My Shiny New LFS Desktop
Just about got all I need installed now, just missing a few minor cli commands and fonts and I'm god to go.
Major apps: Claws - Mail App Chrome - Browser Links - Console Browser Gimp 2.6 - What a PITA to install! Conky - How do you describe Conky? Cairo-Dock - Another PITA Xfce 4.10 - Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy SpaceFM - File Manger ( Nautilus gone but not forgotten ) Gedit - Best Text Editor Since EdWord Meld - Visual Diff Editor Mplayer - Latest SVN Version Ffmpeg - Latest GIT Version Xfce-Theme-Manager - What It Says ( blatant plug ) gFtp - FTP Client Lfspkg - My own package manager based on slackpkg. What it looks like: http://keithhedger.hostingsiteforfre...shots/lfs1.png |
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Looking good I take it you are proud of it |
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Nice. But I never got to see the image.
Anyway, when you need some office stuff, I found Abiword and Gnumeric easy to install without having to get bogged down in too much dependency stuff. Later on, I found the LibreOffice steps to have been greatly simplified in recent book versions. It's much easier than OpenOffice ever was, IMO. About a month ago, I removed my last Linux distro. My BLFS system is the only Linux I have now. |
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i gotta ask you something...actually i've built lfs several times almost complete but failed every single time...not i am kinda gonna doubt that weather it works or not..but as you've built, so i wanna ask few things to you if you never mind...that is: how many times has you built lfs? do i need to compile every single make check/test file? except of most imp ones like gcc or so... is blfs is also as complicated as lfs? how much time it overall (lfs + blfs) takes? |
Hello brhanheck,
You didn't ask the questions to me, but I don't think you or Keith Hedger will object to my input here, too. If I guessed wrongly about that, then I apologize and retreat. You can ignore the following. Quote:
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Hi stoat...
thanks for your reply....i appreciate your help today.... but i've build lfs recently may be more then 3 times and i got a lota errors...i am using ubuntu in vmware fusion. could ubuntu host under virtual machine make problem? if not so, then how will i boot from lfs after compiling lfs from ubuntu host as bootable package? i mean how could i boot from vmware fusion? will it detect lfs built or not? if it will not, then which virtual machine best for lfs and which host sys is best? i've heard that ubuntu is not best at all... and for the sake of blfs...i am really exciting about that because it is the only exciting part of the game...can you please tell me that after making lfs completely, can i install directly gnome desktop from blfs at my existing lfs? |
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Difficult to say how long it takes, it's sort of how long is a piece of string, the basic bootable system I guess to a couple/three days, the extra bits X,xfce,firefox etc etc is an ongoing process, for instance having had a stable system now for a month or two I am now upgrading a lot of packages, but then I am a fiddler! BLFS is what you dip into when you have a working system, just think of it as a "pic'n'mix" you just use the bits you want. I would strongly suggest making notes as you go or as I did put the commands into a script its easy then to see if you have missed something and you can always re-run the script, also make small scripts for setting up and chrooting into your LFS as aside from typing everything every time you go in and out of the chroot environment being a pain, once you have working scripts you stand less chance of making mistakes. I agree with all the remarks by stoat. |
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If you have the disk space I would set up a partition to build LFS on as it will make it lots easier to run the real thing later on, I may be wrong but looking at these forums it seems more people have more trouble building LFS on a virtual machine than on a 'real' disk, just an impression I get. As for host systems I would strongly suggest slackware as it does not split dev packages, ie in ubuntu for instance to compile against a library you need to install BOTH the library itself AND the -dev package, slackware isn't exactly user friendly but is very stable with good forums and is a good learning experience in itself, it's what I used to build LFS. |
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well, thanks for your reply keith...but i gotta still ask you something, that why did you chose xfce? rather then gnome or kde? is there something wrong with them?
and i also wanna ask you that as you've built ur os, it look very cool with that theme that you've chose, but can you install apps on it? i mean without manual compilation? or for that reason i also have to put alfs onto (blfs + lfs)? if so, then what else alfs can actually does? and for the sake of operating system...i've recently built lfs at ubuntu successfully but at the end...then kernel got weird and saying that there is something wrong with my diffutils... i know that i can go back and repair it..but its a lot fun to kill the whole damn thing and rebuild it.... so, now should i go to slackware? i dont really care about its weird GUI...i just want performance. and as you've said that i should use external harddrive | partition...i dont have external harddrive..but i have 500GB of harddrive on my imac. but as you know, i cant just install linux at mac.. its the only worse thing with mac. but on the other hand ~ i dont have any PC... so is there any way to go with my mac? config of mac: iMac 11,1 - i3 - 4GB RAM - 500 GB HD - Mountain Lion - virtual machine linux | ubuntu 12 | slackware 14. BTW, i appreciate all of your help once again. Thanks. |
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well thanks keith... but i dont wanna install slackintosh because it is too old enough.
but is there any other option? and BTW, i wanna ask that i didnt got any problem till end of my previous lfs, but do i still need to change linux host system from ubuntu? ive downloaded slackware but u know, i dont know how to install it, it is too kinda like windows 98 in its installation. i've partitioned it successfully but now at the root user, i am watching my monitor to see what to do next...i cant even install it... __is there anything wrong with ubuntu still? --what about suss? or red hat? |
No there is nothing wrong with using ubuntu if that is what you are happy with, as for slackintosh I was only suggesting it as a way of getting a basic linux on your mac and then build a better linux.
If you are running the slackware install disk you need to read the root mail Code:
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okay, thats fine but i wanna use your linux online. can you please let me use it through teamviewer or something? i would really appreciate that. because i wanna check it virtually that
how it is, how it feels like and so. i also wanna test few things like some support of network or so. if you do so, then i would really appreciate that. |
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