Slackware :: Rethinking The Description During Install?
Mar 16, 2011
Back in the days of slow machines, displaying the package description during an install provided for some reading to break up the boredom (if one was inspired to sit there and watch it do the install). Now days, the descriptions just fly by, several a second most of the time (unless doing things manually). Do we really need this anymore? It's unreadable.
I'd rather see a list of packages being installed scroll by, one package name per line (with size info). Even that might get hard to read during the buzz of small packages being installed causing rapid scrolls.
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May 28, 2011
When i create a slackware package, with the tool makepkg, the resulting package doesnt show the description of the package in the pkgtool program.
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Jul 29, 2010
I always have just one issue making a slackware pkg using makepkg the darn install/slack-desc never "shows" and gives the package description when doing installpkg/upgradepkg on the finished package Example A I make a package today from "ranger" cli file manager heres the slack-desc
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# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line
# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on
# the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must make
# exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary to
# leave one space after the
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May 22, 2010
I was browsing Distrowatch and reading the various distro descriptions. Of course it mentions the text installer (although I really think it can be called graphical, just not X) and the vanilla packages, etc. But then I got to the last paragraph which says:Quote:
While this philosophy of simplicity has its fans, the fact is that in today's world, Slackware Linux is increasingly becoming a "core system" upon which new, custom solutions are built, rather than a complete distribution with a wide variety of supported software. The only exception is the server market, where Slackware remains popular, though even here, the distribution's complex upgrade procedure and lack of officially supported automated tools for security updates makes it increasingly uncompetitive. Slackware's conservative attitude towards the system's base components means that it requires much manual post-installation work before it can be tuned into a modern desktop system.
I know that many of these things are the typical idea of slackware, but I was wondering if other Slackers felt it was a fair assessment. I run current and with slackpkg I don't find upgrading to be difficult in the least and while there is of course some configuration to be done, I don't find it to be particularly heavy. I mean the common extra configuration I can think of is basically alsamixer/alsactl and changing inittab if you want a graphical login. The rest is just customization which I would do with any other distro, I'd just have to use distro-specific tools to do it instead of the vanilla "most of these things will work with most other distro" that Slack uses.
Now to be fair, I'm new to linux (9 months) and started using Slackware with 13 after first using Mandriva and Ubuntu for a few months, so maybe I'm missing some history. But I was wondering if people that actually use Slackware find the quoted bit to be fair.
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May 29, 2010
PACKAGE NAME: tango-icon-theme-extras-0.1.0-noarch-1.txz
PACKAGE LOCATION: ./slackware/l
PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 64 K
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Aug 7, 2010
What the right place to report errors in package descriptions ? There are more than two dozens categories mentioned on the openSUSE "reporting a bug" web page but none of them seem to fit. The packager of the concerned rpm is bugs.opensuse.org, no email printed out when launching rpm -qpi <package name>.
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Feb 26, 2010
While installing OpenSUSE 11.2 on system with videocard with VGA/DVI outs in most cases work only DVI out. VGA out not work. Need choise what VGA or DVI out must work while installing the system.
I tried to create future request, but a have trouble with that again
At url After describing the problem (entering description) and doing request. Site give me an error "Please enter a description"
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May 25, 2011
How can I see a description of a program or read its man pages before doing apt-get install program?
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Jul 11, 2011
I have a microphone that I connected via USB. When I do dmesg it shows [37830.040274] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 How do I find out what /dev/??? identifier has been associated with the device? I want to record something using XVidCap and need to set the microphone for it to work.
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May 10, 2011
How can I know what number descriptor is used by my usb device indicate via libusb_device_handle structure ? I can't find declaration of libusb_device_handle structure. I need this information to use poll() function where I need decripttion number of device.
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Jan 16, 2011
i have dell labtop , latitude d420. i installed centos , but when the installation was over my wireless botton on my laptop off. only the bletooth button was on. Can someone help how i can install the wifi driver on my laptop using centos. i tried a series of description online but i did not succeed. i have a list here below. Can someone tell me where the wifi driver is found this list and how i can install it
[root@wisetech ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ip6table_filter 6849 1
ip6_tables 18053 1 ip6table_filter
ip_conntrack_ftp 11569 0
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Aug 20, 2009
I did an adduser to create a new account, but i forgot to add a description to the account, so it just looks like this when i look at the passwd file. how can i go back and add one? all my other accounts have descriptions after the two numbers.
testuser:x:512:512::/home/testuser:/bin/bash
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Jun 1, 2011
Displays ONLY the description text for the RPM package
how can you do it , ive read online that
"# rpm -qi " gets you all the information how can i just get description ?
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Feb 19, 2010
I'm wondering where I can find description of mpstat output?.. I'm talking about the output of all available counters presented by mpstat. For instance:
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$ mpstat -Au
Linux 2.6.31-19-generic (lenovo-S102) 02/19/10 _i686_(2 CPU)
17:32:15 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
17:32:15 all 36.00 0.18 10.39 0.73 0.08 0.03 0.00 0.00 52.60
17:32:15 0 36.81 0.15 11.58 1.14 0.16 0.04 0.00 0.00 50.11
17:32:15 1 35.26 0.22 9.31 0.34 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 54.86
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Mar 26, 2011
I have a personal webserver and webpage that makes my mp3 collection available to me on the network. It's more of a learning experience than anything else. Anyway there are two issues that I have found some information on, but I haven't been able to make sense of what I've found.
1. I would like directories to appear first and individual files to appear afterwards.
2. I would like for the name column width to match the longest name appearing in that column.
I am attaching a screenshot of the page for clarification.
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May 10, 2011
How can I know what number descriptor is used by my usb device indicate via libusb_device_handle structure ? I can't find declaration of libusb_device_handle structure. I need this information to use poll() function where I need decripttion number of device.
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Sep 5, 2011
how can i access 'description' attribute stored in LDAP server from LDAP client(pam_ldap,nss_ldap).
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Mar 14, 2011
When browsing in WinXP Windows Explorer to view an OpenSUSE computer, the displayed name is:
Samba 3.5.4-5.3.1-2489-SUSE-SL11.3 (*hostname*)
Other Windows computers display as:
[computer description]([hostname])
How can I change the "computer description" within OpenSUSE?
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Oct 4, 2010
there's this process on my system monitor that opens and closes by itself it does not have a description or a name and makes my hard drive spin like hell
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Oct 11, 2010
I'm very happy with 10.04 but want to take a look at 10.10. I can't seem to find a list & description of all the new features.
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May 4, 2011
iam running dnsmasq on my target board , my dnsmasq.conf has following configurations
# cat /var/etc/dnsmasq.conf
strict-order
localise-queries
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Feb 17, 2011
I have been googling all day looking for APIs exposed by the linux kernel for graphics n i haven found any information anywhere.
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Sep 3, 2010
Added the following line to sources.list:
deb [URL] squeeze main non-free
After that I did an update and upgrade.
The following packages were kept back : ffmpeg libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libcairo2 libpostproc51 libswscale0 mplayer ( libcairo2 is on hold ).
To overcome this I did: apt-get install mplayer
The following extra packages will be installed:
liba52-0.7.4 libartsc0 libbs2b0 libdirac-decoder0 libfaac0 libggi2 libggiwmh0 libgii1
libmp3lame0 libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0 libvdpau1 libx264-104 libxvidcore4
It ends like: Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_2%3a1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.0_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.xpm', which is also in package mplayer-gui 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_2%3a1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.0_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Next thing I tried : apt-get dist-upgrade:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libavfilter0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavcore0 libavfilter1 libavutil50 libva1
The following packages have been kept back:
libcairo2
The following packages will be upgraded:
ffmpeg libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libpostproc51 libswscale0 mplayer
Preparing to replace mplayer 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 (using .../mplayer_2%3a1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.0_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_2%3a1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.0_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.xpm', which is also in package mplayer-gui 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for menu ...
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0006' near line 5 package 'libavcore0':
missing description
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0006' near line 5 package 'libavcore0':
missing maintainer
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0015' near line 5 package 'libavfilter1':
missing description
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0015' near line 5 package 'libavfilter1':
missing maintainer
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_2%3a1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.0_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Jan 10, 2011
How can I get Zypper to show the full description of packages rather than a truncated summary? When I use zypper to list installed packages or search for packages from the command line I would like to see the full detailed description of the packages that are returned in the results. Currently zypper only shows me a truncated summary description.
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Aug 14, 2010
where I can to find mapping between man section number and it's description in standalone mashine.In other words, where I can to find description of some man section when I have not connection to Internet? For example:
1 -> User commands
2, 3 -> Linux programmer's manual
and so on..
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Aug 28, 2010
Is there some file in Linux that enumerates and describes mount options for file systems like /etc/services describes ports?
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Jul 10, 2010
I am trying to use TOMCAT 7 from eclipse Helios and I seem to not to be able to see Tomcat's browser visual menu.
I receive the following message: description The requested resource (/) is not available.
I have started Tomcat from the shell(UBUNTU 10.04) and it works.
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Aug 9, 2011
I am auditing an Amazon EC2 instance I've set up for security before deploying it. I started to run an install process and saw php5-mhash as one of the packages to install. I tried to find out more about this packages and noticed the description is incorrect: [url]
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Jan 23, 2011
Is there any tools in linux same as "http-ping. This tool shows for any request :
1-The HTTP return code (and its brief textual description)
2-The number of bytes returned by the server (excluding headers)
3-The time taken to complete the request (i.e. round-trip time)
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May 19, 2010
i am looking for a detailed description of the login process for both root and normal user , also locally and remotely.i read some sentences that the files .bashrc and bash_profile are needed for this process. But that was very concise.
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