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jpeters

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:23

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 25 2007,09:52)

The command will probably (but not definitely) be /opt/myapp/bin/myapp, but you may need to refer to the myapp.uci.info file in case there are some special steps to perform.

Interesting. The app is firefox-1.5.0.6.uci. Using xterm, if I "cd /opt/firefox-1.5.0.1" and then try loading, "firefox", I get no access priviledge errors and it defaults to loading the old version of firefox. If I do it in one step, "/opt/firefox-1.5.0.6/firefox", it loads.

Trying out a symlink gets the same result as doing the cd 2 step (sounds like a dance, doesn't it?)

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:57

If you chose to ignore the menu item and/or the icon, then I would sugguest to learn about PATHs. Standard *nix stuff.

If you decide to naviagte down to the firefox in /opt then it would be
./firefox to execute the local copy. Otherwise the firefox in your PATH will be executed. For search order of your PATH type

echo $PATH

Without specifying full path or relative path then first one found wins.

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,04:12

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 25 2007,22:57)

Thanks Roberts, ./firefox it is! (this isn't MS DOS, right?)

PS. There is no menu item or icon, which is what this thread is all about.

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,04:30

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 25 2007,09:52)

probably depends upon the application itself.

I also tried installing gtk2-0705.dsl via "dsl-load" in bootlocal.sh. It worked fine for some apts and not others. For example, gnucash loaded, but firefox-1.5.0.6 would not. (both require gtk2 libraries).
Firefox-1.5.0.6 works fine if gtk2-0705 is loaded from within emelflm.

EDIT: I substituted firefox-2.0-gtk1.uci, loading from bootlocal; loaded with an icon and all!

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,06:27

Then this thread is mis-titled, as this has nothing to do with mydsl-load.

Are there really that many new extenions that do not even offer an menu item?

The purpose of the testing area is for just such purpose.
To report back to the user who contributed the extension, that which still needs to be tweaked.

Extensions are put together by user community.
It is also a community process to test and provide feedback to their creator.

Having a thread with extension work-arounds, does not make good extensions.

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