Archiver not working? Missing package?
Posted: 27 Jul 2012, 19:06
Hi,
First of all, I love Porteus. Keep up the good work.
I am an internet cafe owner and I use a multiboot USB for my tools. I keep another lightweight distro on that USB for emergencies and yesterday, I finally got to make full use of it. Unfortunately, I found the environment too "alien" to work with; the task that I thought was simple took me an hour. So today, in search of another lightweight distro, I found Porteus.
So using some google-fu, I added Porteus into my multiboot USB (using grub4dos which was already there). Then to test Porteus, I decided to do some "real work" on it: edited my menu.lst and added a splash image onto the USB. That's when my issues started.
By the way, I added the cheatcode "toroot" on my Porteus install. I'm spoiled by Windows so I prefer not to be always bothered by the root password.
So there was the image already converted into .xpm. I right click on it in Thunar, and click "create archive." It gave me an error, something like no suitable archiver. Weird.
So I went to look for it in the menu. "Squeeze" seemed aptly named so I opened that and dragged the .xpm image into it... nothing! I click on the "Create Archive" button... no file was created, but the title bar says "Squeeze - file.gz" So ok, I thought, maybe I need to manually add the file... but after navigating to the file, clicking the "Add" button just made the dialog disappear. There is no file listed in Squeeze. Tried it again and again... no luck.
Finally, I went to the Package Manager and added "fsArchiver" from the list. It downloaded, and activated... but where is it? It is nowhere listed in the menus. Right clicking on the image file again to "create archive" gives the same error.
Out of frustration, I went back to Windows and finished the task in less than 5 minutes. Then I found I want to improve the contrast of the image a bit, decided to try the task again in Porteus.
Same problems, logged in as root. Out of curiosity, I logged out, logged in as guest, the "create archive" option in Thunar worked! But I still cannot create a .gz file of the .xpm in Squeeze. Though a managed to create a .tar.gz file. But they aren't the same, are they?
fsArchiver is still not listed in my menus. But it is still there in the modules folder, and it is still "activated."
What is going on?
First of all, I love Porteus. Keep up the good work.
I am an internet cafe owner and I use a multiboot USB for my tools. I keep another lightweight distro on that USB for emergencies and yesterday, I finally got to make full use of it. Unfortunately, I found the environment too "alien" to work with; the task that I thought was simple took me an hour. So today, in search of another lightweight distro, I found Porteus.
So using some google-fu, I added Porteus into my multiboot USB (using grub4dos which was already there). Then to test Porteus, I decided to do some "real work" on it: edited my menu.lst and added a splash image onto the USB. That's when my issues started.
By the way, I added the cheatcode "toroot" on my Porteus install. I'm spoiled by Windows so I prefer not to be always bothered by the root password.
So there was the image already converted into .xpm. I right click on it in Thunar, and click "create archive." It gave me an error, something like no suitable archiver. Weird.
So I went to look for it in the menu. "Squeeze" seemed aptly named so I opened that and dragged the .xpm image into it... nothing! I click on the "Create Archive" button... no file was created, but the title bar says "Squeeze - file.gz" So ok, I thought, maybe I need to manually add the file... but after navigating to the file, clicking the "Add" button just made the dialog disappear. There is no file listed in Squeeze. Tried it again and again... no luck.
Finally, I went to the Package Manager and added "fsArchiver" from the list. It downloaded, and activated... but where is it? It is nowhere listed in the menus. Right clicking on the image file again to "create archive" gives the same error.
Out of frustration, I went back to Windows and finished the task in less than 5 minutes. Then I found I want to improve the contrast of the image a bit, decided to try the task again in Porteus.
Same problems, logged in as root. Out of curiosity, I logged out, logged in as guest, the "create archive" option in Thunar worked! But I still cannot create a .gz file of the .xpm in Squeeze. Though a managed to create a .tar.gz file. But they aren't the same, are they?
fsArchiver is still not listed in my menus. But it is still there in the modules folder, and it is still "activated."
What is going on?