myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: New Extensions in Testing - Jan 2005

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" .dsl AND .tar.gz "

Here's a thread to start..
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin.....tar.gz

..and for scribus, here are some other threads/discussions
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....bcd6b05

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ke4nt

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Why are there both tar.gz. and .dsl extensions. i read that .dsl are the tar.gz files with the extension renamed .dsl

I'm going to try to answer this before Kent sees it....

The extension's extensions are different because of the way they are installed. The mydsl-install script checks the extension to decide whether or not to run mkwriteable first (opens up more of the system for writing). If the extension is *tar.gz, mkwritable is not run, and the package is limited to writing in /opt, /tmp, and /home. This saves precious memory usage and prevents overwriting of vital system files.

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Dang....still too slow.
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scribus works fine under debian. I work with it in my dsl. Have a look at debian.org(packages). But its hard to install the new version 1.20 it, you need a lot of files (libs, ghostscript, etc...) and get a lot of errors and problems...

mikshaw..

Yours was better...

Kent

Quote (mikshaw @ Jan. 12 2005,13:40)

Thanks mikshaw,
I understand.

I also realised that Scribus has a LOT of dependencies. To make a scribus.dsl will be a lot of work. It is available in Knoppix.

I now understand that as far as the live CD is concerned, to preserve memory/resources the best/efficient is
.uci
tar.gz
dsl

in that order.

Thanks everyone!

Now to make my own extensions - starting small of course. It will be nice if someone does a how to do this with a real application as an example. I will start searching first :-)

A real example is worth a thousand descriptions....

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