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Now I have Keyboard Switcher on my Desktop, My Mutual Fund NAV Tracker is working, I am very happy. I had to install LibreOffice Flatpak to make Mutual Fund Tracker work. The only difference between installed Libreoffice and Flatpak package is installed Libreoffice does not have JRE and it it is not...

I require Keyboard Switcher applet. To install it I did the following Installed devx.sfs rebooted Downloaded fbxkb-0.4.tgz from sourceforge Extracted it Entered the Directory fbxkb-0.4 # ./configure # make new2dir make install Got directory fbxkb-0.4-amd64 dir2pet fbxkb-0.4-amd64 Got fbxkb-0.4-amd6...

Yeah, I recall, had that same problem, libreoffice wouldn't start. Well, what's left? ...libreoffice in a flatpak or appimage? I would prefer Libreoffice on flatpak on Easy OS 5.4.6 instead but what about installed Libreoffice, I can't remove it. Can both Co exist? Update I installed Libreoffice Fl...

Is there any libreglo.so.* at /usr/lib or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu? If so, create a symlink libreglo.so to it. It is at /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libreglo.so By the way libreglo.so error is not coming now. # soffice Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly But it does...

# soffice Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The way to find what package has that library, is go here: https://www...

The LibreOFFice suite runs as the root user, so Calc should be unrestricted. EDIT: You could try running Calc in Bookworm. Run SFSget and install the bookworm sfs. That will give you "bookworm" icon on the desktop, click on that. In the bookworm desktop, click on "pkg" and choos...

No internet access for Libreoffice Calc file I have a Mutual Fund Tracker ods file which updates daily NAV of Mutual Funds from the URL https://www.amfiindia.com/spages/NAVAll.txt I find that the update is not possible since limited apps have access to internet on Easy OS due to security settings. ...

I decided to use commands
# setxkbmap -layout us
# setxkbmap -layout in

Downloaded gargi.ttf font and added it to
/usr/share/fonts/TTF

Can use Hindi Keyboard and switch back to English by command line.

But I would like to have Keyboard Switcher in the tray..

Tried version 0.6 just now does not work
# fbxkb
bash: fbxkb: command not found

I got a hint it said "Puppy is designed to work with 486 are you sure you want to compile for amd64" My previous machine was intel but now I have amd so I ignored the hint.

The latest version at sourceforge is 0.6

I know but it did not work for Puppy 4.0

I require Keyboard Switcher applet. To install it I did the following Installed devx.sfs rebooted Downloaded fbxkb-0.4.tgz from sourceforge Extracted it Entered the Directory fbxkb-0.4 # ./configure # make new2dir make install Got directory fbxkb-0.4-amd64 dir2pet fbxkb-0.4-amd64 Got fbxkb-0.4-amd64...

I came to know about Easy OS yesterday on Ubuntuforums. I downloaded the .img file of easy 5.4.5 from this page and checked md5sum. I created a folder EasyOS on root of the Ubuntu Linux I was running, mounted the .img file and copied its content (easy.sfs, initrd, vmlinuz) to EasyOS folder. I added ...

Any reason why -esr version?? Try: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/LxPupSc/browsers/firefox.sfs/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/LxPupSc/browsers/browser-latest-versions/download I opened Package Manager and installed it. I did not know about this sfs f...

I have done frugal install of this distribution and downloaded firefox-esr on it. But I can't browse with firefox. I tried switching off the firewall but it does not work. Another question is Firefox 78.12 the latest version of Firefox ESR? I can browse on Light Browser and posting this on it. Kamal...

I have installed flatpak on Fossapup64 9.5 as per instructions but getting the error for adding flathub repo. root# flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo ** (flatpak remote-add:10447): WARNING **: 11:29:23.001: Unable to register authentication agent...

As advised on this page https://helledussen.com/linux/files/UEFI_boot/make_uefi-bootable_usb.html I had copied only vmlinuz, initrd.gz, puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs, zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs to the root of USB. I noticed that there are two more files with .sfs extension i.e. adrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs and f...

I am trying to boot fossapup64 9.5 on Acer Aspire A315-21-43WX which is UEFI machine. In order to make UEFI bootable USB Stick I copied vmlinuz, initrd.gz, puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs, zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs to the root of USB. I downloaded bootx64.efi and grub.cfg from https://helledussen.com/linux/f...