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Yep I know my way around Python and pip, but the requirement was satisfied using apt to install the required module. This potentially creates another minefield for the casual user as it's perfectly possible to run various versions of Python on the same box, and what apt installs might not be from ...

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Well, its later and I've installed Bookworm64 and achieved partial success! Which is to say, I managed to get v7 of KiCad installed, which is new enough to read the files I wanted to read. For completeness, I'll mention what went wrong, and what went right ... add-apt-repository didn't come ...

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Slept on it and had another look this morning. It turns out that the pkg install does find, download & install the libocct dependency. But there must other deps that it's not finding, because I thought I'd run ldd on /usr/bin_pcbnew.kiface and got this (grepped for "not found") libTKBRep.so.7 => not ...

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Ah thx, I couldn't even get a hit when I searched. Websearch is so broken. I'll give it a go when I get back home (slammed the laptop shut and went out to get a breath of fresh air
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Puppy Fossa 64bit Anyone managed to install a fully working KiCad 8 in fossa - or any Puppy, really? Yes, it's possible to install v5 from petget, but I need to look at some projects created in v8, and they aren't backwards compatible. The KiCad install instructions for Ubuntu go like this: sudo add ...

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Update: I managed to update meson and ninja to begin to compile gtk4 libraries in F96-CE_4 but ran into a whole range of missing pieces. Maybe compile it on a Jammy Puppy type for more progress........but it was encouraging on how far the build went to start off with. i hadn't seen this update ...

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There's a package I want to compile that has GTK4 dependencies. (presumably a situation that will become increasingly common for the Puppy community?) It would be incredibly convenient to have a GTK4 SFS available -- has anyone yet tried compiling GTK4 for Puppy & perhaps creating an SFS ? thanks

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Thanks for all the replies - I forgot to switch on notifs (d'oh) which is why I haven't replied with thanks before.

@pp4mnklinux - Yep, Wine isn't a fit for what I want.

@geek3579 - ha exactly why I was asking for an idiot's guide; i've been round the block with vbox a few times to no avail!

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Is there an "idiot's guide" to installing a VM (KVM/VMware/VirtualBox/whatever) on Puppy - either Bionic or Fossa 64 - and then installing Windows 10 into that?

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My broadband router has two wireless APs built into it: One runs in the 2.4Gz band and provides 802.11 b/g/n (up to 144Mb/s) so is suitable for devices with older wifi capability. The other run in the 5GHz band and provides 802.11 a/n/ac so is suitable for newer devices and runs up to 1300MB/s. The ...

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Yes the answer is two posts up the thread

courtage wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:55 am
I disabled "always on usb" (which allows you to charge external devices via usb when the laptop is off) in the BIOS & sleep works perfectly now.

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Bionic64, i7, 12GB, Lenovo Thinkpad T530 having a problem with Rox. Trying to set run action. Rightclick file, select "set run action" Immediately lose all icons on dsktop, blank black desktop. Doesn't hang anything, all the open apps are there & running and available in their windows & can be ...

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I have also seen the "disappearing trick". It's still running but the actual interface has vanished. Very annoying, though I haven't seen this happen in a while on my systems I find their support a bit poor (I sent them my crash log and their reply was to ask me questions the answers to which were ...

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It might be possible if you find the offending library to fix it with symlink(s) It seems that Bitwig fires up it's own java executable from /opt/bitwig-studio/lib/jre/bin/ If I invoke that executable from its location, it crashes immediately on my realtime install, but runs ok if I boot up a fresh ...

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Himm picking through the installation it seems it isn't touching the regular JRE that I installed but picks up it's own version from a directory under its own install in /opt SO I'vedone what I should have done in the first place & create a completely clean new install of Bionic & then installed ...

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Thanks @rockedge, but that didn't work. I'm disincline to think it's a hw driver thing as the same error occurs on wildly divergent hardware, or maybe I'm just whistling here. here's the whole log. The pid seems to be the command line its trying to run (per the summary) # # A fatal error has been ...

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Long shot as I'm a bit unhopeful many people here are using it ... I've had BitwigStudio v3.x.x running OK on Bionic64 (with @rockedge's realtime kernel )for a while. It ran OK even on my old Dell core2duo+4GB Upgraded to v4 and it crashes immediately after the splash screen on both the old Dell ...

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Ok I've found out a way to do this, albeit there may be easier ways which, if so, I hope someone will come along and tell us. I found this information on the Arch wiki, which is often a goldmine for obscure stuf like this. First, install the package xbindkeys (it should be available from the Puppy ...

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yes I know all that, I'm specifically asking about the slight peculiarities that Puppy presents.

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FWIW, I also have a TP (a TP530) and I haven't yet found how to make the volume up/down rocker work either. However, the "mute" button works fine. One thing to note is that (at least on Bionic64), the rocker's action is "seen" by the OS. So if you run "xev" in a terminal, then press the rocker + or ...

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If I had to "sudo" I would have ended up tossing the entire machine out of the second story windows. This single thing has kept me with Puppy since 2006. "ooooh running root is soooooo dangerous ..." It's *MY* computer, thanks very much, and I'll run whatever commands I like & if I trash my ...

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I'm running Bionic64 as a frugal install with a savedir, all from a 1TB Samsung 870 SSD as sda1 The days are long passed that I can remember the ins and outs of the layered fs in Puppy, so I'm slightly confused as to how fstrim will & won't work on my SSD. ~ If I issue " fstrim -v /mnt/sda1 " I get ...

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Ah! That's fixd it!
I'd previously found an acpi_osi kernel parm on an arch forum, but it didn't do anything, but maybe it wasn't exactly the same or maybe I didn't reboot or somehting dumb.

thank you!

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Thanks chap.
Sorry I'm a bit late to reply but I didn't get an alert even though i'm showing as subscribed .

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this seems to have worked

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fstrim doesn't seem to be included in the version of util-linux that's installed by default in Bionic64 (util-linux_2.31.1) I'm a bit wary of compiling and installing a version that does include it ( 2.34) because as I've found to my cost in the past, core Puppy scripts sometimes depend on very ...

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Most laptops have subfunctions on the Function keys - for instance, increasing & decreasing the display brightness - that operate in conjunction with a "Fn" key or sometimes the Ctl key. This has always worked "out of the box" on all the Pups I've used on all the laptops I've used since 2006 ...

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@phoenix thanks, this was an excellent steer.

I disabled "always on usb" (which allows you to charge external devices via usb when the laptop is off) in the BIOS & sleep works perfectly now.

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Obviously I'll check that out @wizard, thanks. I've just remembered that I have seen this before, and on another Lenovo in fact. It was partially resolved by adding acpi=force to the boot parms for the kernel, but it didn't always seem to work. Sometimes it woke up again instantly, sometimes it didn ...

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I know this has been a bone of contention for users of all sorts of distros for years, but I can't remember having hit it before myself. I've been running Bionic64 with rockedge's realtime kernel happily for a few years on an ancient Dell laptop, and it would suspend (s1) perfectly when I closed the ...

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Rox set run action problem

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