Some Really basic help with TinyCore

RDM_83 again

Sorry for amazingly basic level level of my knowledge of linux (I have about a week experience using TeenPUP very badly)

Anyway I installed TinyCore yesterday and its working like a dream for what I need (running opera and seamonkey and using google docs) and didn't even have much of a problem getting the wireless working.

However my problem is for some reason I can not get Foxit to work, it doesn't open when I select it from OnDemand applications and when I set it too be OnBoot it doesn't appear in the options.
My linux knowledge is so basic i don't know how to get into the file system to delete the files to try reinstalling the app.


ps using live cd with save area on mounted hard drive.

pps have got other pdf reader to work but text is horrible and nearly unreadable (its called epdfview)
Sorry if this isn't clear

the_real_dave

When you say Foxit, I presume this came presupplied, and wasn't a program you installed by yourself? I would have thought Foxit to be a Windows only program.

Try running it from a terminal window. Find a terminal program (there's bound to be one installed, such as terminator, uxterm, lxterm etc) which will look similar to a command prompt in Windows, type foxit (or Foxit perhaps), and press enter.

Foxit should run. If not, you should still get some output in the terminal, which you should paste here. It will help solve your problem

RDM_83 again

Sorry thinking about it this should probably have been put in open source.
Thanks for the advice but I found another program that works fine for pdfs and actually opens but your advice will be usefull as I plan to keep toying with it (have since decided to just run Puppylinux again as getting sound card working in Tinycore seemed like a lot of hastle)
There is Foxit for linux works pretty well as far as I can see