Corepup - a minimalist modular system

[Jasper]

I think it would be a good learning experience to be able to build up a working system giving me knowledge.

I already use the application in my OS.

I forgot that I would potentially need Python 2/3 as I have extension scripts. However, they are useful but I could live without them.

[wanderer]

hi jasper

then if you want to go the tinycore route

its very simple

just download the latest tinycore from the tinycore site
burn it to a usb
load it
and download and load the extensions that you need

and there you have it

there is a little learning curve to learn how things are set up
but its all very easy and straightforward

good luck

and keep us informed

wanderer

[Jasper]

Okay, will do

[Rantanplan]

Hello,

I installed TCL 13.1 on a USB stick.
It's a nice surprise.

I downloaded Deadbeef, but when I wanted to use it, it was "deadbeef devel" that was loaded versus "deadbeef".
How do I fix this?

Thank you.

Friendships.

PS: I don't have access to the forum because it's impossible to register.

[rockedge]

@Rantanplan What kind of problem are you having with the registration to the forum? We can fix that I think!

The answer is 3.14 or Pi or is there a problem with the email not being sent?

[fredx181]

Probably @Rantanplan meant the registration on the TinyCore forum (not this forum).

[Rantanplan]

Hi @rockedge and @fredx181 ,

Thank you for yours answers dears rockedge and fredx181.

Actually, I can't register to the tinycorelinux forum like other people (yes, Fredx181, well done ). The problem is known to the Tinycore team. They are solving it, or trying to.
For my problem, I solved it using the deadbeef-static-0.7.2-i686.pet package.
Then, I converted it to .sfs, and then renamed it to .tcz.
And it works fine.
Thanks to Puppy Linux.

With my best regards.

[wanderer]

hi all

since rockedge has been kind enough to allow this thread to exist
i have decided to post occasionally to remind people of this little project

puppy is great and needs no improvement
i use upupbb 32 as my main distro (thanks peebee)

however even though puppy does not need improvement
i feel it can be improved by making it more minimal and modular

i feel this would aid with the making things more manageable
both for the developers and the users

for many years i tried to do this
by stripping puppy down to just the ramdrive and symlinked extensions
then while looking for ways to break puppy down i checked out tinycore
and found that they had already accomplished what i was trying to do

i then realized i could use tinycore as my base
and corepup was born

after playing with the system for a while
it became apparent that the best was to do things
was to keep tinycore essentially unchanged
so it was compatible with updates from the tinycore team
but add puppy pets and sfs to the system as extensions to the tinycore base

there also are a small number of core tinycore scripts
that are comparable to the core puppy scripts
that can be modified to expand the functionality of the system
while leaving the base system essentially unchanged

i believe that by combining the 2 systems puppy and tinycore
major improvements can be made

i encourage anyone that is interested in these ideas to look into corepup-tinycore

i will continue to post updates and explanations
so that anyone interested can have a good starting point

thanks all
see you soon

wanderer

[username2023]

Hello,
I have several questions:
1) is corepup-8 meant to run in virtualbox (I'm assuming it's small) or as live.iso (I'm assuming there's no installer)?
2) Is there an easy way to install dpkg in corepup-8?
(the simple way means executing 1-10 commands in the terminal)
3) Is there an easy way to install apt-get in corepup-8?

[wanderer]

hi username 2023

corepup is based on tinycore which is an independently developed distro
it is not based on debian
so apt and other debian functions are not supported
corepup uses an entirely different system to add applications

corepup it is meant to run as a standalone distro
but i assume it can be run in a virtual machine

there is a version of tinycore called dcore on the tinycore site that uses debian functions
i would go there and check that out since it appears that would be more of what you are looking for

post if you have any further questions or comments
good luck

wanderer

[username2023]

There are a few questions I wanted to ask on forum.tinycorelinux.net. On the registration page, the last captcha does not move -> I can not register. I did not find the mail of TCL authors on the site. How to contact the authors?

[wanderer]

hi username2023

i think there is an ongoing problem with registering on the tinycore forum

however i am registered and i will inform them that you are having trouble

in the meantime
if you have a question you can post it on this thread
and i will repost it on the tinycore forum

wanderer

[username2023]

Did anyone answer the topic of registration problems?

this error:
tce-load -i /media/sda2/nano.tcz
nano.tcz: OK

nano
sh: nano: not found

[wanderer]

hi username2023

i will post this error message on the tinycore forum
with an explanatory message

lets see where that goes

any message you want to send them
post in this thread
and i will cut and paste it to their forum

wanderer

[wanderer]

hi username2023

this is the answer that they posted to fix your error
...

Sometimes when loading an extension through the command line
you will get that response.

Running the following after loading the extension should fix it:

Code:

hash -r

...
wanderer

[username2023]

answer for TCL forum:

it did not help, the error is in the picture
https://i.ibb.co/6w6JBL1/1.png

[wiak]

answer for TCL forum:

it did not help, the error is in the picture
https://i.ibb.co/6w6JBL1/1.png

I'm not running TC anymore so can't check directly. But if nano is indeed installed it would be worth your checking where on your TC system the nano binary is actually installed. If your system has the 'which' command, you can enter at terminal:

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which nano

If it was installed in, say, /usr/bin, then you could then try running it via complete path found using command:

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/usr/bin/nano

If which command is not installed, you could either try installing it or or simply look manually via filemanager or by using ls command in folders such as /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /bin, or maybe TC stores most binaries in some special TC-named folder?

[Rantanplan]

Hi everybody,

wanderer recommends using the latest version of TC rather than Corepup, as I understand it.

i use tc+ 14.0 32 bits without backup whith Xvesa.

in this environnment, nano needs 4 dependancies :
ncursesw.tcz
file.tcz
liblzma.tcz
bzip2-lib.tcz

I use Apps icon to download and load nano.tcz.
Then, in terminal, i type :

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nano

and it runs :

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In your msg, i don't understand, why do you use :

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su tc

And why do you load with this command :

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tce-load -i /media/sda2/...

Normally, nano.tcz is in tce/optional and tce/ is declared in extlinux.conf
These questions aren't matter for your problem.

Can you verify that all dependancies are downloaded ?

TU

[Rantanplan]

Hi,

This problem is knew by the tinycore's team.
No official solution at this time.

Somebody has find a solution : see http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.ph ... #msg168262

With firefox, combine Ctrl+Shift+I touchs to open "Developpers tools" (or similar).
Locate the captchas in the second row with your mouse and in the inspector screen clear the corresponding rows.
I had to make several attempts before I succeeded.

I successfully tried and i could register. But, I didn't receive a confirmation message.
And several days later, I was able to log in with the username and password.

Good luck.

Bye.

[Rantanplan]

Hello

Signing up for the tinycorelinux forum should be easier.

There are no longer the two rows of images to synchronize.

Below is the new recording interface:

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I didn't test it.

Yours sincerely.