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Topic: Server on startup, And other startup commands

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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 23 2005,14:19

Maybe i missed it, but did you try installing a Synaptic DEB package yet?

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,08:04

Sorry about the late reply, i have had a lot of homework (and real work...) to do lately.

I dont know what a synaptic DEB package is, do i need an internet connection to install it?
could somebody claify about the DEB package, i did a quick search, it didn't get me very far

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,14:00

sorry...when I typed "Synaptic" I meant "Synergy".

A DEB package is a precompiled application built specifically for Debian-based systems. It's the equivalent of RPM in RedHat-based systems.
The package is installed with the dpkg program. Locally it is done directly with "sudo dpkg -i </path/to/package.deb>", or remotely with "apt-get install <packagename>".
The dpkg program is available as a myDSL application, either from "system" in the repository or through the "enable apt" fluxbox menu item.
packages:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

A few differences between using DEB and myDSL:
1) myDSL packages are stripped of anything non-vital.
2) myDSL packages include all dependencies necessary to run in a default DSL setup (unless otherwise noted in the info file).
3) DEB packages can be easily uninstalled (UCI can too, but it's not technically 'installed').
4) There are many, many more deb packages than myDSL packages.

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Posted: Aug. 27 2005,10:49

Ok, i downloaded the file and tried the command on it. I recivd the following error:

"bash: syntax error near unexpected tolken 'newline'"

What does this mean?

also, i noted the packages synergy requirers (see http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/synergy ) how many of these will i have allready, i have allready installed XFree86 and gcc... do I need others?

thanks for your help so far.

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 27 2005,15:00

The error message looks incomplete to me. I think there should be a specific syntax error listed, or a line number. You are probably running a script that doesn't work with Busybox....i recommend upgrading to gnu-utils (also in the myDSL repository) if you will be installing debian packages. I don't know how important it is overall, but some programs will not install with busybox.

Couldn't say exactly what is needed...i could look through DSL and compare versions of all the libs, but i'm not going to do that. This is the biggest issue with using package managers in my opinion....dependencies are often very specific versions, and it's difficult to resolve all of them at once. I hear apt-get tries to handle dependencies automatically, so if you have DSL online you should probably try that (sudo apt-get install synergy).

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