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Posted: July 18 2004,16:51 QUOTE

mpie,

This is the kind of feedback I'm looking for. (not always bad news, but it's better than NO news ! )

I just used the mydsl-menu icon on the desktop to download it onto my box.
Download successful, with both icon and menu option available.

Try this...

Reboot fram a DSL cd, and get to the desktop. Use as few options as possible.
( no mydsl= or restore= options,  just the basic pristine DSL desktop, enhance or dma is OK )

Download and install gimp using the mydsl-menu,
or use wget to get it from the repository, and use the emelfm mydsl button to install the download.
See if the gimp works for you now.. If so, then the problem lies elsewhere.
This may be a case where one extension you have loaded is a "bad apple"
Finding which one is the bad one is the challenge. Here's a few things to check..

Reboot back into your usual DSL, the one where gimp failed.
Use a shell to examine the contents of your .xtdesktop with the "ls-al" command.
Make sure that all of the .lnk and .png/.jpg/.gif files are owned by damnsmall.staff (dsl.staff in 0.7.2) , and the perms are 644 (-rw-r--r--)
If not, change them..  Also try the "chmod 777 /tmp" command posted elsewhere in the forums..
This should have your desktop in good order.

Another thing I check for is perms/owners inside the extension.
Try this... "sudo su" to root, and make a dir called "work" under /home/dsl/.
Copy your gimp1_20.dsl to this work dir....if you used mydsl-menu, you'll find the file in your /tmp dir.
Open the gimp using "tar -zxvf gimp1_20.dsl" , and then "ls-al"  to see that you now have 5 dirs..  /etc /home /lib /tmp /usr .
cd to tmp (often /var/tmp is used ) and run "ls-alR" to look down into tmp.
You will see that the owner of the gimp1_20.dsl file in the mydsl.menu dir is damnsmall.staff (dsl.staff) This is important.
Next, do the same thing for the /home dir. Both gimp.lnk and gimp.gif should be damnsmall.staff (dsl.staff). They also have -rw-r--r-- permissions.
This should be a tight, right extension, which has minimal invasion to the base DSL distro desktop.

One other thing to check for in the extension is BASE dirs in the .dsl file
Try this.. "tar -ztf gimp1_20.dsl > gimp.txt" ... Now open the gimp.txt file
with your favorite editor..  Notice that there are no base directories in the list.
( /etc /lib /usr /usr/lib /tmp /var /var/tmp ..etc.. )
Having these inside the .dsl file can wig out a LiveCD install, and KILL a HDInstall..,
often they are damnsmall.staff, when they should NOT BE THERE  AT ALL.

This is exactly my reason for rebuilding so many of the extensions lately.
I have yet to tackle the "testing_area" , as my focus so far has been the
extensions in the main area.
What I find frequently is that a contribution needs a little "sweetening" to
make it as "linux friendly" as possible, without overwriting anything in the
BASE DSL .iso image. This causes the permission/owners problems you are seeing.
Please check with the repository page, and redownload ANY extensions you
like to use, as chances are that I have rebuilt it within the last few days or weeks.

Also, please share with us what kind of install you were using when the gimp failed on you,
and what other extensions you had loaded in your OS at that time.

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Posted: July 18 2004,17:19 QUOTE

twas hd-install again as not enough ram t run live very effectivley, the only other thing i installed prior to this was firefox but from the menu not from the gui, so unsure where icon went, gimp runs fine when commanded from console or if click on usr/bin in emelfm ???
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Posted: July 18 2004,17:56 QUOTE

Firefox was rebuilt yesterday... grab the new one..
( if your using the .tar.gz version, and not the .ci version )

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Posted: July 18 2004,21:45 QUOTE

just done fresh install wget gimp first still no icon / menu entry?? think maybe somethings missing as cant fing ink file or a gif/png for the icon??
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Posted: July 19 2004,05:41 QUOTE

Can anyone else duplicate this issue ?
mpie, I went thru the build again, just to make sure everything looked ok.
I don't see any errors with the build..

Are you using the multiuser option when you create your HDInstall?
The icon and link files are owned by dsl.staff..
Another user name might cause issues.

I have rebuilt the dsl again with less emphasis on the owners name.
Do try to wget again to verify this issue with the new build.
You may have found a bug, but I need to duplicate your install.

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