picasa

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: picasa
started by: shankus

Posted by shankus on Sep. 26 2007,04:11

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.
Cheers

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 26 2007,06:25

60mb 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.

Posted by shankus on Sep. 26 2007,08:42

thanks,
can i install .deb programs to my hard drive? how?
and, i know deb2dsl
is there a deb2unc ?

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 26 2007,14:25

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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.

Posted by florian on Sep. 26 2007,19:14

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.

Posted by curaga on Sep. 26 2007,19:39

There's an app for exactly what you are looking for, florian: flphoto

Posted by florian on Sep. 27 2007,11:29

Thanks a lot curaga! I will try flPhoto out. If I like it then I'll make a MyDSL extension out of it whenever I manage to get some free time.

Posted by stupid_idiot on Sep. 27 2007,12:21

Re: Manual .unc
1. To be able to extract .deb's, get:
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....pkg.dsl >
2. Make the dir where you want to extract the contents:

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mkdir whatever

3. Extract contents of .deb into 'whatever':

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dpkg-deb --extract picasa.deb whatever

4. Generate the .unc:

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mkisofs -R -hide-rr-moved -cache-inodes -pad whatever | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > picasa.unc

5. Load the new .unc:

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mydsl-load picasa.unc
OR
Desktop Menu -> Apps -> Tools -> myDSL Extension Browser -> Load Local

Posted by shankus on Oct. 03 2007,02:59

I did a debina installation to hard drive of DSL and then installed picasa using dpkg -i, it seems to be working ok now.
i wanted to try flphoto, if its light weight, i'll like that better. but i do not know how to intsall it

how do i 'compile from souce'? or is it 'make' please tell me the commands to type
thanks

Posted by florian on Oct. 04 2007,11:05

flphoto looks cool while being lightweight. I tried to compile it on my XUbuntu box on which I had check I had the proper libs with similar version than in DSL.

The configure autoconf script reported everything ok. But when i do 'make', then I ran into a compile issue that flphoto uses a function in libjpeg with parameters that doesn't match the function's signature as defined in libjpeg.

curaga (or others): any luck in compling flphoto?

Posted by curaga on Oct. 04 2007,14:30

I haven't tried, but if it makes you happy, I'll try

Posted by florian on Oct. 04 2007,17:17

@curaga: ha ha ha yep that would make me so happy

Posted by curaga on Oct. 04 2007,17:24

Ok, just did it. The only trouble I had was Flphoto needing fltk unstable, instead of stable 1.1.7 (my extension too XD)

It works great. The image editing also works fine, I could blur and crop and remove red eyes ;)

A lesson for ya: for DSL, always compile on DSL!
I did, and no trouble. So I'm just sending flphoto.tar.gz to Robert, hang for a couple of days

Posted by florian on Oct. 06 2007,17:49

Cool! Thanks! Looking forward to using flphoto!