Apps :: gLinks permanently

I have installed 3.2 on a toshiba laptop with 32 MB RAM. Thus, many apps runs a bit uncomfortably, and a get the odd crash and such. The MyDSL system is great, and I stubled over the gLinks browser. It seems very suitable, as it's speedy, and crashes less often than dillo. Problem is, it being a .uci-app, I have to reinstall it upon every boot. Is there any way to install it permanently?

That depends on what type of installation you have.

If it's frugal, it won't stay installed, but you can have it automatically installed during boot by putting it in /cdrom/mydsl

If it's a debian-style harddrive install, mount the extension, copy the directory that was created in /opt, unmount the extension, and then rename the copied directory to the name of the original directory.

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 05 2007,17:25)

If it's a debian-style harddrive install, mount the extension, copy the directory that was created in /opt, unmount the extension, and then rename the copied directory to the name of the original directory.

Thanks for the tip, but I can't actually get this to work. I tried to copy the glinks directory from /opt, unmount glinks with the uci-tool, and paste the glinks-directory back in. Trouble is, glinks disappears from the myDSL-menu, and I can't start the app from terminal either (typing "glinks"/"glink"). Any thoughts?

The icon/menu items are automatically removed when you unmount a uci extension. They can be found in the user.tar.gz archive in the /opt/glinks directory.
The icon files (the image and *.lnk file) go to /home/dsl/.xtdesktop, and the menu item must be added manually to /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu
Do not reinstall the uci after replacing the icon files or you'll lose these files again. The menu item should remain as long as it's not put in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/mydsl.menu

You cannot currently start the application with a "glinks" command because the directory containing the executable is not part of your PATH variable. The simplest way to fix this in a traditional harddrive install is to symlink the glinks executable into /usr/local/bin:

Code Sample

sudo ln -s /opt/glinks/bin/glinks /usr/local/bin/

That assumes the file is /opt/glinks/bin/glinks, of course. I don't know if this is correct.

Thanks, mikshaw. I haven't quite been able to crack this yet, but I'll keep tryin' for a bit.

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