(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hi All,

I've noticed many of the programs one downloads are in a .tar.bz2 or some other zipped format. Many instructions say to use the terminal. In these instructions there is a "make" command, which it seems Bash does not support. Is there a similiar command or is an area Puppy's version of Bash is lacking.

Thanks,

make is part of a comile environment

puppy does not come with this

you need to download and install devx_412.sfs [or your version-appropriate]

check the forum, lots of discussion on this

once it's going, you can make away!

Thanks Bugman,

I downloaded the devx_412.sfs from here to the / directory, as per one discussion thread I read.

I found the following steps from here :

2. Click on the devx_xxx.sfs in a ROX-Filer window to mount it.
3. Open a terminal in the mounted directory.
6. # cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/hda2/
7. # sync
8. Close the terminal.
9. Click on the devx_xxx.sfs file to unmount it

I got an error for line 6 and changed it to
cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/home/
and all went well.

Thanks again