GLIB >=2.40 is a dependency for Dropbox and I've read that upgrading GLIB is not easy.
A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
For vanilla pup: BookwormPup
For puplet: QuickPup64 (Dropbox fully tested), LxPupSc
Update: I misread the question, it's glib not glibc. My Apologies
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
BookwormPup64 should have 2.74.6 and that's new enough. You'll probably create many problems if you try to retrofit new glib in an old Puppy.
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
glib and glibc are not the same thing. If you need one of them to be >=2.40 it must be glib and not glibc.
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
In BookwormPup64 10.0.6
If you use Synaptic package manager.
Do a search for libglib
It will show that it has installed libglib2.0-0 different files version 2.74.6-2
This seems to be the best way to find what version of glib is installed.
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
@LANdpLAN :-
I have to concur with dimkr, here. Dropbox cannot be looking for Glibc>=2.40, because 2.40 is still under development, and won't be released until at least August. See here:-
.....so it MUST be this one:-
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/releases
.....since I doubt even Dropbox would be daft enough to try and build an application requiring a version of the General 'C' library that hasn't even been released yet.
(Hell, even the 10-yr old Tahrpup64 uses libglib2.0-0_2.40.2, so, um.......yeah! Most Pups from the last decade should be capable of running the Linux client.....)
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
I'm still trying to get dropbox working with Puppy linux. You say it is fully tested with QuiskPup. I get an error saying dropbox needs a different drive format. Stickpup make a fat32 usb. Dropbox needs ext4. When I reformat the usb to ext4 it wont boot.
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
I'm still trying to get dropbox working with Puppy linux. You say it is fully tested with QuiskPup. I get an error saying dropbox needs a different drive format. Stickpup make a fat32 usb. Dropbox needs ext4. When I reformat the usb to ext4 it wont boot.
If you reformatted the complete drive you most likely deleted everything on it.
Stickpup makes only one partition, formatted fat32 when it does installs.
Do not know how you are using stickpup to do installs to USB.
But it is part of the Frugalpup Installer program and has several versions of stickpup.
Info for it is here:
http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/fru ... index.html
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Re: A puppy linux version that already has GLIB >=2.40?
It's a fact of life that programs written for/coded to run under Linux will always work better when running from a Linux-formatted partition. You say:-
Dropbox needs ext4.
That's fair comment. Ext3 would also work just as well; it, too, has the journalling capabilities that Ext4 has. It's just the previous version.
I've used Ext3 under Puppy for over a decade, and it's always been dead reliable......and very, VERY stable.
FAT32 is NOT the best choice for this, if that's what you've been using. Question: is this a UEFI machine, or the older MBR/BIOS type? MBR/BIOS will run happily with a single Ext3/4 partition; UEFI requires a small, primary FAT32 partition for the boot-loader stuff, followed by a larger, Ext3/4 partition for the OS itself. This is in the UEFI specs; it won't work any other way.
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