Hello everybody, Running DSL on Compaq Presario 1200 with 60 MB RAM, Pentium III, 5GB HD. I installed picasa, from google using dpkg -i command. It worked, [with command /usr/bin/picasa] though it gave a warning that the disk space is too low. Why? And can I do something about it? I tried to make a .dsl out of it using deb2dsl command. It did create a Picasa.dsl byt this extention does not work. Please advice. Cheers60mb isn't very much for adding the *.dsl type of extension or deb packages, unless you have a traditional harddrive install or the application is very small. The typical DSL install or liveCD puts all installed files into RAM. Since you already have dpkg (and likely gnu-utils) you have even less ram to work with for additional programs.
You will probably have better luck in making unc or uci packages, as they can be mounted from a permanent disk rather than installed into RAM.thanks, can i install .deb programs to my hard drive? how? and, i know deb2dsl is there a deb2unc ?
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can i install .deb programs to my hard drive?
You would probably need to install DSL to a harddrive first. This means a decompressed, fully writable (and fully destructible) system rather than liveCD/frugal/embedded.
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is there a deb2unc ?
Probably, but I don't know for sure. There is at least a dsl to unc, though I can't say specifically where to find it (in these forums somewhere). It would be a trivial matter to extend deb2dsl to make unc files instead.dsl2unc.sh is included in DSL. So if you have created a .dsl version, you might to give it a try.
By the way, does a lightweight photo management application exist? I'm looking for an application which would allow me to tag and rate pictures, add comments/captions and perhaps do basic transformations (resize, cropping, rotate ...). Suggestions are welcome.Next Page...
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