Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Thanks artemis

OK I love it.
But no updates and almost no posts on this forum.
Sylpheed no longer works with latest Gmail.
o1mico is long gone.

Please post again, we need CPR here.

Regards. Tony.

Having browser trouble also.

Tried to install Chrome as per Barry but it crashed.

Pi4 is dead in this forum.

"Goodbye and thanks for all the fish"

Tony.

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=2347

Hi Denis,
There is a thread on this forum that might help you (raspup). The p1102w is no longer supported by HP and consequently
drivers are hard to find. My experience has shaken my faith in Linux. I believe it 's only tolerated when it is ...

Hi.
I have just made the switch from rpi4 to rpi400.
It was not as easy as I thought it would be. All the software was out of date and I needed a Debian OS to update and upgrade it. All my stuff was on USB and wireless was not working. Missing brcmfmac 43456.

Thanks Bigpup for your post, it saved ...

Hi bigpup,

try :-

Menu->Setup->Puppy Package Manager in raspup.

Update the data base then put your required application in the search bar.

I've got stellarium and wbar added. Still working on clamav.

Regards Tony. (better late than never)

Hi Mike,

after using puppy linux for almost as long as Barry, I now feel that the era of open software is coming to an end.
I recently posted how I got my Laserjet P1102w to print.
I had to go to an un-certificated site for the information. Within a few hours the whole puppy site went down over ...

Note:- The http sites mentioned below are now unobtainable on my firefox browser.
HP now classes my printer as end of life. My printer works but yours goes into landfill.
Regards Tony.

Hi,
in view of certificate problems I have modified my original post.

with the help of Raspi-developer on ...

Hi bigpup,

Thanks for advice. I spent a lot of time on the card defragging etc, but it kept going belly up. In the end I used the scissors on it.

Regards Tony.

Hi,

I use my Pi4 as a mainframe and have a usb sd card reader and writer as an essential accessory. That is why I use raw files.

Using dd creates a very small first partition and I found that my save file could only be created there. (mm0p1).

I have installed Stellarium and Wbar and got them both ...

I pre-format my sdcard into two equal partitions about 14.8 G each.

format the first partition to fat 32.

copy the zip file into first partition and unzip it there.

delete original zip file.

put card into raspberry pi and turn on power, it should boot. I had some difficulty

getting it to fit my ...

After installing stellarium, it would fail on missing libgles2_1.1.0-1 I simply added it using the puppy

package manager. A symlink would be better.

For first run, use monitor and type: stellarium -d

It should run, but defaults to somewhere in France.

Run your mouse pointer up left hand side of ...

Hi,

Welcome.

You can search for berryboot and see if it suits you.

Or look up Barry Keelers "easy" on this forum.

Please postback if you have any success.

Regards. Tony.

Hi All,
put this in script in ~/Startup exec xmodmap -e "keycode 133 = U0a3 U20ac"

It replaces the windows key with pound and euro key.

Also: as an old guy, I have to return " Proof of Life " certificates to my Insurance company.

If you have read my previous post, will you please post back to ...

Hi,
I am running version 8.2.0 in a usb3 stick by copying the entire boot partition on to it.

Q1 How do I upgrade to 8.2.1?

Q2 What Files do I actually need on the stick to do the flip?

Q3 Where has half of my 8 meg Pi4 ram gone?

Regards. Tony.

Hi,

Have been running version 8.2.0 for some months.

would like to update/upgrade to 8.2.1

Could someone walk me through this?

Regards Tony.