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ChrisH

I'm baaaack! And it works! From the menu icon. Screenshot(9).png Yaay! So, despite still having maybe not quite the same installation outcomes as you, Sofiya or you, rockedge I now have Vassal working on my laptop in Puppy. The dream ticket. It just remains to say thank you everyone for all your ...

ChrisH

I'm going to install the (apparently) missing openjdk package and see what it does. Sofiya I followed the process in your first YouTube video, so using the legacy PPM rather than the PPM NG, which is the PPM that I used previously. I refreshed the databases then found openjdk-21-jre_21.0.4+7 and ...

ChrisH

I'm back online

ChrisH

Hi rockedge Yes, I'm using persistence. I'm running with a save folder per the recommended setup option. But see the comment I've added in the post before yours. Maybe I'm still missing a java package? Update: I'll be away from this for an hour or so. So please don't push yourself to respond. I'll ...

ChrisH

So, after rebooting I opended a terminal and tried which java which returns ... nothing and echo $PATH: which returns /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/my-applications/bin:/usr/games: . I seem to remember that openjdk-21-jre_21.0.4+7 was not the only package that was mentioned in ...

ChrisH

OK, so I've updated the PPM databases and found

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openjdk-21-jre_21.0.4+7

which I've selected for installation. And installed. Successfully, it seems. As in there are no missing dependencies. Rebooting ...

ChrisH

Hi rockedge & Sofiya , both those links worked. The indirect link to Sofiya's Git Hub folder and the direct link to the .pet file. I can now see why the link in your previous post didn't work for me. The URL it invokes is https://github.com/sofijacom/vassal/releases/tag/vassal-3.7.14_1.x86_64.pet ...

ChrisH

I thought that might be the case. So I have managed to obtain a file which is named vassal-3.7.14_1.x86_64.pet even though all the download attempts that I made reported as fails. As I noted in the other post, when opened as a text file it contains a lot of code. Scanning the code, a task for which ...

ChrisH

Hi rockedge , thanks for such a prompt reply. I'll try that route shortly and let you know what happens. In the meantime though, do I need to be concerned by the warning message that I had from the forum's system that was generated when I tried to upload the .pet file that had downloaded? Regards ...

ChrisH

One last minor (maybe) comment. If I open the vassal-3.7.14_1.x86_64.pet file as text I find >1600 lines of code. I've attached the file below, in case it sheds any light on the problem. Er, no I haven't as the system rejects it with this error message Screenshot(5).png I'm beginning to have a bad ...

ChrisH

Here's why I seem to be stuck with only being able to add three files. There are only three entries available in the attachments list and no way to add more. The "Add files" button doesn't seem to have any effect.

ChrisH

rockedge , so today I managed to make some time to try to move forward on this project. I'm following the suggestions you made in your previous post . So far I've set up a new, clean copy of F96-CE_4 then made the following three changes only. (1) I added a menu item to allow me to use my common ...

ChrisH

rockedge , OK, it looks like I downloaded an out of date Hash key file. The file I used for my failed attempt came from this address https://rockedge.org/kernels/data/ISO/F96-CE/SHA1-MD5_devx_fossapup64_9.6.txt , which I must have picked up by mistake by copying the hash file link for the devx ...

ChrisH

rockedge , Jasper , thanks. I've never been really sure of the purpose of the hash key. I have it in mind that it's to verify that the downloaded file has not been maliciously modified, though I don't remember where I first got that idea from. That's the reason why I wondered whether I should trust ...

ChrisH

So, wget worked and the iso was successfully downloaded as follows wget https://rockedge.org/kernels/data/ISO/F96-CE/F96-CE_4.iso but the file failed with GtkHash using the hash file from https://rockedge.org/kernels/data/ISO/F96-CE/SHA1-MD5_F96-CE_4-ISO.txt . So maybe I shouldn't trust it? Regards ...

ChrisH

@Jasper & @pp4mnklinux , thanks for your advice. I'll give that a try. Best regards, @ChrisH

ChrisH

Hi rockedge (and friends), Following from our discussion about fixing my Vassal implementation problem on this thread I'm trying to download the iso for F96-CE_4 so that I can try implementing Vassal on that distro. Unfortunately every attempt to download it ends with a Secure Connection Failed ...

ChrisH

rockedge , mikewalsh , Sofiya , thanks again for all your feedback. I'm not going to be able to get on with working on this before the weekend but I will get back to it then. In the meantime here's a thought in response to your "alternative puppy" comment, rockedge . I will try the alternative ...

ChrisH

rockedge , mikewalsh , Sofiya , Good afternoon (well, here in the UK) everyone. I've now managed to work through the various suggestions which you all kindly made and here are the results. Don't get too excited, it's still not working but at least I can give you some more details to work with. NOTE ...

ChrisH

rockedge thanks for your reassurance. I'm really grateful for everyone's, very generous support. I'm not online with puppy just now but as soon as I am I'll reinstall Java, make a careful note of the steps that I go through and let you know the result. Sofiya Your point that, "after installing Java ...

ChrisH

Hi rockedge right, I just managed to get back to this and I tried your suggestion of executing: echo $PATH which returned the following string of locations /bin : /usr/bin : /sbin : /usr/sbin : /usr/local/bin : /root/my-applications/bin : /usr/games : . So that looks to be short of the following ...

ChrisH

Hi mikewalsh , right, I just managed to get back to this and I tried your suggestion of executing java -jar VASSAL.sh while in /opt/vassal . That didn't work. Here's the sequence of commands and the returned error. root# cd /opt/vassal root# java -jar VASSAL.sh bash: java: command not found So maybe ...

ChrisH

@mikewalsh , @rockedge , thanks very much for your replies and advice. I'll follow up your suggestions, though it may be a day or two before I can get back to this. I'll let you know how I get on as soon as I'm able. Best regards, ChrisH

ChrisH

Hi rockedge , I'm sorry to be late back to the party. I got diverted by some family stuff so it's taken me longer to find a space to get on with this than I expected. However I'm back on it now and here's where I'm up to. I've followed the instructions in your earlier post and (1) downloaded and ...

ChrisH

Sofiya Thanks for your input. I take it that you're presenting here an alternative way to get Vassal installed and running on Puppy? That's good of you. Thanks. I'll test rockedge 's approach first, as I've promised too, but I'll come back and try yours if his approach can't be made to work. Best ...

ChrisH

@rockedge Thanks. Will do. Regards, ChrisH

ChrisH

Hi mikewalsh , thanks very much for your input. Funnily enough I was reading back over our previous conversation at almost the same time as you were writing so I've now "remembered" what the problem was but your message is also a big help to me getting a better sense of it. It's a bit sad that the ...

ChrisH

rockedge for some reason I missed the back end of your post when I replied earlier. The part following "getting the proper java engine version installed". I've no idea why. So I hadn't spotted your instructions for installing Java, doh! :roll: I've seen those now so I'll try all this out tomorrow ...

ChrisH

rockedge , thank you very much for replying so promptly and especially for picking up the problem. It's very good of you and I'm really grateful. I can easily move the Vassal folder to /opt and I'll do that but I also wonder, would placing a symlink to the folder in /opt do the same job? Let me ...

ChrisH

Hi geo_c , thanks for your reply. As I happens I don't think I'm running a KLV, by which I presume you mean something to do with Kennel Linux? I'm running: Frugal installation of Fossapup64 9.5 Installed on an internally mounted 500Gb SSD (ATA Samsung SSD 860) System hardware is an aging, Acer ...

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