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I've created an initial set of SlackBuild scripts to build and install MATE desktop environment 1.5 (development branch) on Slackware. I'd greatly appreciate testers, suggestions, patches etc.
Thanks willysr - @dugan yes I emailed back and forth w/ Pat about it a few days ago but I'll drop him another email now that I've made it public. Thanks for the reminder. And, I would definitely like this to be a community project so contributors etc. are welcome. Most people around here are a lot smarter than me so I'm sure the scripts will be greatly improved with other people's input. Thanks!
it caused this kind of output
ls: cannot access mate-doc-utils*.bz2: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access mate-doc-utils*.tar.gz: No such file or directory
@willysr - yes, it's a harmless error. the script is using the source to determine the package name. Most of the sources are .tar.xz but some are bz2 and others are .tar.gz. Everything installs ok. I'll work on the build script though.
I just noticed a minor thing in extra/mate-applets.SlackBuild: at the end it runs a find with some arguments, but the last (mate-invest-applet) is not there, so I changed the find line to avoid interrupting the script
Code:
find $PKG/usr/share/mate/help/$i/* -maxdepth 0 -type d ! -name C -exec rm -rf {} \; || true
EDIT: mate-document-viewer requires mate-keyring.
EDIT2: forgot to say I tried these on slackware64-current.
@willysr - yes, I had considered that - just need to make sure it won't accidentally install a package with a partial name, e.g. package-foo and package-foo-bar. But something like that should work.
@ponce - I'll change the build script, thanks. Good suggestion. As to mate-keyring, hm, upstream told me that the packages would pick up gnome-keyring which is included in Slackware default. I'll need to look at those compile flags again or move mate-keyring and libmatekeyring back into /base.
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