Cannot install any apps from MyDSL

Forum: Apps
Topic: Cannot install any apps from MyDSL
started by: jrusso19

Posted by jrusso19 on July 10 2006,00:47

When I try to use the My DSL to download applications the buttons turn white and it just hangs?

I am logged in as dsl user

Can anyone help me with this issue

DSL is installed regular HD install.

Windows /hda1
APPS /hda 2
DSL /hda 3
Swap /hda4

Thanks

Jeanette

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 10 2006,01:41

They do that when the extension is downloading, and until it finishes and loads, it will remain unresponsive.

Personally, I just go to the mydsl page on the download site.

Posted by roberts on July 10 2006,01:50

1. Make sure your network is up.
2. Try a different mirror.

Posted by jrusso19 on July 10 2006,03:01

The network was up. I don't know another mirror is there a list of them?

It seems like it worked better as root at least it didn't white out just won'tinstall anything.

I never got to the download part as soon as I press the mydsl button it went white and stayed that way

Posted by kerry on July 10 2006,03:11

it usally takes a little while to pull the list down, depending on the speed of your computer, it could be a couple of seconds or minutes. you can go to the site and just download and save it yourself.-> < http://dsl.thegeekery.com/mydsl/ >

It appers that the main site-> < ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/ >
is having problems i couldn't get through.you can look here for other sites till you find one that works -> < http://damnsmalllinux.org/download.html >

Posted by jrusso19 on July 10 2006,03:19

Ok going to try to download this myself but I can see I need this gtk2-xxxxx.dsl library where do you get that it seems to be required for everything and I don't see it on the site?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 10 2006,03:36

Quote (jrusso19 @ July 09 2006,23:01)

It seems like it worked better as root at least it didn't white out just won'tinstall anything.

You can't use mydsl-load when you are root - that's why it didn't do anything.

That extension is usually only required for gtk2 apps, and can be found under the same 'gtk2' section, such as gtk2-0705.dsl

Posted by jrusso19 on July 10 2006,03:47

all the mirrors are super slow worse then 56 k. How do you install these once you download them are they .deb packages?

Posted by kerry on July 10 2006,04:28

depending on what version of DSL your using the the loader is either in emelfm or in the myDSL icon or you can command line it> mydsl-load xxx.dsl

Posted by jrusso19 on July 10 2006,07:28

Thats amazing

Is there any laptop power managment stuff for it?

I got this installed on my old laptop

Posted by jrusso19 on July 10 2006,22:37

I can't seem to get this gtk2 to work

I installed it but I get an error message that there was an error in the creation of /etc/pango/pangomodules

I can't get any of the GTK2 apps to run and those are the most needed.

Anyone have this issue before?

Posted by jrusso19 on July 11 2006,00:51

Disregard above I got it fixed