hackerb9
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Joined: July 2005 |
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Posted: July 07 2005,12:38 |
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Hi. I just bought a copy of DSL from the DSL store. I was sent a copy of 1.1 (which I know isn't the latest), but it works well enough for me.
I found a couple bugs which prevented me from using MyDSL to install software over my cellphone modem. The symptoms: mydslBrowser windows either never show up or come up with raw HTML. The workaround: copied mydslBrowser.lua to my home directory and edited it to add linefeeds to the "index.html" file. I also switched to using links(1) to download instead of BusyBox's wget(1).
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dsl@box:~$ diff /usr/bin/mydslBrowser.lua ./mydslBrowser.lua
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< execute('wget -q http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/' .. library .. '/index.html')
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> execute('links -source http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/' .. library .. '/index.html' .. '| sed "s/>/>\\n/g" > index.html')
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After editing the mydslBrowser.lua file, I added . to the front of my PATH and reran mydslPanel.lua.
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dsl@box:~$ PATH=.:$PATH
dsl@box:~$ mydslPanel.lua
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Boring details start here for people interested in fixing this or who might be googling for the same problem.
First bug: clicking on a category (such as "Apps") from the mydslPanel would bring up a window with raw HTML code (instead of a list of packages). The reason for this seems to be that the index.html file was being downloaded as one long line. I used a simple sed(1) command to simply put a new line after every greater-than sign. After that, mydslBrowser would properly show me the list of packages, but only if wget(1) didn't fail (see below).
Second bug: occasionally, clicking on a category (such as "Apps") from the mydslPanel, the button would depress, I would see network traffic in wmnet, and then the button would pop back up. The mydslBrowser window would never show up. When mydslPanel.lua is run from the command line, I can see that it is wget(1) that is losing:
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dsl@box:~$ mydslPanel.lua
wget: content-length 19742 is garbage
Cannot open file index.html: No such file or directory
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Note that this is not the real wget that is failing, but the version included in BusyBox. (To be specific: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.12-14:15+0000)). Hopefully a newer version of BusyBox will fix the problem, in the meantime I've worked around it by using links(1) instead of wget to download the index.html file from ibiblio.org. (Side note: BusyBox's wget has never failed to download the actual .dsl files from ibiblio.org, only the index.html; I don't know why).
After making these changes I've been successfully downloading and installing lots of packages (particularly XFree86 and a DVD player). Yay for Damn Small Linux!
--Ben
DSL User since July 2005
P.S. My friend, who works for Microsoft, now has DSL running on her laptop. The killer app which made her give Linux a look? She loves playing xtris against the builtin tetris-bot.
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