AOL on Linux
 

Hi everyone... New to these board. Have been trying to find the answer to this question and I hope someone here can help...

I have AOL. Ok, there I said it... I have Dial up AOL. eeeck.. I know.. I'm sorry.. I have a broadband connection at work though, which is how I have been getting most of my files. DL'ing them at work and putting them onto my USBkey, USBkey to the laptop and transfer files over that way...

Ok.. so I have feather installed, kicks but, love it.. great. But with all I've read over the last few weeks, it apparent to me that most Live Linux CD distributions require an internet connection of some type in order to completely install themselves onto the hard drive.. I ran dpkg-get and it appears to have installed it self correctly. At the end of the script it tries to do apt-update but it cant because, well, I have no connection...

So I have the AOL on Linux program called penggy. It file name is, penggy_0.r.1-3_i386.deb... I ran dpkg -i penggy_0.r.1-3_i386.deb and got

dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory

What do I do?? What are my options for getting apt-get to update? Hoping someone can help...

chip...

Hi Chip,
Did you sort this out? The dpkg program I don't know
but presumably this needs to be fixed.
But penggy is nice; works well - keep trying!
Bill

im not too familiar with feather, but i have used DSL (Damn small linux) and had similar probs.

Turns out that DSL dosent include a part of the dpkg on the iso (This is to reduce size)

turning to the DSL website i quickly found the .tar.gz and downloaded it.

So to answer your question, heres the link i found on the feather site

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/download.htm

you want the dpkg structure

hope ive helped and good luck