Old habits die hard

[Luluc]

I just remembered something a little peculiar.

When I'm browsing the web and see some image I really like, I download it and keep it.
All the images go into a directory named "spotfiles."
About 15 years ago, I spent many months using only Puppy every day. Of course, the browser ran as 'spot' so the downloaded images would go into the 'spotfiles' directory.
I loved Puppy by itself, but abandoned it because I thought it was too much of a walled garden. Being restricted to any one distro - even Debian and its top of rank number of packages - bothers me already. Being restricted to pet packages soon became unbearable. There was too much going on in the world and I wanted to go play outside with the other kids.

Now the DebianDogs have been making me get interested in Puppy again. Being able to run pure .deb packages is a major draw. I don't even like Debian all that much. It's-OK-I-guess. I just use it because no one has more packages than Debian and whenever some software vendor offers their software on their websites, you can bet it's in the .deb format, sometimes .rpm.

And for all these years, I've been keeping all my downloaded images in the 'spotfiles' directory. I will probably never change that anymore.

[bigpup]

All the newer versions of Puppy Linux can use deb packages to install software.
Been able to do that for many years now.

Download the deb package.
Left click on the deb package to install it.

But depending on the deb package and what it provides.

Some dependency stuff may not be in the specific Puppy version.
but an internet search can find what is needed to also add.

If you are getting a deb package from a specific software web site.
If they only offer one package.
It usually needs to be installed in a latest version of Puppy Linux, to have the needed dependency stuff.
If they offer more than one deb package, try to get one for the OS that matches the time of the Puppy versions release.

Example:
A deb package for Ubuntu fossa will usually also work in Fossapup64 9.5 or F96-CE_4

Welcome to Linux Software!

BookwormPup64 can get deb packages, directly from Debian repositories, using it's apt and synaptic package manager.