Hi > I'm a user of Toutou Linux, a french distro based on the famous OS Puppy > Linux. Indeed, my old laptop doesn't run new Linux OS (Debian, Ubuntu, > etc...) and I decided to choose this OS. > But here is my problem, this distro has its own Packet Manager, which is > named PupGet, and I didn't saw that xboard was compatible on this kind > of OS. > Is your dev-team able to compile it and then add it to the repository of > Puppy Linux? [...]
If you have the necessary libraries installed (they most likely will be available in your distribution), you should be able to download the tar-ball of the latest release[1] and just run configure make make install to get xboard running on your computer. According to [2]: "The Puppy Package Manager Also known just as the PPM. This provides you with a very nice GUI for installing packages, either Puppy's own PET packages or those of some other distro (such as Debian/Ubuntu .deb packages)." It seems that you can install .deb packages. Xboard can be downloaded as a .deb package from [3] or [4]. If you want to create your own PET package we are happy to help you in case you run into issues that need to get fixed in xboard or other problems that come up while running the configure script... but I don't think we can help you in creating the package itself. There are some instructions at [5] on how to do this, perhaps you want to give it a try? In case you succeed, I'm happy to add a link on our homepage to the .pet package. regards Arun [1] ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ [2] http://www.puppylinux.com/development/package-management.htm [3] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xboard [4] http://packages.debian.org/sid/xboard [5] http://www.puppylinux.com/development/createpet.htm
