install?
Forum: Apps
Topic: install?
started by: flocry
Posted by flocry on Mar. 26 2005,22:30
What about installing diffrent types of progs...like .tar.gzand others....
Posted by flocry on Mar. 26 2005,22:31
please some advices....
Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 27 2005,04:12
read the "documentation" page at the DamnSmallLinux.org web site.
Posted by cphp on Mar. 29 2005,15:15
The documentation is great, but I cannot find anything on how to install an app I have downloaded from the extension manager. . . . .
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 29 2005,15:21
If you used the myDSL Browser from the fluxbox menu, I assume it automatically installs the application. Is that correct?Another way is to download an extension from the repository (link on main DSL page). Once it's downloaded, highlight the file in emelFM and press the myDSL button. Or use the command "mydsl-load /path/to/extension". Or place the extension in the root of your boot media to have it load automatically during boot. Or put it in a directory called "optional" in the root of the boot media to have it available for quick installation from the menu.
Posted by cphp on Mar. 29 2005,15:28
I downloaded from the myDSL extension downloader thingy, and now I have VIM.tar.gz (or whatever the name is) in the /tmp directory. What do I do to open/install it? I
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 29 2005,15:33
Look at the top of the menu, under "mydsl" to see if "gvim" is there. If so, it's already been installed. If not...1) open up emelFM
2) go to /tmp
3) select the vim file
4) press the myDSL button
5) look at the top of the menu, under "mydsl" to see if "gvim" is there.
If it doesn't work, then the file is broken.
Posted by Waterns on Mar. 29 2005,17:38
I was under the impression that the myDSL button only applied to .dsl files. What about tar.gz's?
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 29 2005,17:50
It applies to all extensions. The same script is used to load dsl, tar.gz, and uci.
Posted by flocry on Mar. 29 2005,19:23
somehow i have an error with some programs like GCC or GAIM with something mentioned there that i don't have a compiler... i tried to download a compiler and then another error like ***The command "/usr/bin/gcc -o conftest -g conftest. c" failed
***You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
Who will give me a working compiler for damnsmall linux?!
Please some help in this....!
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 29 2005,22:13
< http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/ >Check in "system" for gcc1.dsl
Posted by cphp on Mar. 29 2005,23:52
When I hit the myDSL button in the center panel of the file manager, nothing happens 
I know the file is valid, though. . .
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 30 2005,01:23
Don't expect a window to pop up and tell you what's happening....mydsl-load just automatically loads the program into your system.If you didn't see any errors in the emelfm output window (that window at the bottom), then everything should be okay.
Open up a terminal and type "which gcc" or "type -p gcc" to see if the application is available.
If it's vim you're talking about, it would be installed in /opt (not in your path), so "which" won't work. gvim should have been installed to your menu though.
Posted by cphp on Mar. 30 2005,01:28
sorry for being so hopeless. . .why didn't I look in the menu?
? arrrrggggg I am so stupid Thanks!
Posted by flocry on April 01 2005,13:11
i did look for GCC and i find iti also tried to install it and it seems ok to me...
but something is wrong...
i started this topig because i tried to install gaim for my dsl and that instalation needed a compiler...now i have the compiler but when i try to install gaim it seems that it's not working...or more precisely i can't find the executable file to run it...
do you know something to help me...
thanks for the other advice
i like to think that i ow you one:D
thanks again
Posted by flocry on April 03 2005,17:39
hi allagain me and my installing problems...who will help me again
i want to install gaim for messenger
i have the package gaim-1.2.0.tar.gz
i have opened the archive and then i did command "configure"
first time the bash told me that i need a compiler for c++
i did resolved that problem thanks to mikshaw and then i restarted the configure command
next problem:
error with something that i need...some pkg-config and GLib 2.0
i found those files and i tried to install them
the pkg-config did not send me any errors but when i try to install GLib an error apears and tell me that the pkg-config components are not found
funny ha!
i need to mention that all the opperations i did were all in the /root directory
i need to make a special path?
how do i set the environment or whatever is needed for all this progs to run ok ?
did no one tried to install gain on damnsmall?and if you know someone can you tell me how he did it?
please i need your advices or a step by step install for gaim....:D
Posted by Caspar_s on April 03 2005,18:55
:-) what version of DSL are you using?DSL has apps pre-installed which you can download... you don't have to install them yourself.
Click on MyDSL on the desktop, or right click, then go to Apps, tools, MyDSL browser. Go to the Net section and gaim is listed under there. Click on download and it will install it.
You don't mention how you are running DSL - if you don't want to re-download every time you reboot, save it somewhere and then click on it in emelfm and then click the MyDSL button. (on the hdd or in the root of the USB drive if you always run it or under an optional directory if you want it available - it would then show up automatically on the menu when you reboot)
Posted by mikshaw on April 03 2005,20:28
You may need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to show the recently-installed "pkgconfig" directory.It's best to do this from a startup script such as .bash_profile or /etc/profile, although you can do it temporarily with
"export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
issued from the same shell that launches the configure script.
Posted by mustang335 on April 05 2005,00:59
try dowloading the dpkg dsl file from where you got gcci. Install it and try again make sure you are in root shell. if the file is in /home/gaim then cd /home/gaim when in directory ./configure If it makes it through and produces a makefile type make then make install. You might need the dpkg .dsl to make this all work. Just a thought. Old proverb: he who teaches learns twice. Marty