after trying ppm mod, and downloading libstardust (which isnt a binary ".so" library, but a collection of scripts-- which is fine) i noticed that petget has this line for the shbang:
#!/bin/sh
this AND NOTHING ELSE is actually the culprit here-- /bin/sh isnt /bin/sh... well thats a STANDARD unknown (sh could be lots of things... except when each distro has its own standard)
but i tried copying /bin/sh from puppy (dont worry, i have the entire sfs hierarchy handy) to /bin/pupsh just in case it was a "specially compiled" busybox sh with some exotic patch.
then i tried /bin/pupsh --version ...
SO! /bin/sh is actually /bin/bash
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ok, so i run sed -i "s/bin\/sh/bin\/bash/g" /usr/sbin/petget # and what do you think happens then? see attachment.
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(note, if there is no reason not to, please consider changing the shbang in petget to /bin/bash -- it seems it will not actually work with any version of /bin/sh that is not a link to /bin/bash)
i still hold that the gtkdialog thread was extremely helpful. the amount of time i wasted on that avenue couldve been MUCH greater without it-- despite the fact that gtkdialog was not even the issue! it actually helped me rule out gtkdialog as the issue much faster.