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Topic: Noob Question...., .DSL and tar.gz files..

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foz11

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,01:47

Hi,

First post so be gentle, i had a .dsl file i put in the root of the cd and the application ran fine from ATerminal, i found a newer version of the application and its in a .tar.gz format, so i put this in the root of the cd but it seems to unarchive the files in a different location to the the .dls file.

dls file goes to /ramdisk/bin - i think and .tar.gz goes to the root?

This all might not make much sense as it is late but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Michael

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,05:16

Always use the mydsl system to load mydsl extensions and you won't have any confusion.

The mydsl-load command will handle the icon and menu items same for the boot time load options.

But generally speaking .dsl would install based on /
.tar.gz extensions install based on /opt

However a manual tar type install will not give you your menu item or icon.

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,05:53

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i found a newer version of the application and its in a .tar.gz format

A "*.tar.gz" file does not necessarily mean that it will install properly using mydsl. On the contrary, most *.tar.gz files available online are source packages, and will not install as a packaged program in DSL.

You should assume that the only files that will install this way into DSL are those which are found in myDSL repositories, or specifically labeled "mydsl".

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roberts

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Posted: Nov. 25 2006,06:17

And to follow up even more...

The .tar.gz mydsl extensions should probably be dropped in favor of the .uci extension type.

This will avoid the confusion of a generic .tar.gz be it source or binary.

Perhaps we can begin to move in that direction.

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