Installing GTK and SDL on DSL without internet functions.

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:04 am

Hello,

I installed DamnSmallLinux on my 3rd PC, but it has no internet connection, so I need to know what things I need to install gtk and sdl inclusive their devel libs (it's always saying it's depending on other libs.) and I don't know in which order I need to install them. Does anyone have such a list?

[EDIT]
Uhm yeh, have to explain what "...without internet functions." means: no apt-get, no other commands which download the libs. Just alien or dpkg or mydsl-load or such.

Thanks for any answers.

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:25 am

apt does not need an internet-connection. Just edit your sources. It is possible, to define a local repository.
But I guess it will be really hard to get all those packages..., even if you have them in *.deb or *.pkg.

Why DSL?

Regarding the list: best use an PC with internet and do an apt-get with the Gtk and sdl. Maybe you can | the output to a file. Then you definitely know which files you need.
Than create a local repo and apt should swallow the files in the right order.

This is the way I would try it...

An easier possibility would be to use a Debian-DVD and use it as source (if DSL swallows it). I've got a Debian-Sarge-DVD here and as far as I know nearly every package I need for PB is included.

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:59 am

Hello,

Just edit your sources.

What sources?

Why DSL?

It's the Linux distro which runs on my P II 300MHz, all others like Knoppix don't, even with commandline "knoppix desktop=xfce lang=de screen=800x600 depth=16" it doesn't run anymore(it always says the cd drive times out or such, but on my damnsmalllinux it doesn't).

I can't install any other linux on a other pc, because I need their windows OS and the files.

WishMaster · Post by **WishMaster** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:02 pm

Look here for GTK: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributio ... mydsl/gtk2

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:09 pm

Thanks Wishmaster, but there are just tools which use gtk. I especially need the gtk 1.2 and sdl 1.2 versions.

WishMaster · Post by **WishMaster** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:28 pm

> but there are just tools which use gtk
Look again. There's a file called "gtk2-0705.dsl".

BTW:
That's interesting

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forum ... +and+devel

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:16 pm

Quote:
Just edit your sources.

What sources?

Your Sources.list in /etc/apt.

Then you can "apt" a directory on your machine and apt chooses the right packages in the right order (if they're avaliable).

It's the Linux distro which runs on my P II 300MHz, all others like Knoppix don't, even with commandline "knoppix desktop=xfce lang=de screen=800x600 depth=16" it doesn't run anymore(it always says the cd drive times out or such, but on my damnsmalllinux it doesn't).

There is no reason for this. Anyway you could install for example "Mandrake 10.1" and use Fluxbox or Fwm.

But I guess DSL is quite a good distro, since I read an article in a Mag about it, besides writing this post.
Meanwhile it has a "cute and tiny" package manager....

How do you get those packages onto the machine? Burn them on a CD and then load it in DSL from /mnt/cdrom ?
Or use .pkg instead of .deb ?

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:44 pm

Thanks, I will try it in the next days.

bembulak wrote:How do you get those packages onto the machine? Burn them on a CD and then load it in DSL from /mnt/cdrom ?
Or use .pkg instead of .deb ?

.deb and yes I burn them on the cd, but how do I get all those packages down to a cd?

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:08 pm

If you have another machine running, which swallows .deb-packages, there must be an option to tell "apt" just to download the files, but not installing them.
So an "apt-get install -XXX sdl-devel" or something should work! (where XXX is a Flag for "just download, but don't install").
RTM

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:05 am

Well he obviously only has 1 Linux box