Adding Applications

Forum: Apps
Topic: Adding Applications
started by: VoidOfTheSky

Posted by VoidOfTheSky on Jan. 20 2004,04:20

i was wondering if it was possible to add applications to DSL before i burn it to a cd? so i won't have to use a portion of my hd. this way i'll have them no matter where i use DSL

Posted by markgamber on Jan. 20 2004,04:46

That's what apt-get is all about. Part of my installation process is:

sudo apt-get install apache php4 smbfs samba make gcc g++ tk8.4-dev synaptic tn5250 wmtop wmweather tsclient xmms-dev xcdroast xine0ui mozilla-firebird gaim LinNeighborhood vncserver hdparm

If nothing else, install synaptic and page through all the available packages to see what you want to install.

The source file of installed packages (wmweather_2.4.2-1_i386.deb, for example) are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Posted by Del on Jan. 20 2004,06:04

Mark,
I think he wants to install apps to the CD itself, so they're present on a LiveCD boot.

Void,
Short answer: no.

Long answer: Ya, but it takes some work. You'll still have to have useable hard drive space (a few hundred Mb). See < http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixRemasteringHowto > It's not quite the same, but very similar to remaster DSL.

With John's permission, I'll whip up a DamnSmall Remastering HowTo. (when I find the time... maybe this weekend, but not positive)

Posted by markgamber on Jan. 20 2004,07:20

Gotcha....thanks. I wouldn't mind doing that myself, too.

Posted by libretto on Jan. 21 2004,00:12

Oh a DSL remastering howto would be sooooo useful! Esp if john keeps slipping out thses updates! ;)

Keep up the good work

Posted by ursixc9 on Feb. 01 2004,01:59

I tried apt-get install apache gcc g++ and so on... nothing works!! I get the following:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package (synaptic or whatever i'm trying to install) has not available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list
E: Package (synaptic or whatever i'm trying to install) has no installation candidate

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Feb. 01 2004,09:04

Did you do a dpkg-restore first?

Posted by hasty on Feb. 01 2004,12:53

Del......
Great idea:)

Posted by ursixc9 on Feb. 01 2004,19:04

yeah, i did the dpkg-restore and update..... those ones installed easily.. but nothing else will install after that