - retry3

FWIW - I have the 2Gb TD and just put it in and booted Muppy 008.1 and MUT said the drive was formatted vfat. This was a first boot for Muppy so I made a 1Gb partition for the mys_save file as per instructions and saved to it when I shut down. Rebooted fine with all the settings I had put in except ...

Many thanks MU-

I downloaded twice and made 3 coasters but I now have Muppy 008.1 up and running. Will try Google Earth after I sort out my email problems. Will advise.

I think your Muppy is the way to go with Puppy and I am going to give a try as the main system.

Regards - retry3

Followed PG's advice and MU's suggestions in another thread and dowloaded and installed these packages from PETget: xorg_OPENGL-7.2 xorg_DRI_MODULES-7.2 sdl-1.2.11: Simple Direct Media Layer Library GooglEarth-bigfont The sdl pkg said I was missing dependencies of libvga.so.1 in five folders. I have...

Thanks Pizzagood - Yes, I am running Xorg and have read page after page of search results. Your welcome reply sort of fits in with the other things I've read and I am glad to see you recommend a Pet pkg; I can handle that. You have made things a little clearer to me so I will thrash around with the ...

After the dialog box says it is installed and I click the Start button, the Google Earth welcome page, or at least a part of it, briefly flashes once or twice and then an Error message comes up. The same thing happens when I try starting using the console even tho I don't know what I am doing with a...

Please note my humble objection to the inclusion and content of the political propaganda that is polluting this thread.

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Thanks Barry and Pizzasgood for the enlightenment.

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On BK's developers blog he refers to adding an official PET packages"mtPaint 3.20" and "Openbox" and Obconf" and "updating Pburn to v 0.2.0" just in the last few days. All I can find is the referenced sourceforge site for mtPaint and not any Pet packages. Is he ref...

Thanks to trapster, Flash and john biles for their kind responses and help. I was taken out of action in more ways than one shortly after my post and am just now back - hence the tardy "thank yous". trapster - I tried the MUT before and after but it just doesnt see the camera in any way. W...

The Gtkam program does not work in Puppy 2.14 as most know the hard way. Please either include or have as add-on a reliable way of getting and storing the photos so they can be worked on.
Thanks - Retry3