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tce loaded successfully? ...minefield? oo2? opera-locals?

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enirom:
I have loaded tiny core linux on a flash stick and successfully
booted a few different netbooks. The flash stick also contains a tce dir
for tce packages. Mounting the tce dir and doing a local install seems to load
the package.

TCEs are still a mystery....

Using the apps browser and doing a local install generates a pop up
that the program is loaded. How do I know what file to invoke a package?
cfdisk seems to get loaded and execute "cfdisk" but other
more complicated packages are a problem. compiletc does list the
executables in info and a quick test of gcc indicates that it is loaded properly.

When I local install minefield, an icon appears but nothing seems to
happen if I right, left, single, or double click on it. Is there a set up or config
that needs to be set? When I loaded minefield, a windows did appear to open
but it closed quickly.

The OpenOffice tce has the same behavior (didn't see a window open and close quickly)...

roberts:
You should not have to perform a 'local install', try adding waitusb=5 to your boot options.
Most extensions should provide a menu iterm, right click on the desktop and look in Apps.
If an extension appears to fail, i.e., window flashes and is gone. Try opening an Xshell and issue the command there. That might produce an error and you can report it here. If you are using all .tce types note that they load into memory. Minefield and oo2 are both huge. Might be you are out of memory. You may want to try tcz version(s). These are mounted and therefore use way less memory.

enirom:
"Most extensions should provide a menu iterm"

can you point me to more info regarding iterm?

"Try opening an Xshell and issue the command there"
What command? ...minefield?

"Might be you are out of memory"
This netbook has 1G of ram.

"You may want to try tcz version(s). These are mounted and therefore use way less memory."
Is a tcz slower? Is it compressed? I assumed that both tce and tcez were loaded into memory. Is the tce loaded into ram and the tcz loaded into the
filesystem that is created out of ram?

enirom:
I found the executable and invoked it from an xterm window.
The browser .list suggestion made it very easy.

The error generated indicates that libgtk is needed. Is the a tce for this lib?
Are there other dependencies to consider?

Juanito:
If you read the .info file for the various extensions, it will explain what other extensions they depend upon - for instance oo2.tcel depends on expat2.tcel, fontconfig.tcel & libxml2.tcel, so you need to load these before trying to run oo2.

If you use the appbrowser to download extensions, it will automatically download the dependencies.

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