JMW4th wrote:DMcCunney wrote:JMW4th wrote:does Java not work? I installed the Pet package from the Wiki, but it does not seem to be working at all. am I missing something?
Java ought to work fine. It does here. Among other things, I can successfully run IBM's Eclipse programming environment, which is
written in Java.
Tell us what apparently isn't working?
I think maybe it is because i am using google chrome.
What happens if you try SeaMonkey or Firefox?
I have Google Chrome on my desktop and it works fine, but the Linux version is still too much of a work in progress, and I prefer Firefox in any case.
but speaking of...I was under the impression that with Puppy 4.3.1 that you could use the Package Manager to install files from other distros like Debian/Ubuntu?
however, whenever I try to do this, the Package successfully installs, but for some reason I can't use it. I can't find it on my menus, and then when I do find it somehow...when I click on it nothing happens. no "failure" warning or anything. no install errors.
Well, the package manager
says it installed. It needs better error checking routines. I've seen it say it installed something (from a tgz file) when in fact it didn't. It didn't see errors and reported success, but it likely wasn't looking at enough possible failure conditions.
To see what's going on, I'd open a terminal window, navigate to the location where the executable was placed, and invoke it from the command line as ./<whatever>. The likely problem is missing dependencies - one or more libraries the app needs to work aren't present on Puppy.
The Ubuntu package manger is good about this: when you select a package from a repository, it analyzes dependencies and downloads not only the application, but anything it needs you don't already have. Puppy is only beginning to do any sort of dependency management.
I've installed from DEB files, but I normally just open the DEB archive, and extract the data.tgz file from it, then extract the contents of that to /. The data.tgz file will contain the binaries and other things required by the app, and doing an extract with full paths will put things in the desired places.
This will not update the Puppy menu structure (which I mostly don't care about because the programs I'm installing are things that wouldn't have one, like console apps), and there's no guarantee the app will run - I may have missing dependencies and have to hunt down libraries.
What DEB files were you interested in?
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Dennis
