tawalker

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Posted: May 19 2006,20:07 |
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I'm rather a fan of dockapps, and was a little miffed when most of them were removed from the last few versions of DSL! The great thing is, there are quite a few dockapps available as MyDSL extensions, and it's even possible to 'roll your own' MyDSLs by compiling from the source code. I did this with a couple of dockapps which I really wanted to add to my pendrive DSL system (wmbinclock was one), and in a nutshell, here's how:
- I have another Linux box at home, so I compiled the dockapp binary on there; it helps if the app doesn't have much in the way of dependencies, so it can stand on its own. - Once I installed the app onto the system, I made a tarball of the executable, which ISTR usually ended up in /usr/bin/. The full path must be stored in the .tar.gz archive for the rest to work. - This is the key to getting the app to install in DSL with the MyDSL packages: rename the file from '*.tar.gz' to '*.dsl', and place it in the same location as the other packages.
Hope this helps someone else - please let me know if anyone wants the wmbinclock package I made, and I'll see what I can do.
Tim
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