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AndyLowe · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

I downloaded Firefox 2.0 but could not get it installed.
i could unzip it by using
tar zxvf firefox2.0-tar.gz
but when i tried to use

cd firefox
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

etc. It would not work. It appeared that DSL-N does not provide make. Any help would be appreciated.

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Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

You can download a .deb package (www.debian.org) for make and install it after you load dsl-dpkg.dsl using "dpkg -i package-name.deb"

You can get apt-get working in DSL-N by following the details in the "apt-g"post and then "apt-get install make"

I also think the gnu-utils.dsl package contains make.

AndyLowe · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

[quote="Juanito"]You can download a .deb package (www.debian.org) for make and install it after you load dsl-dpkg.dsl using "dpkg -i package-name.deb"

You can get apt-get working in DSL-N by following the details in the "apt-g"post and then "apt-get install make"

I also think the gnu-utils.dsl package contains make.[/quote]

I'm a newbie. Would you mind to explain step by step?
Fyi, I was at a loss was to exactly which Debian package should I dpkg.
Also, how to load dsl-dpkg.dsl?
The next portion about getting apt-get to work seemed more understandable.
Thanks a lot.

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

OK, so go to "http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages" and enter "make" in the search box and change the package type to "oldstable" - this will give you a list of packages with make in their name, you need the one called "make".

The problem with this approach is that "make" depends on the packages "fileutils" and "libc6" which you will also have to download, but go ahead anyway.

Next you have two choices, either:

1. Download the package dsl-dpkg.dsl from the DSL repository and then use the "myDSL" icon and the button "Load local myDSL extension" to navigate to dsl-dpkg.dsl and load it.

or

2. Open a terminal window and type "dpkg-restore"

Now that dpkg is on your system, type the following in a terminal window:

dpkg -i /path-to-download/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-download/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-download/make_3.79.1-14_i386.deb

If the above goes OK, you should have the "make" command available for use.

AndyLowe · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

I downloaded the debian files. Thanks.

Then, dsl-dpkg.dsl was nowhere.

According to this:

dsl-dpkg.dsl was taken out. What then?

also, i don't have the dpkg-restore file.

Thanks for the help.

AndyLowe · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

[quote="Juanito"]
Next you have two choices, either:

1. Download the package dsl-dpkg.dsl from the DSL repository and then use the "myDSL" icon and the button "Load local myDSL extension" to navigate to dsl-dpkg.dsl and load it.

[/quote]

I understand now: DSL-N is different from DSL. I installed the former, which is said to be incompatible with dpkg and gnu.

Only DSL comes with dpkg and gnu support.

I'm switching to DSL. Thanks very much.

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

I got dsl-dpkg.dsl from the DSL repository but it works fine in DSL-N, gnu-utils.dsl also seems to work.

I'm kind of surprised that dpkg-restore didn't work, it works for me in DSL-N.

I use both DSL and DSL-N - I guess DSL would be better on an old machine, but DSL-N is useful if you want to use bluetooth, infrared, laptop power saving utilities, etc

RayRoko · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 4

Hey guys, check out my post on how to update gnu-utils.dsl to fit the 2.6 kernel better: last post [url=http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/f/viewtopic.php?t=311] here[/url]

l4tran · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

Hello all,

I am also a newbie. What I need to do is get my wireless usb adapter to work with DSL-N or DSL. The adapter I have is called Engenius model EUB-862. I understand there is no official linux driver for this adapter, but searching on the net reviewed that it can work with NDISWRAPPER.

I did a harddrive install of DSL-N and discovered ndiswrapper is already present, great. Now I have downloaded windows driver for the adapter, however the driver is compressed using rar. From here I downloaded linuxrar.gz.tar, but 'make' does not work which eventually brought me to this thread.

I have download both dsl-dpkg.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl. In MyDSL I have loaded both files without errors. However dpkg-restore and dpkg -i does not work. "command not found"

Is there another way to get the 'make' command to work?

Thanks all.