Apps :: problem installing myDSL extension

FYI, if you were using the GNU "df" command, you could see your "I Node" usage by typing:

df -i

but the base DSL system comes with the BusyBox "df" command and the INode switch is not supported.

This puts you into a Catch-22 situation because you can't use "df" without the GNU Utilities, but you can't install the GNU Utilities because it will fail.

Doh!

I can attest to the fact that a 32MB machine will nearly run out of inodes after running mkwriteable.
This will happen when trying to install any .dsl extension.
So with only 32MB your options are to only use UCI, get more memory, or do a hard drive install.

Okay, thank you very much for the comments!

Actually I managed to get 16MB more memory just yesterday (now I have 48), but I have not yet tried to install any applications. I noticed that /ramdisk got a little bigger.

I'm constantly looking for a 64MB module (which would make 80MB RAM total), but it is quite hard to find old EDO SO-DIMM modules bigger than 16 or 32 megabytes. This old laptop has become something of an obsession for me to tweak...

Wish there was an UCI for Abiword, is that impossible?

With my massive memory upgrade (48 total) I tried to install abiword.dsl, and it actually installed, the ugly icon appeared on the desktop etc. But it didn't run. Splash screen blinked on the screen but then nothing.

For some reason I decided to install gnu-utils as well, and with those two .dsl-extensions Abiword was launched - but without any dialog texts, window headers, button captions etc., nothing!

Otherwise it seemed to work quite well. It even printed the vital accent characters without any porblem on top of certain vowels (something that doesn't happen in any other apps).

The problem with the missing texts seems to have something to do with GTK, because when I run Abiword on EmelFM, it prints a lot of error messages that refer to a directory that doesn't exist (/etc/gtk-2.0 or something).

And yes, the initial problem really was the number of inodes. When I have gnu-utils and abiword simultaneously installed, I have only 2 left on my /ramdisk!

If you are getting an error about Gtk2, then you must have selected Abiword Gtk2 version. If you had read the info file then you would know that all Gtk2 apps in the Gtk2 Section require the Gtk2 Libraries to be loaded first.

Even with 48MB you probably don't have enough memory to run Gtk2 apps
You should use the Gtk1 version of Abiword from in the Apps section.

Also with low memory I would avoid loading the gnu-utils.dsl over the years it too has gotten pretty big.

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