New Extensions in Testing - March 2005

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

Posted by ke4nt1 on Mar. 13 2005,07:18

I have evacuated the extensions previously in the testing area.
Seeing little or no negative feedback, they are ready-to-fly...

The initial hold on extensions is now lifted, and I am making progress
thru the backlog, after a stable 1.0RC1 release..
Send em' if ya got em' !

When building extensions using the deb2dsl script,
please use cbagger01's latest version, from the repository..
It makes the extensions compliant with 1.0RC1, and he added
some further cleanup to the script.. tnx cbagger01 ..

03/12/2005

antiword.dsl
(for earlier versions of DSL only )

billard-gl.dsl
chameleon.dsl
cheops.dsl
grub.dsl
gtoaster-1.0beta6.dsl
limewire.dsl
mp3gain.dsl
nxclient-1.4.0-75.dsl
rogue_theme.tar.gz
streamripper.dsl
xdrum.dsl
xwave.dsl

03/13/2005
ultima-4.tar.gz
bittorrent-cli.dsl
xvkbd.tar.gz
fusion_dsl_xmms_skin.tar.gz
ratpoison-1.3.0.dsl

73
ke4nt

Posted by GRAWL on Mar. 13 2005,09:07

must....find......wine.....................................

ARGH THE PAIN
WHERE IS WINE
THE PAIN

...................

Posted by jls legalize on Mar. 14 2005,01:39

where is the script deb2dsl?

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 14 2005,06:44

Use the forum search function or copy it from this thread:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....l;st=40 >

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Mar. 14 2005,10:26

Quote (Guest @ Mar. 13 2005,04:07)

must....find......wine.....................................

Apparently there will never be a WINE extension. Something about too many system changes, setups, permissions, etc. But apparently it's easy to just apt-get it and make your own.

The thing with extensions is that they are generic. WINE has too many non-generic settings to turn it into an extension, unless, I think, you knew that people were installing it in a very particular way, eg. straight after a boot to a non-edited ISO with no other extensions loaded, no other changes made, etc., etc.

Well, that's the gist that I've gotten.

Just try an apt-get.

Posted by jshaw on Mar. 17 2005,03:41

In regards to the limewire.dsl,

It works great.... once it's running. I have to open an xterm and type

Code Sample

PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_5_0/bin limewire

to get it to start. After that it's great. And if you add home/dsl/.limewire to filetool.lst, all of the settings will be backed up for the next session.

josh

Posted by Delboy on Mar. 17 2005,11:08

ke4nt; one testing .dsl you kindly put together but which didn't work for me and some others was iScribe.dsl. There is a 'cannot connect to the network' 'socket 34' problem which is not inherent in your conversion but to some linux distro's generally. ie. the linux version installs to some other distros with the same problem.
The developer has confirmed it as his no.1 bug fix for the Linux version.
I still think that with it's small size, pop server preview, and calender feature, this has more bang for it's bucks than other e-mail options that I have come across in playing with DSL. Especially for old hardware.
It would be nice if somebody could shed some light on a workaround that could make this useable.

Posted by thorzul on Mar. 17 2005,18:54

Quote (jshaw @ Mar. 16 2005,22:41)

In regards to the limewire.dsl,

It works great.... once it's running. I have to open an xterm and type

Code Sample

PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_5_0/bin limewire

to get it to start. After that it's great. And if you add home/dsl/.limewire to filetool.lst, all of the settings will be backed up for the next session.

josh

I encountered this issue as well; when I clicked on the icon nothing would happen, and when I opened an xterm and ran it said it couldn't find java.
I did add /opt/jre1_5_0/bin to my path and it does work. Question is, I wanted to have this done for me behind the scenes, so I tried this:

1) Created a script:

Code Sample

#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_5_0/bin
/usr/bin/limewire

(note, I'm not running DSL now, so the paths may not be correct, but they were when I tried this)

2) Modify .xtdesktop/limewire.lnk so it will run this script instead of directly calling limewire

But this didn't work. Any idea why, and what else I could try to get the PATH changed automatically?

Posted by jshaw on Mar. 18 2005,01:13

thorzul,

I've searched the forum for ways to change the PATH globally, but appearently there isn't a way to do this. Just change the path in the link to

Code Sample

PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_5_0/bin limewire

and the link should work.

josh

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 18 2005,01:46

Quote (thorzul @ Mar. 17 2005,13:54)

Question is, I wanted to have this done for me behind the scenes, so I tried this:

1) Created a script:

Code Sample

#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_5_0/bin
/usr/bin/limewire

Is your script executable? chmod 755 /path/to/script

Posted by Coma on Mar. 18 2005,02:59

hi there all this in regards to the limewire.dsl
This is what i did to make it work i added /opt/jre1_5_0/bin
to my PATH in /etc/profile
have a great day
Coma

Posted by thorzul on Mar. 18 2005,05:32

Thanks guys for the advice, I found another way around this.

in /opt/bootlocal.sh I added the line:

Code Sample

ln -s /opt/jre1_5_0/bin/java /usr/local/bin/java

and this puts 'java' (via a symbolic link) in the default PATH.

I actually did try editing /etc/profile but was unable to, even as root. I think this has to do with the fact that I boot from the USB and do not have DSL installed on the hard drive. Or I'm just missing something obvious.

In any case, it looks like there is more than one way to skin this cat. Thanks again.

Posted by Coma on Mar. 18 2005,05:42

Hi again all
i sent in revised version of limewire.dsl to include a path to java
in mydsl menu sorry bout that shoulda done that in begining
limewire4.8.0.dsl
thanx for the imput all
Coma

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 18 2005,23:19

That's why we have the "testing" phase

If there were never any bugs, what fun would that be?