Wording - Download Howto Using Appbrowser

[bmarkus]

On page http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/ last menu item is

'Download Howto Using Appbrowser'

It indicates a download link, that something will be downloaded when click. Would be good to change to

'Howto manage extensions with Appbrowser'

or something like that.

[OldAdamUser2]

I agree. Furthermore, it might be nice to have a link directing people to a location from which they can download extensions without using Appbrowser.

Users without acccess to an ethernet connection may need to download some extensions (particularly those necessary to establish a wifi connection). Here is the relevant link, I believe:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz_backup/

[Juanito]

No, the link is http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz then the extension name, for example emelfm.tcz

[Jason W]

tcz_backup was the backup used when last converting the repo, I will remove it.

[OldAdamUser2]

tcz_backup was the backup used when last converting the repo, I will remove it.

So in that case there is NO place to download extensions without using appbrowser. Is that what you want?

[OldAdamUser2]

When I do to--
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/emelfm.tcz

I get this response

Not Found

The requested URL /pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/emelfm.tcz was not found on this server.
Apache Server at distro.ibiblio.org Port 80

[Juanito]

That's because it should be:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz/emelfm.tcz

[OldAdamUser2]

Thanks.

Note that when you click on the address you listed previously--

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz

you are actually taken to--

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/

which is why it didn't work when I added emelfm.tcz at the end, as instructed. I didn't realize that the link I was given would take me to the wrong link.

[Jason W]

We do discourage using a web browser to download extensions, mostly for issues with dependencies that arise.  But if you must grab extensions while running another distro to get a network connection set up, then I posted a little script in the programming and scripting section that should make it easier.

[OldAdamUser2]

Excellent! I will test it and then try to draft something for the wiki so that people with netbooks and no ethernet line know what to do. I'll make sure that I try to get your input on whatever I come to write.