Wow! What a superb piece of software. To think I've been using AvantGo all 
this time. How wonderful to be able to load in pages from my own PC - photos 
of the family, personal documents etc. etc. Plus all the web to go at too.

You bravely said you'd like feedback so I thought I'd offer you my experieces 
of getting it going on a Debian distro:

The main Debian repository has plucker but not plucker-desktop at the moment.
1) I downloaded the binary rpms for plucker (Debian was still at 1.4) and 
plucker-desktop.
2) (as root) I used alien -d plucker*.rpm to convert the rpms to debs and then 
installed them as usual
3) For me (version 1.6) the converted plucker package didn't install /usr/bin 
symbolic links to the python scripts (the 'proper' Debian package has them, 
eg plucker-build)
4) The help files aren't unpacked. They are in /usr/share/doc/packages/
plucker-desktop as htb.gz files which need to be unpacked to htb files
5) For me it wouldn't convert images - 
Error:  Runtime error parsing document http://www..../banner.jpg: Error while 
opening image http://www..../banner.jpg with netpbm
  Parsing failed.
The solution was to download the python-imaging package and put this line into 
the ~/.pluckerrc file:
image_parser = pil2
6) I never did get the pilot-xfer connection to work, but as I use JPilot I 
just let it copy the files to a directory and then told JPilot to install 
them at the next sync (echo "file.name" >> ~/.jpilot/jpilot_to_install)

Now it's all working wonderfully so there's no stopping me!

Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone

Peter

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