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Topic: Install Script for Synaptic, The EASY way to add more programs to DSL

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Posted: Feb. 29 2004,20:36

I ran it too, and it worked fine. Then after hours of browsing through all the packages, I decided to try the Window Manager asclassic.
It ran, I just put it in .xinitrc and restarted the wm. Found a .steprc on the net
that mostly worked with my version. Nothing like FVWM, of course.
Had problems deciding what to put in my filetool.lst to get everything backed up, and once I did that, had a big tarball, l8 MB, vs my 10 MB to start with.
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Tried to restore, and it ran into problems, read only filesystem, etc.
Good thing I had saved my old tarball, so now I am quickly up and running.
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Perhaps I'll try that remastering script.

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cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 01 2004,02:03

Rapidweather,

Try doing your restore AFTER you re-run the Synaptic install script. The first part of the install script creates a read/write directory structure that contains a bunch of symlinks back to the original read-only files.

Once the writeable directory structure is created, you may be able to successfully restore your tarball.

Another option would be to save the apt cache with your filetool/lst and use these cache files to quickly rebuild your system using an apt-get or dpkg script. It is easier to keep track of the files stored in your cache as opposed to the dozens of files that get scattered all over different system directories during a typical program's installation.

Good Luck.

cpr
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Posted: Mar. 04 2004,04:00

I tried it a couple time and well it does work at all. i receive a you have a bad interpreter caution.

i used both 6 and 6.1

my gear is a p4 with 512 ram

what is wrong. should i be root.

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 05 2004,04:06

You should run the script in location /home/damnsmall/.start_synaptic

And it should be run as the non-root user (IE: username 'damnsmall)

charpie

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Posted: Mar. 05 2004,05:38

Thks cbagger. Pretty sure I tried this, but I may have miss a key thing. So in details: I will boot up using my disk, I will open scite, find my script file in txt format, save it with under /home/damnsmall/.start_synaptic then open the terminal
chmod 755 .start_synaptic then run the script right there using ./.start_synaptic

I will give you some feedback soon!!

Cheers!!

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