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Posted: Jan. 12 2005,18:37 QUOTE
Search the forums for ....
" .dsl AND .tar.gz "

Here's a thread to start..
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin.....tar.gz

..and for scribus, here are some other threads/discussions
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....bcd6b05


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Posted: Jan. 12 2005,18:40 QUOTE
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Why are there both tar.gz. and .dsl extensions. i read that .dsl are the tar.gz files with the extension renamed .dsl

I'm going to try to answer this before Kent sees it.... :D

The extension's extensions are different because of the way they are installed.  The mydsl-install script checks the extension to decide whether or not to run mkwriteable first (opens up more of the system for writing).  If the extension is *tar.gz, mkwritable is not run, and the package is limited to writing in /opt, /tmp, and /home.  This saves precious memory usage and prevents overwriting of vital system files.

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Dang....still too slow.
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Posted: Jan. 12 2005,18:41 QUOTE
scribus works fine under debian. I work with it in my dsl. Have a look at debian.org(packages). But its hard to install the new version 1.20 it, you need a lot of files (libs, ghostscript, etc...) and get a lot of errors and problems...
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Posted: Jan. 12 2005,18:43 QUOTE
mikshaw..

Yours was better...

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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,03:06 QUOTE
Quote (mikshaw @ Jan. 12 2005,13:40)
The extension's extensions are different because of the way they are installed.  The mydsl-install script checks the extension to decide whether or not to run mkwriteable first (opens up more of the system for writing).  If the extension is *tar.gz, mkwritable is not run, and the package is limited to writing in /opt, /tmp, and /home.  This saves precious memory usage and prevents overwriting of vital system files.

Thanks mikshaw,
I understand.

I also realised that Scribus has a LOT of dependencies. To make a scribus.dsl will be a lot of work. It is available in Knoppix.

I now understand that as far as the live CD is concerned, to preserve memory/resources the best/efficient is
.uci
tar.gz
dsl

in that order.

Thanks everyone!

Now to make my own extensions - starting small of course. It will be nice if someone does a how to do this with a real application as an example. I will start searching first :-)

A real example is worth a thousand descriptions....
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