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toshiba

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Posted: Feb. 05 2007,20:48

I have installed 3.2 on a toshiba laptop with 32 MB RAM. Thus, many apps runs a bit uncomfortably, and a get the odd crash and such. The MyDSL system is great, and I stubled over the gLinks browser. It seems very suitable, as it's speedy, and crashes less often than dillo. Problem is, it being a .uci-app, I have to reinstall it upon every boot. Is there any way to install it permanently?

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 05 2007,22:25

That depends on what type of installation you have.

If it's frugal, it won't stay installed, but you can have it automatically installed during boot by putting it in /cdrom/mydsl

If it's a debian-style harddrive install, mount the extension, copy the directory that was created in /opt, unmount the extension, and then rename the copied directory to the name of the original directory.

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toshiba

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Posted: Feb. 07 2007,12:04

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 05 2007,17:25)

If it's a debian-style harddrive install, mount the extension, copy the directory that was created in /opt, unmount the extension, and then rename the copied directory to the name of the original directory.

Thanks for the tip, but I can't actually get this to work. I tried to copy the glinks directory from /opt, unmount glinks with the uci-tool, and paste the glinks-directory back in. Trouble is, glinks disappears from the myDSL-menu, and I can't start the app from terminal either (typing "glinks"/"glink"). Any thoughts?

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 07 2007,12:35

The icon/menu items are automatically removed when you unmount a uci extension. They can be found in the user.tar.gz archive in the /opt/glinks directory.
The icon files (the image and *.lnk file) go to /home/dsl/.xtdesktop, and the menu item must be added manually to /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu
Do not reinstall the uci after replacing the icon files or you'll lose these files again. The menu item should remain as long as it's not put in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/mydsl.menu

You cannot currently start the application with a "glinks" command because the directory containing the executable is not part of your PATH variable. The simplest way to fix this in a traditional harddrive install is to symlink the glinks executable into /usr/local/bin:

Code Sample

sudo ln -s /opt/glinks/bin/glinks /usr/local/bin/

That assumes the file is /opt/glinks/bin/glinks, of course. I don't know if this is correct.

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