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by Dingo
Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: "no such file" error when copying with rox from usb stick to another stick
Replies: 2
Views: 138

"no such file" error when copying with rox from usb stick to another stick

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 show...
by Dingo
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
Replies: 117
Views: 12628

Re: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...

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

by Dingo
Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:44 pm
Forum: Documents
Topic: Desktop publishing for all : Scribus v1.6.0 in 'portable' format...
Replies: 8
Views: 440

Re: Desktop publishing for all : Scribus v1.6.0 in 'portable' format...

@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,...
by Dingo
Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Documents
Topic: Desktop publishing for all : Scribus v1.6.0 in 'portable' format...
Replies: 8
Views: 440

Re: Desktop publishing for all : Scribus v1.6.0 in 'portable' format...

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

by Dingo
Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

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 plugg...
by Dingo
Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:30 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

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....
by Dingo
Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:13 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

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 depend...
by Dingo
Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Midori Browser Portable 64-bit
Replies: 13
Views: 1423

Re: Midori Browser Portable 64-bit

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.
by Dingo
Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:54 pm
Forum: Java
Topic: The JAVA Apps Thread....feel free to contribute!
Replies: 98
Views: 15343

Re: The JAVA Apps Thread....feel free to contribute!

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 Copyrig...
by Dingo
Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Slimjet-portable : Now includes manual updater from Fred...
Replies: 146
Views: 68451

Re: Slimjet-portable : Now includes manual updater from Fred...

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

by Dingo
Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:31 pm
Forum: Documents
Topic: LibreOffice : 64-bit and 32-bit 'portables' - AppImage-based...
Replies: 49
Views: 4919

Re: LibreOffice : 64-bit and 32-bit 'portables' - AppImage-based...

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 advantage...
by Dingo
Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: Documents
Topic: LibreOffice : 64-bit and 32-bit 'portables' - AppImage-based...
Replies: 49
Views: 4919

Re: LibreOffice : 64-bit and 32-bit 'portables' - AppImage-based...

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-height...
by Dingo
Fri Oct 27, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: CUPS keeps to print a pdf in / every time I boot puppy (solved)
Replies: 2
Views: 164

Re: CUPS keeps to print a pdf in / every time I boot puppy

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 stored ...
by Dingo
Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:51 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

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 settings using p...
by Dingo
Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:45 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

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 nee...
by Dingo
Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:05 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: CUPS keeps to print a pdf in / every time I boot puppy (solved)
Replies: 2
Views: 164

CUPS keeps to print a pdf in / every time I boot puppy (solved)

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...
by Dingo
Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:59 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

@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....
by Dingo
Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Re: Strange error at boot

@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 aft...
by Dingo
Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:44 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Strange error at boot
Replies: 21
Views: 923

Strange error at boot

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

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by Dingo
Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:37 pm
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
Replies: 117
Views: 12628

Re: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now @ v1.50.121...

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

by Dingo
Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
Replies: 117
Views: 12628

Re: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now @ v1.48.171...

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 ne...
by Dingo
Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:00 pm
Forum: AppImages, Snaps and Flatpaks
Topic: block appimage from fill pupsave with their content
Replies: 5
Views: 629

Re: block appimage from fill pupsave with their content

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. [↑] OMG! Sorry...
by Dingo
Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:29 am
Forum: AppImages, Snaps and Flatpaks
Topic: block appimage from fill pupsave with their content
Replies: 5
Views: 629

Re: block appimage from fill pupsave with their content

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. Also thi...
by Dingo
Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:35 pm
Forum: AppImages, Snaps and Flatpaks
Topic: block appimage from fill pupsave with their content
Replies: 5
Views: 629

block appimage from fill pupsave with their content

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-com...
by Dingo
Mon Feb 27, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: japanese (and other unicode symbols) not shown in browser
Replies: 7
Views: 344

Re: japanese (and other unicode symbols) not shown in browser

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 directori...
by Dingo
Sun Feb 26, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: japanese (and other unicode symbols) not shown in browser
Replies: 7
Views: 344

Re: japanese (and other unicode symbols) not shown in browser

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

by Dingo
Sun Feb 26, 2023 6:08 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: japanese (and other unicode symbols) not shown in browser
Replies: 7
Views: 344

japanese (and other unicode symbols) not shown in browser

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 in thei...
by Dingo
Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:35 pm
Forum: Java
Topic: The JAVA Apps Thread....feel free to contribute!
Replies: 98
Views: 15343

Re: The JAVA Apps Thread....feel free to contribute!

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/jreepad/...
by Dingo
Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:05 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: New competitors for Raspberry Pi
Replies: 10
Views: 1659

Re: New competitors for Raspberry Pi

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, the com...
by Dingo
Sun Jun 12, 2022 8:06 pm
Forum: Debian-Live Starter Kit
Topic: The Debian-Live Daedalus Starter Kit
Replies: 406
Views: 98817

Re: The Debian-Live Bullseye Starter Kit

Just trying to understand, how can this work if /etc/asound.conf doesn't contain the special config for Loopback capture ? Because the script copies /etc/asound.conf to /root/.asoundrc if the first file exists and the second does not. Suppose a Puppy user has an asound.conf file that sets the defau...

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