Damn Small Linux Help?

[maliomladinac]

Im new in this. Can some one help me with DSL? How can i install apps on it? Where can i find some apps? I need some kind of tutorial for all there is to know on DSL...

[volkswagner]

getting called away. You can install apt-get.

research it.

see ya

[kerry_s]

Im new in this. Can some one help me with DSL? How can i install apps on it? Where can i find some apps? I need some kind of tutorial for all there is to know on DSL...

dsl has it's own package system, i think it's called dsl browser or mydsl, something like that.

look here: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[zmjjmz]

Two ways to install stuff in DSL:
A) apt-get --- You can enable it if you hunt through those menus. It works and is nice, but the software is dated. (hint: You can use apt-cache search "program" to find programs)
B) MyDSL --- I have no clue how to use it, just look at their wiki or something.

[maliomladinac]

I have tried to figure out MyDSL,and i downloaded some apps. They are auto installed but i cant start them...I found the option enable apt or something like that but i dont know how to use it? I only managed to start the MPlayer but the video is in frames,the sound goes but the video is buging...

[maliomladinac]

Hey? Anyone? Help? Why i can`t start amsn? I download-ed from MyDSL-> Net...There is an icon but nothing is hapening when i click on it...

[Sorivenul]

Older versions of aMSN have been broken by the recent protocol upgrade. Check the post here for a bit more info/help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=891810

[maliomladinac]

Ok,thx. But why dont the other apps work??? They are not responding just like amsn...LimeWire,CTorrent........???

[Sorivenul]

Ok,thx. But why dont the other apps work??? They are not responding just like amsn...LimeWire,CTorrent........???
Sorry, no clue there. I've never had good luck with DSL on any machine I've owned. Nothing against it, it just hasn't worked right with my hardware. Another distribution may work better for you, as well. Just my two cents. Good luck!

[snowpine]

You might want to try asking your question over at the DSL forum too: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi

DSL does not use the Ubuntu repositories, so you should not expect all of the same apps/packages to be available in the same way...

Good luck!

[Twitch6000]

I have DSL in a VM so I can tell you everything I know about it.
I know when you enable apt-get you get an old apt-get.
I know that when you install programs that all go into certain areas like apps,system tools,etc...
The problem I always had was Getting Flash :(.
I think your best bet is to go on the DSL forum and ask the best way you can what you want.
Give them a list and they will tell you what to do.

[maliomladinac]

That would be easy but there is one problem...I cant post a new topic on DSL Forum and i didnt find any posts that could help me....I registered and did everything right... What distro would you recomend me for a desktop computer 533mhz,256mb RAM,10GB HDD...I need some OS that i could run Asterisk on it...thx

[tel93]

That would be easy but there is one problem...I cant post a new topic on DSL Forum and i didnt find any posts that could help me....I registered and did everything right... What distro would you recomend me for a desktop computer 533mhz,256mb RAM,10GB HDD...I need some OS that i could run Asterisk on it...thx

Debian or Arch with Openbox or IceWM or WMaker (not that horrible, bloated, slow thing people call Fluxbox).

[Sorivenul]

Debian or Arch with Openbox or IceWM or WMaker (not that horrible, bloated, slow thing people call Fluxbox).
+1 for Debian. Also give a look at SliTaz, great little distribution, and it runs Asterisk.

[Twitch6000]

That would be easy but there is one problem...I cant post a new topic on DSL Forum and i didnt find any posts that could help me....I registered and did everything right... What distro would you recomend me for a desktop computer 533mhz,256mb RAM,10GB HDD...I need some OS that i could run Asterisk on it...thx

Puppy Linux,Arch,and/or Debian.
All of these using open box or icewm.

[mikjp]

That would be easy but there is one problem...I cant post a new topic on DSL Forum and i didnt find any posts that could help me....I registered and did everything right... What distro would you recomend me for a desktop computer 533mhz,256mb RAM,10GB HDD...I need some OS that i could run Asterisk on it...thx

Debian, Slacware, Zenwalk or VectorLinux. See the introduction top 10 lightweight distros (http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-10-of-lightweight-linux_24.html). I suggest using IceWM as window manager. Just wrote a tutorial to it, see this (http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/2008/08/short-icewm-tutorial.html).

mikko