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abiword.tce HOWTO: temporary "solution" using Puppy 4 repos

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mcewanw:

--- Quote from: softwaregurl on April 30, 2009, 03:12:50 PM ---Shortcut may be rename *.pet *.tce.

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Yes, I tried that again because I couldn't see why it didn't work when I first tried it either ... [EDIT: Oh... No it didn't work, I must have performed another step. The reason simply renaming a pet to a tce doesn't work is that a tce tars up everything relative to "/" whereas a pet tars up everything relative to the filename of the pet (with "/" folders, such as "usr" as subdirectories of that)]

It is, in any case, always best to at least look inside the dotpet first to make sure you won't be overwriting anything already on your system (i.e. use with care!): tar -tf filename.pet | less

Even when you spot a clash you can always uncompress the dotpet with tar xzvf, remove any duplication and recompress with tar czvf before using the archive as a tce.

hairywill:

--- Quote from: mcewanw on April 30, 2009, 06:29:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: softwaregurl on April 30, 2009, 03:12:50 PM ---
--- Quote ---Dotpets are really just .tar.gz archives
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Havn't tryed, but if this is the case so are tce's.  Shortcut may be rename *.pet *.tce.

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Yes, I did try that originally, but was surprised to find it didn't seem to work.
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[delurk]
The dotpet format consists of a tgz with its md5 (i think) hash appended to the end. If you try using tar -x on a dotpet it will extract the contents but will also give a error, it may be that this is what is upsetting tc.
[relurk]

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