Here is an update of essential Linux utilities, freshly compiled on
PuppyPrecise-5.4.3, so they should work on all recent Puppies.
The version number is indicated as suffix to all the utilities, to avoid any
squishing of what you may already have on your Pup.
I tried to organize them as they are organized in Puppy. That said, I
would suggest that you unpack them only, somewhere safe -- NOT double
click to install them.
Then if you need to update one utility, rename the original in its original
place with ".old" as suffix, COPY the more recent utility from the directory
you just made, and make a link using the regular name.
Example using blkid:
- - go to /sbin
- rename the existing blkid to blkid.old
- copy blkid-2.27 from the util-linux package to /sbin/
- in /sbin, link blkid-2.27 to blkid
- copy all necessary libraries for blkid from /lib and /usr/lib in your
util-linux-2.27 directory to similar directories /lib and /usr/lib in your Puppy.
- Done!
utilities, and they work perfectly well, or any other argument. As a power
user, I have discovered that the utilities included in Puppy do work well,
but sometimes they have been compiled as restricted or the busybox
ones are used, and you're out of luck if you need the full power of utility
x or y in a script.
Or they do not exist in Puppy. Case in point: lscpu or lsblkid do a very
fine job of listing cpu features and partition organization, respectively.
These simple, clear and efficient utilities save you from writing some bash
lines because they already exist. But oops, they can't be found in Puppy,
sorry -- before now.
In any case, I don't want to start an argument with anyone. I for one,
have found some of them useful. Just use these essential utilities as you
see fit, and be responsible about it.
coreutils-8.24.pet -- Available from:
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code ... q3SLLCSAFk --
Source : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.tar.xz
2015-07-03
util-linux-2.27.pet -- Available from:
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code ... EUMRuiVXik --
Source : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/ut ... .27.tar.xz
As announced yesterday (Sept. 7, 2015) on DistroWatch.
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Edit, Sept. 11: If you prefer to download these sets as regular zip archives, please
go down to this post. Thanks
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Also, since this is the first time that I'm using my pcloud account to
distribute my compilations, your feedback will be most welcome
concerning accessibility of the files. Many thanks in advance.
So enjoy these utilities, but carefully!
BFN.
musher0