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Looks like libgtk-3 needs a rebuild in CorePlus 12.0 x86

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cparke:
Hi Rich,

Yes, I am doing a straight boot off the read-only ISO.  I see the installer downloads the newer version 2.36 of the akt.tcz package, and later insists it is "already installed", but looking at the actual library file, it remains unchanged on version 2.34. 

This machine is a Pentium III laptop with no hard drive space left and USB 1.0 ports, so I am trying to find out if there is anything better than running Windows XP for it.  Recent widespread adoption of SSE2 in 32-bit binary builds has been particularly a problem, so I need a quick and easy way to check out if a Linux distro will be usable for my purposes of this laptop (mainly as a graphical terminal, but possibly also for some local web browsing using a lightweight browser like Falkon).

Every other Linux distribution that I have ever tried creates an writable overlay on top of the live file system, to allow for changes and additions to the base release like this, even if that overlay is just held on a ram disk.  It seems, however, that TinyCore doesn't provide something similar out of the box?  I haven't been able to look at the WIKI yet for how the live CD and packages system works with TinyCore, particularly because it is password protected?

jazzbiker:
Hi, cparke!

You can find wiki snapshot at http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=welcome

Have a nice Core!

Rich:
Hi cparke
A mirror to the Wiki can be found here:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=welcome

Rich:
Hi cparke

--- Quote from: cparke on April 14, 2021, 02:42:10 PM --- ... This machine is a Pentium III laptop with no hard drive space left and USB 1.0 ports, ...
--- End quote ---
So you can't boot from your USB ports, but can still read/write to a thumb drive with them, right?

Do an install to a thumb drive. This way you will have a writable  tce  directory.
Leave the thumb drive plugged in and the CD in the machine and reboot.
When the boot loader menu appears, hit  Tab.  Select the line that contains the  cde  boot code. Delete the  cde  boot code
and continue the boot process.
When Tinycore boots, it will now search for a  tce  directory, which it should find on the thumb drive. It will now proceed
to load extensions from the thumb drive.

Now update your system. Open a terminal and run these commands:

--- Code: ---tce-audit builddb
tce-audit updatedeps
tce-audit fetchmissing
tce-update
--- End code ---

Then reboot and remove the  sdc  boot code like before.

When the system comes up, use the  Apps  utility to install  remmina.  It will be saved to the thumb drive. Now you
should be able to see if  remmina  runs on your hardware.

Booting from a CD is slow. Loading extensions through a USB 1.0 port is slow. Deleting the  cde  boot code is a nuisance.
We can address optimizing these issues later. This is just a test to see if things run on your hardware.

Juanito:
CorePlus iso rebuilt and reposted

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