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Is ppa2pup the best way or adding to sources?

@galen I think using pkg in a terminal would be the easiest method to add a repo:

pkg add-repo  <PPA goes here>

I am not at a computer to double check the syntax (in a terminal):

pkg help

You do know that all the specific Fossapup64 9.5 repositories are already loaded in Puppy Package Manager(PPM) and pkg.

What repos are you wanting to add and why?

Wanting to add fossa back ports

And also test if sparky Linux nibiru buster 10 could be used temporarily to install riseup VPN

What exactly are you calling fossa back ports?

Fossa back ports repo
Nothing did show up, after LTS expires I think some debs will be addec

Per rockedge's reference to pkg, see this thread: https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=328.

Installing, then using pkg, is much easier than trying to add repos to Puppy Package Manager.

But see also mistfire's fork of pkg named pkg2, viewtopic.php?t=5367

UPDATE! This broke pkg....use caution....it needs some experimentation

@galen pkg is built in Fossapup64 and F96-CE_4. It is a good idea to upgrade to pkg2.

This is the command in a terminal that will add the Focal-backport repo.

pkg add-repo http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse

At both prompts press Enter key.

don't use pkg2 on fossa
it will wreck, wipe
/etc/pkg
it will corrupt and overwrite
/var/local/pkg/pkgrc

WORKDIR=/root/pkg
REPONAME=//ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/pet_packages-noarch/
EX=http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-noarch/
REPOFILE=
REPOURL1=
REPOURL2=common32 common64
REPOURL3=

so that badly breaks pkg, gpgk, pkgdialog ...

I removed pkg2 and
config files are now ok

Are there more repos I could add for fossa?

root# pkg rfl
Packages-puppy-noarch-official
Packages-puppy-common64-official
Packages-puppy-xenial64-official
Packages-ubuntu-xenial-main
Packages-ubuntu-xenial-multiverse
Packages-puppy-tahr64-official
Packages-ubuntu-trusty-main
Packages-ubuntu-focal-restricted
Packages-ubuntu-zesty-universe
Packages-ubuntu-zesty-multiverse
Packages-ubuntu-raring-main
Packages-ubuntu-raring-universe
Packages-ubuntu-raring-multiverse
Packages-ubuntu-focal-universe
root# pkg rl
noarch
common64
xenial64
xenial-main
xenial-multiverse
tahr64
trusty-main
focal-restricted
zesty-universe
zesty-multiverse
raring-main
raring-universe
raring-multiverse
focal-universe
root#

@galen The repo list looks good.
I can confirm pkg2 breaks the system. On F96-CE_4 reverted back to the original from here -> https://gitlab.com/sc0ttj/Pkg/-/archive ... ter.tar.gz and ran the installer script.

Now adding repos works again as expected. I add in ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-master using pkg when I need to install ZoneMinder for experimentation.

For fun I attached 2 scripts that will completely install Zoneminder on Fossapup64 or F96-CE_4 If interested check them out they use pkg to do the heavy work.

Not sure what you really are wanting to do.

I assume have more places to find software to add to Fossapup64 9.5.

you would be better off moving on to using a much newer version of Puppy.

Just because you can access these repos and download from them, is no guarantee the software is going to run.

The Puppy specific repos a much better chance software will work in Fossapup64 9.5
Packages-puppy-noarch-official
Packages-puppy-common64-official
Packages-puppy-xenial64-official
Packages-ubuntu-xenial-main
Packages-ubuntu-xenial-multiverse
Packages-puppy-tahr64-official

If you have not seen this you need to read it:
viewtopic.php?t=1819