Slackware :: Slimming Down Slack 13.37 Installation?

May 1, 2011

I would like to say that I am very pleased with it. It has been easy and simple setting up. That being said, I am in a little bit of a bind. I installed Slack on an old laptop to test it out. I installed everything except for KDE and the various video drivers associated with X that I knew I didnt need. I am wanting to now install Slack on my usual laptop to be dual booted with Windows 7. However, I still need to keep most of the hard drive space in the Windows partition, so I am limited with the amount of disk space that I can give to Slack.

My test installation is about 4.5GB. I want to have as much space available for my files as possible and not for the operating system. My necessities as far as my packages go are X, firefox, flash, java. Any window manager will do. What would you guys suggest as far as trimming down my installation? below 2-3GB would be good, any lower would be best.

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Slackware :: Bin File Installation In Slack?

Dec 18, 2010

I downloaded Qt SDK file (530 MB and file is ok ) qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2010.05.1.bin, I type in console ( slackware ) like in manual for installation at site

Quote:

chmod u+x qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2010.05.1.bin

but when I type second command for installation

Quote:

./qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2010.05.1.bin

I get error message

Quote: bash: ./qt-sdk-linux-x86_64-opensource-2010.05.1.bin: cannot execute binary file How to install ?

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Slackware :: Is There Something Seriously Changed From Slack 10 To Slack 13.1 ?

Apr 18, 2011

I have just reinstalled slackware on my old p4 3.2 box clean install formatted hard drive no other packages installed.is there something seriously changed from slack 10 to slack 13.1 ?? or do i suffer from C.R.S ( cant remember s***)

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Slackware :: Slack+Fluxbox - Post Installation Tasks?

May 29, 2011

I've just install Slackware and Fluxbox windows manager. I suppose I have to configure some stuff, update my system, change theme etc etc. First of all I need to activate my wifi card because I can't have the laptop on my desk using ethernet all the time.

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Slackware :: Cannot Shutdown Slack 13.1

Apr 18, 2011

I've install Slackware 13.1 and i cannot shutdown my PC. The shut down process stop while trying to run PCMCIA module.

This is the first time that happens.

From Hardware point of view , i didn't do anything at all (if that helps).

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Slackware :: Upgraded Php To 5.3.x In Slack 13.1?

Dec 23, 2010

Anyone upgraded php to 5.3.x in slack 13.1?
Could you please share the slackbuild?

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Slackware :: Slack 13.7 KDE Seems Hanged?

Jul 2, 2011

I installed a slack 13.7 on an old laptop. KDE was set as default desktop. then I login and run startx and I saw KDE first screen display. after that I saw blank screen with a mouse on it. Then it stayed there and it seems try read some in my harddisk since the persistent harddisk light.

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Slackware :: Slack Won't Go To Sleep

May 2, 2011

When I try to put slackware to sleep or have it hibernate the system simply sits with a black screen. Normally it would do this for a short period of time immediately before the actual sleep state (screen powered off, croissant light on) is entered, but currently it does it indefinitely. My sleep USED to work just fine, it broke after some unclean shutdown or another, basically I just want to know what I can try resetting to try to get it back to normal.

Slackware64 13.1, running on thinkpad X61.

EDIT: Of course the second I make the post I think of trying to sleep/hibernate from the command line instead of through X/GDM (Gnome SlackBuild). That works.

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Slackware :: Upgrading Slack From 13.1 To 13.37?

May 2, 2011

I have some doubts about the official Pat's upgrading procedure. In the UPGRADE.TXT file, one of the stepts says:

Code:
upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z What does --install-new mean? Pkgs I have no installed on my 13.1 will be installed on the 13.37 upgrade? For example, I did not installed KDE on 13.1. Will be installed when upgrade? - What about third party pkgs? Slacky, SlackBuilds.org, compiled by myself. Should I remove them before upgrading slack?

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Slackware :: Why There Are No Smp Kernels On 64 Bit Slack

Sep 1, 2010

Does it mean that a 64 bit version is not multi-core?

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Slackware :: Webcam Not Working On Slack 13.0

Dec 23, 2009

I have a XPS 1530 and when I type

lsusb

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It seems to be that the camera is recognized by the OS but it is not working when I try to use it in skype or in EVO.

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Slackware :: Armed Slack On Tonidoplug?

Mar 21, 2011

Has anyone here succeeded in getting armed slack running on a consumer kirkwood device .ie. one without serial console? I have a tonido plug that I want to liberate. By default the plug boots first from the external usb, so I would only need to set up / on the first partition. I would be very interested to know if someone had managed to install slack to the internal nand without bricking it.

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Slackware :: Can't Install Imlib2 On Slack-13

Jan 30, 2010

I compiled it from source, i installed it via slackbuild but it didn't work. When i go imlib-config --version it shows me the old one, and when i try to install giblib it tells me that imlib2 is not installed. I watched the output from the installing of imlib2 and i realized something's wrong: there are several suspicious warnings :

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Slackware :: Change BootSpash In Slack 13.1

Feb 8, 2011

I don't know if i'm doing anything wrong but, to change the bootsplash picture its just change the slack.bmp in lilo.conf and reboot?

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Slackware :: Creative Zen Not Recognized In Slack 13?

Mar 18, 2010

my problem, I have Slackware 13 dual booted with vista on a dell 1545 2 ghz 2gig ram. to these forums I have gotten everything working except my creative zen vision M 30g. I have tried alll the suggestions posted here and other places on the net. Here is my output from lsusb.

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 046d:c018 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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any way i can transfer files back and forth to this would be great since it does not work in vista either. and I am pretty sure 99.9% that I have all the libmtp, libnjb, and whatever other libs are needed installed but in gnomad it says no devices found on USB hub. I hope this is enough info and someone out there has the trick or maybe I am missing something obvious.

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Slackware :: DBUS / Compiz In Slack 13.1?

Jul 9, 2010

i installed compiz fusion on my slack 13.1 i installed in the good order all the packages nevetheless when i try to use DBUS in command line i don't have any response from compiz
here is one example

Code:
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/switcher/allscreens/next org.freedesktop.compiz.activate string:'root' int32:`xwininfo -root | grep id: | awk '{ print $4 }'`but no reaction .what can i check to have a functionnal DBUS ?

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Slackware :: GNS3 V0.6.1 Install On Slack 12.2?

Feb 26, 2010

I have downloaded the packages from Slackbulids and installed also the required packages from slacky.eu but still it says that probably pyqt is not installed. I have installet latest Sip and latest pyqt ver 4.

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Slackware :: How To Reset The Modem In Slack

Apr 30, 2010

i know that there is a reset button on the back but after reset i dont know what to do with it. right now i m using pppoe connection which only works in windows and bt4 and i want to make it run in slack 'cause now slack is my main os(66hr since i switched to it :0) so i want to configure the modem in a way that i work in slack. and i m dumb about PPP/TCIP/DHCP and btw i like "the" slack

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Slackware :: Install Gnome On Slack 13.37?

Jul 6, 2011

I like GNOME. So, I want to install gnome 3 as my desktop environment.

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Slackware :: Mobile Broadband On Slack ?

May 31, 2011

I installed slackware on my laptop last night, :-) very happy. Can't wait to learn more about linux and even computers in general. I've already learnt heaps since entering the alternative operating system world. Anyways, i've got xfce up and running with slack now, created a new user 4 my self. And now i'd like to get some updates and stuff, but i need to use my mobile broadband. It's a telsta dongle If that changes the circumstances. How would i go about setting this up?

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Slackware :: PXE Boot With PfSense And Slack?

Sep 4, 2010

I am trying to setup a PXE booting environment in my network and I almost got it to work... Only it does not quite work yet... Basically, I want my laptop or any other machines to boot from my network. I followed the instructions from AlienBob to do so. I setup my laptop to boot from the NIC, it automatically gets an IP from the DHCP server (pfSense);

I setup my gateway/DHCP server (pfSense) as is: -The IP address from the network boot server: 192.168.0.101 (the server where my slackware mirror and all tftp boot files are) -The filename used for network booting: /mnt/it-maintenance/tftpboot/slackware-13.1/pxelinux.0 (the absolute address of pxelinux.0 in my server)

I setup the network boot server (running slack 13.1) as is: -uncommented the line in inetd.conf to have:

Code:
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot -r blksize
-added a NFS share to /etc/exports to have:
Code:
/mnt/it-maintenance/operating-systems/slackware-13.1
192.168.0.106(ro,sync,insecure,all_squash)

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Slackware :: SeaMonkey 2 Not Working On Slack 12.2

Dec 24, 2009

I am having problems getting Seamonkey 2 and 2.0.0.1 to run on Slackware 12.2. I have tried the packages for 12.2 in patches/packages/ and the package from the seamonkey website, both with identical results. Seamonkey appears to start, and does appear in the process list, however no windows appear and it uses little memory and no CPU cycles. No messages appear in the console if I start it from there. I have to kill the processes (seamonkey , run-mozilla and seamonkey-bin). I have tried removing my Seamonkey profile, with the same results.

If I try to build the slackbuild I get this error:
Code:
checking for cairo >= 1.8.8 freetype2 fontconfig... Requested 'cairo >= 1.8.8' but version of cairo is 1.6.4
configure: error: Library requirements (cairo >= 1.8.8 freetype2 fontconfig) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
configure: error: ./configure failed for mozilla
/usr/bin/gmake -C mozilla default
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/comm-1.9.1/mozilla'
gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `default'. Stop.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/comm-1.9.1/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2

The version of Cairo I am running is the standard Slackware 12.2 version cairo-1.6.4-i486-1.tgz, which to my knowledge, has never been updated (there is nothing in /patches/packages for it, anyway).

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Slackware :: Slack 13.1 Won't Work On Machine

Jun 9, 2010

I have myself a perfectly working slackware 13.1 64 on my pc (well, tbh I gotta solve some ati and kde compose issues),BUTI can get no joy when trying to make it work in friend's pc.The slackware 13.1 32 install runs ok. I can even log in and run a init 4 session on kde.But with no apparent reason hard crashes (completely frozen system) hit the system aleatory (never last more than 5 minutes)

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Slackware :: Slack 13 Based Distro's?

Feb 2, 2010

so, I was wonderin just how many distros are slack 13 based?I know Absolute and SalixOS is.I tried installing Vector Lite (12.1) and no mouse and other big issues?was gonna try Zenwalk, but heard its Dead?So, are there any other 13-based distro's?

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Slackware :: Slack Dependent On Lilo?

May 4, 2010

I understand that making any changes wrt to kernel on Slackware one has to rerun Lilo. If an install was made onto a disk already using other distros and Grub and wanting to keep Grub, do I still need to install Lilo?I believe that one could use the 'chainloader' entry in Grub to boot the Slackware. And Lilo can be installed to its own / root partition.I suppose really what I'm asking is Slackware totally dependent on Lilo?

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Slackware :: Slack-desc: Not Working?

Feb 3, 2011

I'm building a slackpackage for TeamSpeak3, i got everything to build and link correctly, but the problem i'm having to me seems rather minor, but it is annoying, i can't get the description when i install it using pkgtool to show up, even tho i do have a slack-desc in the install folder of the pkg itself, and i believe it to be properly formatted.any suggestions as to why it wont show up?i've attached the slackbuild and slack-desc to see if i'm missing a step.

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Slackware :: Slack Shall Ask Which RunLvl Want To Use On Startup

May 8, 2010

I want to make my Slackware as me which Runlevel I want to use on startup.There should be the code for that at the end of rc.1 and default Runlvl 1 in the inittab.

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Slackware :: Upgrade To The Kernel > 2.6.29 On Slack 12.2

May 5, 2010

can I upgrade the kernel on my slack 12.2 to the version 2.6.29 or higher?I need the kernel must support the KMS mechanism.Why I need KMS? I want to define virtual screen of size greater than 2048 x 2048. Why I need so huge virtual screen?To run two-display configuration on my dual-head Intel graphic card. At the moment I can set max 2048 x 2048 virtual screen which is not enough for my two displays:LCD of notebook has 1400 x 1050 resolution, and external LCD panel 1280 x 1024. At this moment a part of desktop is on both displays. Small part but causes some problems, and at this moment only awesome (really awesome) window manager can handle this configuration.

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Slackware :: Using A Different Slack Bmp Image In Lilo

Aug 20, 2010

I want to use a different bmp image in Lilo when the system boots up. What I want to know is how do I get this new image to confirm to the specs as detailed in liloconfig. Or are these specifications only a guideline?

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Slackware :: Using Dd To Make Bootable Slack Usb?

May 30, 2010

I'm trying to use alien bobs usb wiki to make a bootable usb slack installer. the syslinux part was easy and worked fine but adding the package tree has proved a bit confusing, I was trying to use the cp and mv commands to get the immages from my slack 13 iso but I had stumbled accross a way of using the dd command and can't seem to find the information again.

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