can frostwire be installed on tinycore?

[ejames82]

hello,

a few months ago I made an attempt to install frostwire on tinycore.  I can't recall whether the original file was a tar.gz or a tar.bz2, but I am pretty sure it was a tar compressed file.  here below, I investigated the contents of the opened folder. 
I have installed tar files before, but they had a file with a .sh extension.  these files are either .jar or no extension at all.

tc@box:~$ cd /home/tc/frostwire
tc@box:~/frostwire-5.7.1.noarch$ ls
COPYING                       jaudiotagger.jar
EULA.txt                      lucene-3.5.0.jar
VERSION                       lw-alexandria.jar
changelog                     lw-common.jar
commons-logging.jar           lw-jdownloader.jar
frostwire                     lw-osx_stub.jar
frostwire.desktop             lw-resources.jar
frostwire.jar                 lw-setting.jar
gettext-commons.jar           messages.jar
gson-1.4.jar                  metadata-extractor-2.6.2.jar
h2-1.3.164.jar                mp4parser.jar
httpclient-4.0.jar            slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar
httpcore-4.0.1.jar            slf4j-jdk14-1.7.5.jar
tc@box:~/frostwire-5.7.1.noarch$ file frostwire
sh: file: not found
tc@box:~/frostwire-5.7.1.noarch$

can this be installed?
any insight or advice would be most appreciated.

[gerald_clark]

That is a java program, not a shell script.

[ejames82]

hello gerald_clark,

so are you saying that I got the wrong software to start with?

could a deb file be made to work?  they also offer one of those.

thanks for the quick reply as always.

[ejames82]

I installed open-jdk-7
will this make it possible to install frostwire now?

[gerald_clark]

Core is not a normal distro.  It is a toolkit.
If you are not a developer, you should stick to the available extensions, or
post an extension request in the appropriate forum.

You might look a dcore if you want to use debian repositories.
Information for dcore is in the dcore subforum.

[ejames82]

I agree.  most of the time I get lucky and things go well with tinycore.  this is not one of those times.

I will check out dcore (I wasn't even aware it existed).  who knows, maybe I will install frostwire after all.

sorry I was in the wrong forum.  I'll try not to let that happen again.
much thanks gerald_clark.

[bmarkus]

If it is a JAVA application it must work on TC. Just find out how to start it.

[gerald_clark]

If it is a JAVA application it must work on TC. Just find out how to start it.

IF you have the compatible JRE installed.

Then you face the issue of persistence.  An extension must be created or the application must be backed up or installed on a persistent drive.

[Rich]

Hi ejames82
Take a look inside the  frostwire.desktop  file. There should be a line that begins with  Exec=  which would show the command used
to start it.

[ejames82]

I have read all of the replies since my last.  for the record, my TC version is 3.8.4 (the last 3 version).
I am investigating all of your suggestions and I will see what I can do.  much appreciated. 
I will let you know.  thanks.

[gerald_clark]

TC 3 is very old and not maintained.
I would recommend V4 for the most extensions, and V5 for more support for newer hardware.

[ejames82]

I agree, gerald_clark.  I tried version 4 a few months ago, but kept running into difficulty with the install.  I did post about my problems here on the forum.  now I have a quad-boot computer with xp, win7, OS4 and tinycore with grub and grub4dos to boot everything and it was a miracle that I got it to work.  I don't dare to try to reinstall.  I don't think it would work.  even if the install worked, the booting issues are even more finicky.

if it was just tinycore by itself on the computer, I would have no reservations whatsoever.  in fact, I may try that later on a different computer.

I will try to get the jre that you mentioned earlier.

[ejames82]

Rich,

I was able to open frostwire.desktop with vi.  here is the output:


[Desktop Entry]                                                                 
Version=1.0                                                                     
Name=FrostWire                                                                 
GenericName=P2P Bittorrent client                                               
GenericName[es]=Cliente Bittorrent Usuario-a-usuario                           
Comment=Search and explore all kinds of files on the Bittorrent network         
Comment[es]=Busque y explore todo tipo de archivos en la red Bittorrent         
Exec=/usr/bin/frostwire %u                                                     
Icon=frostwire                                                                 
Terminal=false                                                                 
Type=Application                                                               
Categories=Application;Network;                                                 
MimeType=application/x-bittorrent;x-scheme-handler/magnet;                     
                                                                               
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- frostwire.desktop 1/14 7%


thanks

[ejames82]

I think I am going to heed gerald_clark's advice and consider other options.  I thought I had openjdk, both jre and jdk versions set to survive a reboot, but it didn't work. 
from what I have read in several threads, only the oracle java works in many applications and where I went to get the oracle java they wanted me to create an account which I would rather not do.  they ask for quite a bit, anybody knows who has registered there.

I'll try this again on a different computer where I can start with the latest tinycore and things can be right from the get-go instead of using a version that I can't risk messing up.

thanks for the replies.