Slackware :: TeTeX Time For Update?
Jun 9, 2011
I use Slackware from version 12.0 When i have two write something more formal the choice is always Latex. But as we all know the TEX version presented in Slackware is no longer supported (since 2009), I produce some report that used algorithmic package and in Windows generates correctly (last TexLive) but in Slackware64 13.34 give error because don't understand some macros.
We all know that the tex version is outdated, and TexLive may be too big, but I'm starting this thread so we could find a solution.
For example MiKTeX can be a suitable substitute?
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Sep 10, 2010
I'm running an x86 Slackware 13. When i start emacs with auctex enable, or when i launch latex, the process hang.
For emacs i have found that it's kpsewhich that try to scan my whole home (lot of Gb).
The problem is that i had defined my home directory with a trailing slash. If i remove the trailing slash, there isn't any problem. If you want to reproduce the bug try :
Code:
HOME=/home/you/ /usr/share/texmf/bin/kpsewhich -debug=90 -help
HOME=/home/you /usr/share/texmf/bin/kpsewhich -debug=90 -help
On the doc page of kpathsea, there is a section "tilde expansion" [URL] that say :
Quote:
As a special case, if a home directory ends in `/', the trailing slash is dropped, to avoid inadvertently creating a `//' construct in the path.
So my question is : do you think there is a bug in kpsewhich ?
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Feb 10, 2010
I am running Slackware64-current(multi-lib) and I have stumbled across something that I don't fully understand.I have read that the kernel-headers should not be updated as glibc is compiled against them and therefore requires that set of kernel headers. Recently the kernel version has been bumped a couple of times but glibc has stayed the same.Should glibc be re-compiled each time there is a kernel update?
Perhaps someone can explain, in very simple terms, the relationship between the kernel, the kernel headers, the kernel modules and glibc.
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Feb 20, 2011
I'm running xbmc on slackware64-13.1 and it's running great. However a python addon script is giving me trouble. The script contains some utf-8 characters, and by default I get an error because coding isn't declared in the script. I've added
Code: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to the scripts and they will work fine, but they are updated very frequently. I've tried messing around with turning on unicode console and such but I'm a bit in the dark on this. Is there a way I can get slack to handle those scripts without having to edit them every time I update?
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Mar 24, 2010
I have a linux (Slackware) machine and the time/date is like, June 23rd 2003, 10:00am (It's 11 here) and I am not able to set the time to have it correct. I change the timezome to Montreal but the time is still wrong.
Is there a way to force it to sync with my domain controler or even another online NTP server?
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Mar 5, 2010
It looks,slackware is taking too much time to boot. It's starting daemons at boot time.
What are those daemons that i can stop at boot time to increase booting time?
What's the best way to stop starting daemons at boot time?
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Feb 11, 2011
I was running 10.04 LTS and had decided to stick to the LTS versions as I'm now running my machine as a server and don't want to be updating regularly.Every time I logged in via SSH I got a message telling me there where packages to update including a security update. So I did a search to find out how to perform an update on Ubuntu server from the command line.What I found was to do this:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgradeAfter doing that I rebooted but now my machine gives me this message:
init: ureadahead-other main process (794) terminated with status 4Your disk drives are being checked for errors, this may take some timePress C to cancel all checks currently inprogressI'm not pressing C yet and leaving it alone to finish, but I noticed when the machine booted that one of the options for booting talked about Ubuntu 10.10, so I'm worried that I've updated from 10.04 LTS to 10.10 by accident?
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May 10, 2011
I've been running arch linux, with my clock set to UTC with no problem. Recently I installed slackware on a different partition. During the setup I chose to set my clock to 'local time' instead of UTC by accident. Now in slackware my clock shows the wrong time. Also in arch it shows the same wrong time.
I booted back into slackware and ran pkgtool to enter the setup again, and changed my time to UTC. But this makes no difference. My clock is still wrong in both slackware and arch. Do I need to reboot after changing my clock settings in slackware before it takes effect? how the clock or the setup works.
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Jan 21, 2011
I can't find how to do this.
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Dec 27, 2010
I've been using cron to clear /tmp at boot time but thought I'd try another method. After doing a little research I added the following line:
Code:
( cd /tmp && rm -rf -- * .* 2>/dev/null )
to /etc/rc.d/rc.S immediately after:
Code:
# Done checking root filesystem
And /tmp is not clearing out at boot time. This method seems to work for others.
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May 19, 2011
i'm using slackware 13.37. (Sony Vaio VGN-FS315H)
my fans are working all the time, they are loud and it's annoying.
I already did sensors-detect, but I get this message every time.
Code:
Sorry, no sensors were detected.
This is relatively common on laptops, where thermal management is handled by ACPI rather than the OS.
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Feb 6, 2011
so when they log on to their profile in kde, they have a max of "x" hrs per day, but not necessarily on any set schedule. can it be done?
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Sep 13, 2010
Only one app can use my sound card at time.
This is the alsa-info: [URL]
There's a lot of errors like that in the Internet but none really present a solution, seems like this is an old problem that has been solved a while ago by alsa, but not here.
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Jul 19, 2010
Just some things I changed to speed up the boot time.
In '/etc/rc.d/'
rc.acpid
Code:
echo "Starting ACPI daemon: /usr/sbin/acpid &"
/usr/sbin/acpid &
rc.hald
[Code]....
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May 11, 2011
I did a fresh install of Slackware 13.37, and everything is great, and thanks to Pat and the team.
Recently I notice that Wireless drops out all the times, and it will show low connection first, then basically drops.
Is there anything I forgot to do?
For me, I normally have two ways to bring up wireless, sometime I use WICD, sometimes I just use "ifconfig....iwconfig...dhcpcd eth1"
btw, if I log in WindowsXP, wireless never or seldom drops.
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Nov 23, 2010
Every time I update anything, I'm asked to insert my Edubuntu disc. I booted from the CD once and ran it in LiveCD mode. I'm pretty sure I've never installed anything from it. So why do I need to put it in all the time? I'm not even running Edubuntu. I looked at the software sources, and the only CD listed is the Ubuntu one, and it's unchecked anyway, so how do I make it stop wanting the Edubuntu CD?
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Dec 10, 2009
I am using ubuntu 8.04.When I install software from internet then files are downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives so i keep those debian files in safe place so that I can install that software on another stand-alone computer.
MY question: When we run 'apt-get update' for first time after fresh install it downloads some files. Can i store those files & point to them for a networkless computer which has no internet ? If this is possible it will allow me to 'apt-get check' on stand-alone computer to see if any package is not proper.
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May 22, 2011
I'm having problems with the time on one of my computers. It's loosing nearly 4 minute per hour. I installed the ntp program, but for some reason it won't work on this computer (a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04 32bit).The defaults didn't work the same as my other computers. I used the command to stop apparmor (sudo invoke-rc.d apparmor teardown) in case that was the problem. As far as I know, no firewall is started by default. I checked and couldn't find any.My /etc/ntp.conf file is exactly as it is on the machine that is working:egrep -v "^#|^$" /etc/ntp.conf
Code:
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
[code]...
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Nov 11, 2010
I was thinking of creating a little audio alarm clock with an mp3 and mpg123 to play a song from a cron job each day. How do you specify the time of day to execute a cron job?
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Jun 28, 2011
I was wondering how to allow someone to use a user account for two hours a day. After this time, it will log them out, and not allow them to sign back in until the next day. How can I do this?
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Jun 1, 2011
I just installed slack 13.37. I was poking around a little and I noticed that I have all these modules loaded... yet when I open up /etc/rc.d/rc.modules almost everything is commented out. how are these modules being loaded at boot time?
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Jun 6, 2011
After some idle time Slackware hangs up/freezes. When, for an example, i turn on music i can hear it on idle time but after some time music still plays but i'm losing picture (monitor detects no signal), num lock is locked, led on keyboard are turned on but won't turn off while pressing num lock. I've switched off power saving options in Slackware and on bios setup.
My spec is:
X4 620 (without overclocking)
AMD 760G (Radeon HD 3000)
Catalyst 11.5 for Radeon graphic.
BTW - computer works fine with Windows. Also, with Slackware i can work for an hours, many hours and everything is fine but as soon as i leave it for some amount of time = it hangs/freezes. There is something wrong with hibernation. Not always computern is turned off correctly. TV is switched off, slackware logged off but i hear drives working and cooler fans. It should be switched off completly.
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Mar 18, 2010
For those of us in the US, last weekend we started daylight saving time (1 hour ahead). When I booted up my laptop on Sunday morning, the clock did not automatically update. I have a script to sync my clock with a public time server, so it was no big deal to run it. I did think it was odd that Slackware did not automatically adjust the clock.
My question is this: Is this expected behavior?
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Mar 29, 2010
I am currently running KDE4.4.1 from AlienBob, and now with the change to BST I noticed that my clock hasn't changed. So I go to change it through SystemSettings and it shows a message thus:-
Quote: You are not allowed to save the configuration
This happens as both normal user and root. Googling around seems to suggest this error is tied to a Kauth/PolicuKit/polkit problem, which aren;t provided yet in Slackware as far as I am aware.
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Mar 18, 2010
It seems like 1 out of every 3 times I try to log out of xfce it stalls. I can continue to work but if I want to leave I have to ctrl>alt>backspace. Has anyone else had a problem like this?
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Aug 14, 2011
I have an old computer and BIOS counts the time slower than real. So, how can I set my OS to update the time automatically using the internet? If it updated the time only during booting, it would be enough.
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Apr 7, 2010
I've searched for ways to do this with cron and come up empty. I want to schedule the update manager downloads for the 2-7am hours to avoid being penalized by my satellite service provider for excessive downloads. No, I can't change providers as I live in a rural area where it's the only relatively high speed option
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Jul 22, 2011
I am running 11.04. After an update about a week and a half ago, the time to wake from suspend increased from about 3 seconds to well over 40 seconds. It now, sometimes, takes me longer to wake from suspend than a normal boot takes. Has anyone else encountered this problem/found a fix or workaround?
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Jun 22, 2010
The times aren't staying the same when switching between Slackware and Debian. When the time is right in one, it's wrong in the other.I've spent some time reading about this sort of thing, but this particular problem...
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Jul 1, 2010
I am trying to build conky from SlackBuilds.org using sbopkg, but the build fails every single time. It may be worth noting that I am trying to build with extra options, namely --disable-x11 --disable-xdamage --disable-own-window --disable-xft.
This is so I can have a cli-only conky that I can pipe to my status bar. This has worked in the past, but now the build is failing with a seemingly unrelated error.
It states:
Code:
At the end of the build. I tried removing the option --enable-audacious, but that only resulted in an error which complained that yet another option (--enable-rss=yes) was a "Command not found". This continues as I remove options. I would like to keep many of those options active as I have a need for certain features.
This is a copy of the SlackBuild being used:
Code:
I have a full install of Slackware64 v13.1, so audacious is installed. I don't know what else could be going wrong, and I don't know why this worked in the past.
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