HD Install :: dependencies, how to get around them, and others

i think that reading the deb-to-dsl howto in the wiki will answer many of your questions. they are NOT stupid questions....but the REAL yoda would already have checked the wiki....:D

torp

I could swear that someone already made a custom DSL with wine. You might check the list in the home page. If you can find that it will no doubt save you a lot of time.

Also, here is another distro that comes with wine preinstalled. It's pretty interesting:

http://videolinux.net/page.php?7

cmanb: it's a problem with synaptic, i click install, it blinks, says it will install, and then blinks again saying it won't, "blinks" is a bad word though... anyways, that is the problem. thank you for the grep hint. i downloaded limewire, i downloaded it as a myDSL extension, and it won't install, that is the problem i'm having with it. i haven't actually tried downloading any extensions from my browser yet. and i have for the most part figured out how to use emelfm and i have never gotten a success message after installing something.and sorry about the frayed inspecific nature of the post :P i figured it was pretty structured, but looking at the enormous amount of things to know about linux, it was...

mikshaw: thank you for the different directories. and what i meant by click on them was clicking on them, trying to install them, or open them, whichever be the case for that specific file.

torp: yea, the REAL Yoda would have, and the fake Yoda (i.e me) was tired and wanted to ask questions instead of wading through it.

doobit: that distro looks pretty cool, unfortunately i won't be able to download it. no offence to DSL users and such, but installing it was a last ditch effort, i wanted to try something new, and ubuntu was too hard to setup the modem (i know, that is sad...) anyways, now that i have installed it, i like it, and will continue to use it, thank you everyone for your help with my problems, and i leave off with one more question, how does one get a program to load at startup?

uhm... double post, didn't see a way to delete this one... just decided to edit it

The dsl extentions don't actually need to be installed. They ship installed in a way, because the directory structure is buitl ito them my the person that makes the package. All you do is "load" them. That seems to be a foreign concept to most experienced Linux users, but it's an extremely easy thing to people who are new to computers in general. Copy the dsl or uci to the / directory (The top directory of your boot media) and put

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dsl mydsl=xxxx

where xxxx is that drive or partitio, in the boot command line, or in the boot command line of your lilo or grub bootloader, and those apps will load automatically. Some apps have dependancies (the info files will tell you which ones), but the dependancies will also be dsl extentions, so put them in the / directory as well. DSL-2.3 has the option of creating a /mydsl directory to put the apps in, but putting them in the top directory will override that.

I hope that my explanation is easy to understand.

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