cmanb
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Posted: April 19 2006,12:59 |
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[quote=Yoda,April 18 2006,14:32][/quote]
Wow. You probably got "21 views and not one answer" because this is a crazy, general, multi-question post.
Hmm.
| Quote | | i've been having some trouble with dependencies, most notably, for wine. if it (synaptic) says wine depends on libwine, which is fine in and of itself, find libwine, install it, or so i thought. libwine depends on libarts, libcupsys2, libsane, libusb and xlibmesa, fine, go find those, whatever, but then you go back to get wine, and it still doesn't want to download it... what am i doing wrong? |
What do you mean? It won't download it? Is this a problem with your internet connection or your browser? Or are you downloading it through Synaptic? Perhaps try using 'wget' to nab the file and then an 'apt-get install'. (Or an 'apt-get update' if that's what the command is. I don't know apt-get.)
| Quote | | another problem i am having is finding some of the files that it (synaptic) downloads, is there anyway to /find/ them without searching every folder manually? |
Oh, god yes. Please learn to effectively use grep. In my own personal history, it was what hands-down convinced me that unix systems are much easier to use than microsoft systems.
man grep
| Quote | | another problem is that some files just don't do anything, one example being limewire, i downloaded it, but clicking on it does nothing. |
No idea. Be more specific with what, exactly, it is that you're asking. What file did you download? Where did you download it? How did you install it? Etc.
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and finally, are you supposed to do anything with dsl-dpkg..dsl and gnu-utils.dsl, or do you just download them and let them be, because when i click on them nothing happens aswell. |
These are mydsl extensions. How you load them depends in part in how you get them. If you use the mydsl extension browser to get 'em, then they are downloaded to, by default, /tmp and then automatically loaded. If you download them through your browser or through the command line, then you'll have to load them manually. This can be done from the command line or through emelfm.
Command line
1. Be in the directory as myextension.dsl
2. Type "mydsl-load myextension.dsl" (w/o quotes).
Emelfm
1. Find the extension in the directory to which it was downloaded.
2. Select it.
3. Click "MyDSL" (You should get a Success! message.)
And finally, Yoda, the frayed and inspecific nature of this post makes it annoying to respond to. Coupled with the fact that at the time I'm posting this, there are 10 times as many guests as there are registered users, you can see how there may be a high view-to-reply ratio. Be patient. There are some smart and helpful people living in this forum. (I'm not one of them, but I try.)
Welcome to Damn Small Linux. I hope you get it to do everything you want to. This little distro has taught me almost everything I know about Linux. Read every script you can get your hands on.
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Heavens to Murgatroid!
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