Saving Progams

Forum: Apps
Topic: Saving Progams
started by: Twiggy

Posted by Twiggy on Dec. 11 2005,15:02

Hello my fellow DSL users, i am new to DSL but i must say i love it. I have a tiny problem though. I went into myDSl and into UCI and downloaded aMSN. I have used it and it works, but with a few teething problems, such as when i click my Inbox it comes up with an error saying "Can't execute application : mozilla $url. Check Preferences". Any help with this would be much appreciated. Moving on to real problem, when i have finished using DSL, i power down as normal. When i come to use DSL again, i boot as normal, to find aMSN is not there, i have to download it again. Why is this, i download to the directory /tmp, so i thought this was the problem but if i try to doanload to any other directory i get "Download or Checksum Error".
Any help would be much appreciated.

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 11 2005,20:14

This is typical behaviour for DSL, and a topic that has been covered a bigillion times.
The system runs in RAM, so every time you reboot it reverts to its original state. Any files created will be vaporized.
If you want to have applications loaded automatically, put the mydsl package in the base of the DSL installation...if KNOPPIX is on hda1, put the packages on the lowest level of hda1.

The error is probably caused by trying to save to a read-only directory.

Posted by Twiggy on Dec. 12 2005,12:21

Thanks for your help, it is much appreciated.
I have DSL installed on a 256mb mp3 player, so all i would have to do is download the package to the lowest level on sda1 and it should work? If you could please clarify this. Also, does anyone know anything about the "Can't execute application : mozilla $url. Check Preferences" error i keep getting? Thanks again.

Posted by frank12341 on Dec. 13 2005,15:25

Quote (mikshaw @ Dec. 11 2005,15:14)

so, if i may ask, i have similar issues,

regarding saving downloaded apps you said;

The system runs in RAM, so every time you reboot it reverts to its original state. Any files created will be vaporized.
If you want to have applications loaded automatically, put the mydsl package in the base of the DSL installation...if KNOPPIX is on hda1, put the packages on the lowest level of hda1.

ME: can this only be accomplished by installing dsl to the hd, or can this be done on the cd itself that we are booting with?

Posted by clacker on Dec. 13 2005,15:55

YOU: can put the files on the liveCD to accomplish the same thing.

If you want the extensions to load automatically, place them in the root directory of the CD (the very top level). When you start the cd they will be loaded without you doing anything else (although some require initialization from the menu).

If you want to have the option of loading them or not, place the extensions in a directory called optional which you create in the top level of the cd. Now they show up, ready for loading, in the right click menu under DSLmenu.

topic has now been covered a bigillion and one times :;):

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 13 2005,16:15

Quote (Twiggy @ Dec. 12 2005,07:21)

I have DSL installed on a 256mb mp3 player, so all i would have to do is download the package to the lowest level on sda1 and it should work? If you could please clarify this. Also, does anyone know anything about the "Can't execute application : mozilla $url. Check Preferences" error i keep getting? Thanks again.

I can never think of the appropriate terms to use so that it will be clear where to put the myDSL applications. Using the term "root" is often mistaken for "/root" within the filesystem. Then again, using the "tree" terms (top level, bottom level) are also confusing, since some people visualize in reverse order of how others visualise (an upside-down tree, with the root at the top). So, to put it as plainly as I can, the base of the frugal installation is the place where the KNOPPIX and boot directories are when seen from outside of the DSL filesystem (from another OS, for example). From within Frugal, this place can be accessed either through /cdrom (which may be mounted read-only if you're not using the 'frugal' boot option), or from the mountpoint of the partition on which DSL was installed (probably not automatically mounted).

This place has at least a "KNOPPIX" directory and a "boot" directory. Put myDSL packages in this place (not in KNOPPIX or boot) to have them automatically installed. Optionally, create a directory here named "optional" to store packages which you do not want installed automatically, but instead have them show up in the mydsl menu for easy installation later.

The error message related to the aMSN configuration. It apparently is configured to launch mozilla, which does not exist in DSL. I don't use amsn, so i have no idea what file needs to be changed....it could be /home/dsl/.amsn or something similar.
Another thing you could try is creating a symlink to /usr/local/bin/firefox called mozilla. It would need to be somewhere in your PATH.

Posted by doobit on Dec. 13 2005,16:32

There is a line in the preferences menu that you can change to call firefox instead of mozilla.

Posted by tecker on Dec. 21 2005,16:10

<edit> duplicate post of above, sorry </edit>

Posted by Guest on Dec. 28 2005,23:10

I'm having trouble creating the "optional" programs folder on the CD in WinXP using CDBurnerXP Pro 3. I can create the ISO ok and it boots into DSL, but once I create the "optional" folder on the disk and put a tar file in there the CD will not boot. I tried using ISO level 1 and Joliet but neither worked. I am on my third coaster already. Any help woult be appreciated.