I know this type of upgrade question is asked regularly so I apologise in advance if its annoying.
Im currently running 12.2, and Im wondering when 13.1 may be available? have there been many problems with 13.0? I've been working quite alot so havent been checking in that often lately.
also, would my old .tgz packages work with 13.1, or would I need to rebuild them as .txz?
how well does rpm2tgz work? do the packages converted always work correctly? or is it hit-and-miss like with alien?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI noticed that the official Slackware packages don't contain static libraries. The SlackBuild scripts from slackbuilds.org or from Slackware DVD usually contain --disable-static option to prevent building the .a file. And if configure script doesn't allow such option, the .a file is deleted before the package is created.I am wondering what is the reason for that? Is it just the matter of conserving disk space? Are there also other reasons?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI tried to build several packages designed for slackware 13 at slackbuilds. Those was a simple apps like ardour, audacity for example.
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My CPU is AMD Phenom 9550 Quad core. It supports 64 bit. My os is slackware 13_64. What do I need to change in slackbuild to create a txz package for those apps?
I have uploaded some slackware packages to ftp://ftp.herpderp.ca/slackpkg/. These are packages that I haven't been able to find anywhere else and they are all built on a clean slackware 13.0 system using slackbuilds from slackbuilds.org. I will be uploading more in the future as I build them.
View 8 Replies View RelatedAny chance to have KDE 4.5.1 packages for Slackware current?
Searched both official Slackware and Alien site and found nothing.
I tried to install AvamarClient on Slackware 11.0.0 kernel 2.6.24.3.. but i had some troubles. first i need convert the rpm packages to tgz, i did this with rpm2tgz and then install avamar software. when i running the "/usr/local/avamar/bin/avregister" script outputs are:
/usr/local/avamar/etc/avagent.d: line 306: 8281 Floating point exception${BINDIR}/${AVAGENT} --quiet --init --daemon=false ${OPTIONS} --mcsaddr="${MCSADDR}" --dpndomain="${DPNDOMAIN}"
avagent.d Info: Client activation error. [FAILED]
/usr/local/avamar/etc/avagent.d: line 196: 8282 Floating point exception${BINDIR}/${AVAGENT} ${OPTIONS}
avagent.d Info: Could not start client agent. [FAILED]
just curious if there was some discussion about reasons (not)-including Lua in stock Slackware packages ? IMHO it perfectly fits to distro's KISS philosophy, is very small and packaging maintenance is very easy (only glibc dependency, simple compilation and installation proces). Slackware contains programming language implementations of Common Lisp, Guile Scheme, Ada 95 which I find more exotic then Lua in these days. I know there are some histroical reasons and keeping continuity but anyway ...
View 1 Replies View RelatedSince there aren't many available third party packages for slackware 13.1 yet, is it safe to install packages built for slackware 13.0? For example I need to install openoffice and skype and the latest packages i could find are built for 13.0.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm running my newly-built minimal slackware-13.1 system and considering install X and fluxbox into it. The problem is, as a minimalist, I want just the packages that needed for X and fluxbox and no more.
View 14 Replies View Relatedas the subject says, what is your source for non official packages for slackware?? slacky.eu, sbo, others??
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have followed the instructions at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/setting-up-slackware.html (under "Making Firefox Perfect"), but I still get the error message"Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (rtsp) isn't associated with any program."
View 13 Replies View Relatedhow to create Slackware and Arch packages..I am now downloading the Intel non commercial compilers for Linux, to build and pack my number crunching appz for Scientific Linux..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using a short script when I download the Slackware-(current) packages.
Since it works for me I want to share it. I've added a configurationfile, so anyone can adapt it to his/her requirements.
Note: I don't want to prevent anyone from buying the official DVD, but maybe you'll find it usefull to download the packages when performing a fresh install of current.
Advantage of the script is that one has less downloadsize and one can exclude package-series from downloading (in the conf-file).
Here is the configfile, it has to be saved as "getslack.conf" in the same directory as the script.
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For the installation I use the bootable usb-image or create a minimal install-CD (CD1 without any packages) like here ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackwar...nux/README.TXT explained.
i'm done selecting packages from the slackware installer and the installation was finished. the problem is that when i tried to 'startx' it gives me an error.. i think there's some missing packages. how to go to the selection of packages again?
View 11 Replies View RelatedThis may be a dumb question, but can packages built for Bluewhite64 (any version) be installed in Slackware 13.0? I don't have a working Linux box ATM so I can't try it myself.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm compiling the BlueZ packages on Slackware64-13.0 and bluez.Slackbuild failed to run. I added
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mkdir -p $PKG/lib/udev
immediately before
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cp -a scripts/bluetooth_serial $PKG/lib/udev/bluetooth_serial || exit 1
and now the script runs.I don't know why the /lib/udev directory isn't created earlier in the build process for me, but now it builds cleanly.
I'm trying to identify - and eventually uninstall - exotic fonts packages, but unfortunately, the package names in the X group - as well as their descriptions - are not always very helpful.
I'd like to uninstall every font that's not needed to write in either french, german or english, that is: arab, asian, greek and cyrillic fonts, plus the odd exotic font I haven't thought of.
The reason I'm doing this is not some sort of xenophobia on my behalf, but the simple fact that the LibreOffice font selector is quite crowded when all the font packages are installed. Since the desktops I install are primarily used by folks who freshly migrate from Microsoft windows, I've found that a mix of standard latin fonts plus the webfonts (XP + Vista) fonts package from SBo is the most popular solution. At least, that's what I did until now when installing other Linux distributions.
I'm not able to generate GPG key of packages for my local SBo repository..Example: package.tar.gz.asc
I know that's necessary GPG-KEY of SBo http://slackbuilds.org/GPG-KEY for generate signature file, but I don't know how to proceed..
I am using SBOpkg, but for the ~30 3rd party packages I have most of the slackbuilds are already out of date, and I don't expect they will be updated when security issues or whatever arise.
So is the only solution to subscribe to the individual mailing list for each piece of software, or is there a more automatic way?
this one might be simple BUT, where tha heck, I can download some non official software for slackware,I can use installpkg, pkgtool or even gslapt, but WHERE can I download packages or even better set as source for slapt-get.For example two applications: blender 2.49bor due to suckage of craps like mplayer that is installed by default with slackware VLC media player
View 10 Replies View RelatedI installed Slackware 13 last night and have been trying to get bittornado to properly work. Some background info, I have my partitions set up as follows:
Partition 1: /
Partition 2: /usr/local
Partition 3: /home
Partition 4: swap
I unzipped the tar.gz file and made a package using makepkg, and then installed it. Afterwords, trying to run "btlaunchmanycurses" or "btlaunchmanycurses.py" doesn't do anything. Further examining shows me that it installed the package to my / directory. Shouldn't packages be installed somewhere in my /usr dir? I'm new to linux, I spent some time with it a couple years ago but haven't done anything since.
pkgtool just lists it in alphabetical order.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhich packages should be installed? The system should also be able to use scim-pinyin with all its dependency packages.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am in need of some more clear information about compiling and installing various applications in Slackware. I mean, i am not that new in Linux world, but i am not used to having to check for dependencies on my own and making Slackware packages myself. Things i would like to know more about and would be these:
a) is there some magical way you use to find out what dependencies a package has? I would appreciate as much information in this field as much as i can get. As now if i download source of some application i have completely no idea about what it needs from my system to function properly or where to look for this information. I think there should be more "correct way" than goggling for it...
b) I know about nice site SlackBuilds.org that it is, but lets say i want to install application A, and there is written, that application A requires application B, which requires application C, and this one needs application D. So now i have to spend good half of a day getting and compiling dependencies for one application, i mean common there has to be a quicker way to do this... at least some tool that would let me build some kind of ques that would be processed automatically or some kind of trick... So if you know some focuses under your sleeve, then please oh please do share
c) I would also like to know more about optimizing Slackware for boot time and general performance (but it's not that important, there are a lot of walls of text about this in Google world).
I'm running slackware-current and I noticed that certain packages (qt, qt4, libplist) rewrites /etc/rc.d/rc.4 to it's original state. I modified my rc.4 to start SLiM (Simple Login Manager) before GDM/KDM/XDM and these packages just overwrite it. Fortunately, with slackpkg I don't have to apply these changes, but it's annoying to deny it every time.
I guess it's not entirely -current related, since qt3-3.3.8b appeared long time ago in extra/kde3-compat, but I can't tell for sure or test it right now (all my machines run -current)
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1. Upgrade the kernel and kernel-modules packages normally.
That sounds simple except that day-to-day, I don't run a stock Slackware kernel. I compile and run my own and always have. As I look back on my history with Slackware, I don't think I've ever upgraded kernel packages once I got a system up and running. When there's been big changes (2.4 to 2.6, for example), I've done a full re-install.
Most recently when I made the jump to 64bit, I did a full install using the huge.s kernel and once everything worked, I downloaded the current source from kernel.org and was on my way. I haven't booted huge.s since that day.
I do, of course, know how to upgrade my own custom kernel, but I like having huge.s installed as a backup. If I upgrade gcc/glibc, compile a new custom kernel and update lilo.conf/fstab without upgrading huge.s, then I will be left with only one working kernel.
So, my question is: is it simply a matter of running upgradepkg on the 6 kernel packages (headers, modules, firmware, generic, huge and source)? or is there more to it than that..ie, what about the system maps and symlinks in /boot?
slack64 13.1
bash-4.1$ grep sbin/timeconfig /var/log/packages/*
/var/log/packages/glibc-2.11.1-x86_64-3:usr/sbin/timeconfig
/var/log/packages/glibc-zoneinfo-2.11.1-noarch-3:usr/sbin/timeconfig
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if I wanted to install all the packages from the slackware cd in the extra dirctory do I have to install them one by one or is there a way to install them all at once?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to uninstall packages via the program name? For example, if I want to uninstall the program "KWordQuiz" then I would usually have to use the command removepkg -package name But unfortunately I have a fresh install and want to get rid of a lot of programs. So instead of using the package repository and finding each package which would take days (maybe) and removing them individually I'd like to remove a program and all its supporting packages. I am probably just rambling on... Umm, so yes is there a way, or do I have to suck it up and sit at the keyboard for days.
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