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From: RayLopez99 on 10 Jun 2010 22:40 On Jun 11, 12:30 am, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > > And does not the attentive reader find it "odd" that RayLopez99 > did not respond to my posting, but only now complains that he cannot > find the details on the provided link which tells him exactly what > he needs to do to install the software when somebody else points > out that his plea for help has already been answered in another posting? Shutup. This is the fabled "Linux community"? A bunch of whiners, not winners. The confusion was because of YOUR truncated link. The correct link is: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions Please make a note of it. And thanks for your meager help. I'll find something else to ask about later, assuming, as is always likely with hobbyware, I cannot figure out how to install something. Already I'm unclear about what a 'repository' of installations is, but I surmise it must be recommended software that fits with the D.S.L. system requirements or some such. Proving that you cannot, like in Windows, install any third-party software in your Linux system. It has to be from an "approved" list. But I'll cross that bridge when I complain about it. RL
From: RayLopez99 on 10 Jun 2010 22:43 On Jun 11, 12:30 am, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote: > I don't understand why you insist on making things more complicated than > they are. > > First choice - your package manager for whatever distro you run - it will > fully install your choices. OK, got that. Saw the link--I was on the wrong link (wrong page) before. > > If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several choices. Aha! This is confusing. I'm not logged in yet, but it would help if you could please explain what it means "not in the repository". Is there a recommended list of programs "in the repository" that you should first check out before installing some third party software in Damn Small Linux? I have no problems with that, BTW. It limits your choices but it also is safer since you know the "repository" programs will work with your distro. RL
From: J G Miller on 10 Jun 2010 22:48 On Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 19:40:19 -0700h, RayLopez99 trolled even more: > The confusion was because of YOUR truncated link. No the link I provided was not truncated. > Proving that you cannot, like in Windows, install any third-party > software in your Linux system. Utter nonsense. ___________________________ /| /| | | ||__|| | Please don't | / O O\__ feed | / \ the trolls | / \ \ | / _ \ \ ---------------------- / |\____\ \ || / | | | |\____/ || / \|_|_|/ | __|| / / \ |____| || / | | /| | --| | | |// |____ --| * _ | |_|_|_| | \-/ *-- _--\ _ \ // | / _ \\ _ // | / * / \_ /- | - | | * ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c____________
From: ray on 10 Jun 2010 23:18 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:43:19 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote: > On Jun 11, 12:30 am, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote: >> I don't understand why you insist on making things more complicated >> than they are. >> >> First choice - your package manager for whatever distro you run - it >> will fully install your choices. > > OK, got that. Saw the link--I was on the wrong link (wrong page) > before. > > > >> If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several >> choices. > > Aha! This is confusing. I'm not logged in yet, but it would help if > you could please explain what it means "not in the repository". Is > there a recommended list of programs "in the repository" that you should > first check out before installing some third party software in Damn > Small Linux? I have no problems with that, BTW. It limits your choices > but it also is safer since you know the "repository" programs will work > with your distro. > > RL The repository is simply the collection of all programs you can install directly from your package manager. If it's not in the repository (I'm not familiar with DSL - but with Debian you can add additional repositories) then the package manager does not know about it. There may or may not be a way to use the package manager to install a package you download that is not in the repositories - Debian can do that - again, I'm not familiar with DSL - but I believe it is (or was) Debian based - so it should. The Debian package manager also has a facility to search for a particular application in the repositories - search by name; search by description and name; several other more obscure searches as well. This really isn't rocket science. Start up your package manager and work with it.
From: RayLopez99 on 11 Jun 2010 04:10
On Jun 10, 11:18 pm, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:43:19 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote: > > On Jun 11, 12:30 am, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote: > >> I don't understand why you insist on making things more complicated > >> than they are. > > >> First choice - your package manager for whatever distro you run - it > >> will fully install your choices. > > > OK, got that. Saw the link--I was on the wrong link (wrong page) > > before. > > >> If you 'need' something not in the repository, you have several > >> choices. > > > Aha! This is confusing. I'm not logged in yet, but it would help if > > you could please explain what it means "not in the repository". Is > > there a recommended list of programs "in the repository" that you should > > first check out before installing some third party software in Damn > > Small Linux? I have no problems with that, BTW. It limits your choices > > but it also is safer since you know the "repository" programs will work > > with your distro. > > > RL > > The repository is simply the collection of all programs you can install > directly from your package manager. If it's not in the repository (I'm > not familiar with DSL - but with Debian you can add additional > repositories) then the package manager does not know about it. There may > or may not be a way to use the package manager to install a package you > download that is not in the repositories - Debian can do that - again, > I'm not familiar with DSL - but I believe it is (or was) Debian based - > so it should. The Debian package manager also has a facility to search > for a particular application in the repositories - search by name; search > by description and name; several other more obscure searches as well. > > This really isn't rocket science. Start up your package manager and work > with it. OK thanks for that information. I was able to find the D.S.L repository, and it did have a bunch of programs "waiting to be installed" so that makes sense. BTW if you know how to make your left mouse button your right (D.S.L. somehow switched them on me--it's hard now to remember your right mouse button is really your left) pls let me know. RL |