I love my puppy 4.2 installation but I found that some more modern software I like required a newer glibc version.
Nexuiz, alien arena and Xaos are my favourite programs that fit this catagory. I have broken my puppy more than a few times attempting to upgrade my glibc but I have tried the following solution a few times now with great success. Note I have tried this with Puppy 4.2 and Puppeee RC7 (based on 431) and it worked flawlessly.
Only need 2 files. One is dpkg .pet (most of you probably already have this) and the libc6 2.11.deb ubuntu package. You can get them here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... .14.20.pet
http://64.12.96.232/pool/main/e/eglibc/ ... 1_i386.deb
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Simply install the dpkg pet by clicking on it, then in the directory you have download the libc6 .deb file, open a terminal and type the following:
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dpkg-deb -x libc6_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1_i386 /
I have been using Lupu Puppy 5 for a while now simply because older puppies didn't have the glibc version i needed to run my programs, now with this solution i can use my 4.2 for everything, yay!
sickgut