Learning how to package programs for pclinuxos on virtualbox possible???

[eor2004]

Hi friends, I'm starting to get interested in learning how to package computer programs for pclinuxos, can someone interested in learning how to package use an installation of pclinuxos on virtualbox???

[TerryN]

Hi friends, I'm starting to get interested in learning how to package computer programs for pclinuxos, can someone interested in learning how to package use an installation of pclinuxos on virtualbox???

Yes.  That's probably how most of us do it to avoid cluttering up our "main" systems with build packages and to be able to have both 32 and 64 bit environments available without rebooting.  The only downside is you need plenty of RAM otherwise it can be sloooow 

Terry.

[kc1di]

Hi friends, I'm starting to get interested in learning how to package computer programs for pclinuxos, can someone interested in learning how to package use an installation of pclinuxos on virtualbox???

Hi,
I think it's great you want to learn packaging as the dev's will tell you they need all the packagers they can get.  
you should read this thread and the two links to the PCLOS magazine articles that should get you a start.

Thread:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,106938.0.html
Mag articles:
http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200907/page08.html
http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201007/page15.html

another one to read :
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,55194.0.html

good luck

[TerryN]

Also worth reading

http://pclinuxoshelp.com/index.php/Packaging_for_PCLinuxOS

as it is more up-to-date.

Terry

[eor2004]

Hi friends, I'm starting to get interested in learning how to package computer programs for pclinuxos, can someone interested in learning how to package use an installation of pclinuxos on virtualbox???

Yes.  That's probably how most of us do it to avoid cluttering up our "main" systems with build packages and to be able to have both 32 and 64 bit environments available without rebooting.  The only downside is you need plenty of RAM otherwise it can be sloooow 

Terry.

Hi Terry, right now my main OS is pclinuxos kde 2013 with 2GB of ram and it does run very well, so I was thinking of making a Virtualbox kde install and giving it 1GB of ram to see how it runs, do you think 1GB is good enough for packaging???

[sling-shot]

I am learning packaging too albeit very slowly.
I use both setups - direct on my slow laptop and virtualbox on the relatively faster desktop.
I have allotted 1 GB RAM to virtual machine and a 1 GB swap inside virtual harddisk.

As the recommended packaging setup is MiniMe lacks in many useful apps, it becomes frustrating for multitaskers. And you are advised not to install unnecessary applications for fear of corrupting the packaging setup. Virtual machine inside a full KDE install lets me have the best of both worlds.

[TerryN]

do you think 1GB is good enough for packaging???

I have 1GB for 32 bit packaging and that is fine (so far).  I have found on 64 bit that I have had to go to at least 1.5GB otherwise some larger builds start paging like crazy and slow to a crawl.

Terry.

[sling-shot]

I have found on 64 bit that I have had to go to at least 1.5GB otherwise some larger builds start paging like crazy and slow to a crawl.

Terry.

Thanks for the heads-up. I have only attempted small 32-bit builds as yet.

[gseaman]

I only have 1GB physical memory, so no virtualbox for me.

Galen