User Feedback :: new extensions in 0.7

I downloaded abiword.dsl, copied it to /root, renamed it *.tar.gz, ran tar -zxvf abiword.tar.gz and it seemed to install fine, but it will not launch, and I couldn't find any abiword-files in the usual directories. Couldn't even track the directories it seemed to create when I ran tar. Have I done something wrong? Is it perhaps not possible to do this when I have a hd-install?

-r

myDSL as posted is really for liveCD users. But I supposed there will always be those who will hack away. Why would you suppose that it should be installed under /root ? Therein lies your problem. Try / and then look in /opt directory. Should work. You will not benefit from the easy upgade nor the dynamic menu options by hacking .dsl. to install on hard drive installed systems You may want to try the liveCD method and take advantage of these new capabilities. I know it is typical to install to hard drive. But now you may opt to keep it a liveCD or frugally installed. Then you have an easy upgrade path.

Thanks a lot! That did the trick. I have now managed to install both abiword and openoffice on my hd-install, although I understand that the idea of course was to use this with the live-CD option. For me it was important to have a fast and reliable system on my laptop, and dsl is brilliant so far! So, although I have gone somewhat beyond your intentions with the distro (I understand), I must congratulate you with a brilliant distro! Really great! (And I mean the live-version also, of course, but it works great as a hd-install also!)

Greetings from Norway.

-r

So hopefully I've got this out correctly; .dsl are just .tar.gz but when the extension is seen the
filesystem is made writable (well my homemade xmgr.dsl seems to work and xmgr.tar.gz will go if
I take in any other .dsl package at the same time). Anything else I should be worrying about??

One minor thing; my laptop fails to shutdown/reboot after the system is made writable. It gets almost
all of the way but just as it should turn off, complains;

INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

(not a big problem, the big 'off' button still works fine......)

The 0.7 is a real masterpiece.

I do not need to do anything to improve it by means to add more stuff tothe CD as before with the former ones.

Congratulations and thanks for the better CD burner.

*/Teobromina/*

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