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Dingo

Ah, hell; my bad. Good catch.

I had a huge clearout over at MediaFire the other week.....had a ton of files nobody had downloaded for literally years, so I decided it was high time I freed-up the space. I must have accidentally caught the WINE-portable directory by mistake! :roll: :oops:

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Dingo

Woof Woof!

time by time, following a scheduled routine, I make a backup of my savefile. I start a fresh live usb session with puppy pfix=ram, then I copy the savefile from my main usb stick (lets's call A ) to an an another stick (let's call B )

the strange is that, when i use cp, no errors are ...

Dingo

a question for experienced brave users:

the size of directory located in

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Brave-portable64/PROFILE/spot/spot/Brave-Browser/Default/Service Worker/CacheStorage

keeps growing over time. It is safe delete the content of this directory? Atcually it has reached 800 MB

Dingo

@Dingo :-

Try putting them under /usr/share/fonts instead. It's more of a primary location for apps to search.

$HOME ("/root")/.fonts is far from being standard, AFAIK. In fact, a quick search of my own kennels shows not one Puppy has this directory OOTB. Did you add this yourself? If so, I'm ...

Dingo

it's working very fine in xenialpup 64 7.5. There is only an issue wth fonts. It don't show the fonts added in /root/,fonts, even if I added this path to the font paths

Dingo

line of code jafadmin posted is commonly called the kernel line. each stanza in grub.cfg has one. presumably your existing grub.cfg has sda1 type syntax

another reason for inconsistent drive assignments may be your use of a USB hub.
do you have more than one USB port on your laptop?
if so try ...

Dingo

We have to re-iterate this from time to time, so here we go.
BIOS/Init processes automatically generate SD? assignments. There is absolutely NO guarantee that the disk that was '/dev/sda' this time will be 'sda1' next time.
So how to solve? Use the UUID's people. That is their sole reason to exist ...

Dingo

after some attempts, I think I have managed to understand why this issue happened. In fact, after unplug, at boot time, my USB 3 Hub
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub I no more experienced that issue. I don't know if it is a issue related to this usb hub or if it ...

Dingo

not working in XenialPup64 7.5, as expected:

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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /initrd/mnt/tmpfs/tmp/Midori-Portable64/midori/libxul.so:
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.22' not found (required by /initrd/mnt/tmpfs/tmp/Midori-Portable64/midori/libxul.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Dingo

implementation of pdftk toolkit in pure java

https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk

it is very interesting, relying only on java to work

java -jar /mnt/sda3/Documents\ and\ Settings/io/Downloads/puppy/java/pdftk-all.jar --help
pdftk port to java 3.3.3 a Handy Tool for Manipulating PDF Documents ...

Dingo

I accidentally clicked on option "run as root" resulting in a creation of several directories in /root for an amount of 34 MB about. I successed in finding two of these directories in.cache and in.config, but they still missing other data left by slimjet somewhere around for about 2 MB

Dingo

mikewalsh thanks for mentioning tahrpup. It can be an interesting second puppy to use everyday. In fact, I seen that on my Lenovo L440, it no needed xbacklight to dimming the screen light, since the plus and minus keys to regulate the brightness worked like a charm out of box. Libreoffice ...

Dingo

Dear mikewalsh are you able to run portable libreoffice 7.1.8 in your xenialpup 7.5? In mine, when I launch the script, I get:

javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

(soffice:17690): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:1:193: 'min ...

Dingo

What you may try to do is to boot without loading the save (file or folder)...then open Rox Filer (or other file manager of choice) and
navigate to where the PDF has been saved. Then move it to your preferred directory. It's also possible that CUPS may have created
a sym-link to the PDF (if ...

Dingo

I got this strange warning yesterday. What the hell is this? My puppy stuff is on flash usb drive sdb1

https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/e9/8c/03/MEPNU1S_t.jpg

Where did you install puppy linux on your usb? On a folder? If yes, then you need to specify the folder name on your bootloader ...

Dingo

AND, I also suspect you have not ever updated the laptop's bios-uefi. As a result, cmos battery or no cmos battery, this behavior will probably be consistently inconsistent. I have several old PCs in the same boat where an unchanged running distro, upon reboot, exhibits unsuspecting behavior.
I ...

Dingo

CUPS keeps... can seem a word joke, but, really, is is a very annoying thing: I once made a mistake and selected / as destination for a pdf file produced by CUPS. Now, every time I boot Puppy I find this pdf file recreated in / . I checked jobs and it is not present as job, I checked page log and I ...

Dingo

@Dingo - the message suggests specifying pdrv=
If you edit your grub/syslinux .cfg & in the kernel/linux or append line add pdrv=sdb1 , it should work, unless, as rockedge suggested, the usb drv is failing. (I assumed you have no other usb sticks plugged in on boot).

No other usb stick plugged ...

Dingo

@Dingo looks suspiciously like the beginning of drive failure. Have you changed anything on this machine to alter the boot stanza's in the menu.lst or grub.cfg ?

No. I have modified nothing nor touched anything. On this usb flash drive I have my frugal installation of puppy. The strange is that ...

Dingo

I got this strange warning yesterday. What the hell is this? My puppy stuff is on flash usb drive sdb1

Dingo

Dear @mikewalsh , if you still currenly use Xenialpup64 7.5, are you able to remember what build was the latest to work in Xenialpup? Current build don't start asking for a newer glibc

Dingo

Okay, guys. Update time again...

Here's the Puppy-portable version of Brave browser. We're now at v1.48.171 , based around Chromium 110.0.5481.177 .

Just as stable & easy-to-use as always. Download link can be found in post #1.

Enjoy.

Mike. ;)

unfortunately, in xenialpup64 7.5 CE, it needs a ...

Dingo

Maybe try to create the file:

The program can now be made portable by creating a file named portable.txt in the same folder as its executable. This will make it look for, and save, its configuration files inside that folder, instead of the default behavior of saving them system-wide ...

Dingo

You can move the file /root/.config/acbr-comic-book-reader to somewhere else outside of the save file, and then just 'copy' it back to the same location as a symlink ie replace the actual file with a symlink
This is a common method of avoiding the problem you describe - with many programs.

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Dingo

Woof Woof

Appimage are very useful, but they are not truely portable, since they create directories on filesystem with less or more content inside. I'm using a cbr comic reaader

https://github.com/binarynonsense/comic-book-reader/releases/tag/v2.4.1

that creates a directory in /root/.config/acbr ...

Dingo

to /root/.fonts directory.

Try /usr/share/fonts/TTF and fc-cache -fv , plus make sure you have /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-fonts-noto-cjk.conf

done. and this time everything worked like a charm. Now I can see webpages in japanese so, today I learned that the /usr/share/fonts/TTF and /root/.fonts ...

Dingo

dimkr wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:31 pm
Install fonts-noto-cjk.

Downloaded the gigantic zip archive of 243 MB, uncompressed and linked the directory with fonts to /root/.fonts directory. Noto-cjk fonts displayed and available to be used in all applications but I still continue to see the boxes instead of Japanese

Dingo

Woof Woof!

In Xenialpup 7.5, with every browser I tried, when it comes to the task to display special unicode symbols or japanese like this:

https://sakurapup.com/forum1/

I only get little boxes like this
sakurapup.png

the same for some little unicode emoticons that youtube users like to put ...

Dingo

Jreepad - Java Treepad Editor

Amazingly simple, amazingly useful, personal database software (based on the windows-only Treepad program). Simply store your notes in a single tree structure. Excellent for lists, outlines, document planning...

X-Jreepad_6.png

https://sourceforge.net/projects ...

Dingo

Yes, time is ticking... New brazen single-board computers are trying to push the old man... It's like in the biological world :)

Actually, two interesting devices have appeared this year. Both are from Orange.

Orange Pi 800
First, it is a direct competitor for the Raspberry Pi 400. That is ...

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