New Extensions in Testing - Jan 2005

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: New Extensions in Testing - Jan 2005
started by: ke4nt1

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 08 2005,04:13

Thanks for all the contributions received in 2004 !

01/08/2005
opera754u1.dsl
snownews.dsl
twisted-1.3.0.tar.gz
intellivision_gamepak.dsl

01/09/2005
gmoo.dsl
vim_full.tar.gz
epic4.dsl

01/11/2005
cube.tar.gz

01/15/2004
frozen-bubble.dsl
briquolo.tar.gz
emelfm2.dsl
gcompris2.dsl

01/23/2005
xasteroids.tar.gz
bcm5700.tar.gz
freeciv.dsl
imagemagick-6.1.8

01/31/2005
aliendebs.dsl
bittorrent-gui.dsl
gscore.dsl
xmms-equ.dsl

Memo...
I have several extensions awaiting uploading to ibiblio.
There has been some issues with uploading to ibiblio lately.
These will be resolved shortly.
If you have sent an extension contribution to me,
and it is not posted in the "testing" area, feel free to
contact me PM or email to check on the status..

73
ke4nt

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 08 2005,19:08

Updated - 01/08/2005 - ke4nt

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 09 2005,12:22

Updated - 01/09/2005 - ke4nt

Posted by Delboy on Jan. 10 2005,15:07

Opera7.54 at last! Installs, configures perfectly, loads up in same time as Firefox and is a lot more accessible to me (I also use Win98 version). Mail client works well, nice GUI and just what I wanted. Note making mini editor too. All under the same roof. BRILLIANT. Thanks a lot chaps.
(1996 Digital Hinote notebook 133mhz, 40mb ram, 12.5" TFT at 800x600 res.)

mmm..., have had to stop using this for E-mail as the function for saving text attachments doesn't seem to work properly. Both .RTF and .DOC file types attchments are saved to /home/dsl/ but are corrupted to leave nothing but question marks when opened in Abiword. All other e-mail programmes I have used on this machine can save attachments OK. Any ideas? I was wondering if it is an overzealous security setting somewhere.

Posted by softgun on Jan. 12 2005,17:52

Why are there both tar.gz. and .dsl extensions. i read that .dsl are the tar.gz files with the extension renamed .dsl

Isn't it less confusing if we stick to one of these?

Is it possible to make Scribus into a DSL or UCI? Which is easier? Scribus is not available as a deb as far as i know.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 12 2005,18:37

Search the forums for ....
" .dsl AND .tar.gz "

Here's a thread to start..
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin.....tar.gz >

..and for scribus, here are some other threads/discussions
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....bcd6b05 >

73
ke4nt

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 12 2005,18:40

Quote

Why are there both tar.gz. and .dsl extensions. i read that .dsl are the tar.gz files with the extension renamed .dsl

I'm going to try to answer this before Kent sees it....

The extension's extensions are different because of the way they are installed. The mydsl-install script checks the extension to decide whether or not to run mkwriteable first (opens up more of the system for writing). If the extension is *tar.gz, mkwritable is not run, and the package is limited to writing in /opt, /tmp, and /home. This saves precious memory usage and prevents overwriting of vital system files.

//begin EDIT
Dang....still too slow.
//end EDIT

Posted by vabene04 on Jan. 12 2005,18:41

scribus works fine under debian. I work with it in my dsl. Have a look at debian.org(packages). But its hard to install the new version 1.20 it, you need a lot of files (libs, ghostscript, etc...) and get a lot of errors and problems...

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 12 2005,18:43

mikshaw..

Yours was better...

Kent

Posted by softgun on Jan. 13 2005,03:06

Quote (mikshaw @ Jan. 12 2005,13:40)

Thanks mikshaw,
I understand.

I also realised that Scribus has a LOT of dependencies. To make a scribus.dsl will be a lot of work. It is available in Knoppix.

I now understand that as far as the live CD is concerned, to preserve memory/resources the best/efficient is
.uci
tar.gz
dsl

in that order.

Thanks everyone!

Now to make my own extensions - starting small of course. It will be nice if someone does a how to do this with a real application as an example. I will start searching first :-)

A real example is worth a thousand descriptions....

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 13 2005,03:25

Thanks, softgun, that's a good idea. I've been working on a howto for tar.gz extensions over the last few days, and I like your idea of using a real example instead of /opt/something/bin/something

Posted by softgun on Jan. 14 2005,05:37

I am glad that you think so. The nice thing here is that we do it and end up with something that works! Gives one a sense of accomplishement and the thrill of viictory
:-)

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 15 2005,17:38

updated - 01/15/2005 - ke4nt

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 24 2005,00:59

Updated - 01/23/2005 - ke4nt

Posted by ke4nt1 on Feb. 01 2005,07:24

Updated - 01/31/2005 - ke4nt