Installed Slack 9.1. Where is K3B???

tigerflag · 10-10-2003, 01:44 PM

Can't find it anywhere, have spent a long time searching. Does it not come with Slack? Is there a way to download it? I've looked for it at linuxpackages and don't find it there. Tried swaret and slapt-get, no luck.
I used the 2-CD installation, and installed full KDE. I don't see K3b in the CD contents at all. Any suggestions?

TIA,
Siri Amrit

XavierP · 10-10-2003, 01:48 PM

I went to Google and put "K3b Slackware" (w/o the quotes) in to the search box and found the package within 30 seconds.

Give it a try.

tigerflag · 10-10-2003, 02:54 PM

Well, thank you. I feel so dumb!

XavierP · 10-10-2003, 02:56 PM

That's alright - you'd have figured it out for yourself sooner or later.

FYI - www.google.com and www.google.com/linux are an excellent resource as is the Search page on this board. Sourceforge and freshmeat also give huge amounts of help and software.

Enjoy!

tigerflag · 10-10-2003, 04:02 PM

Actually, I google for everything andsearch these boards and RTFM religiously... I just don't understand half of what I read. I had seen the K3b pkg for version 9.0 in linuxpackages, I just didn't know if I could use it for v.9.1.
So I went there after you mentioned it and it installed like a charm when I ran pkgtool, only it wouldn't load. Seems to be missing "libfam.so.0"
I'm trying to figure out from where to download that if I don't have it on my CD's.

I'm just having a REALLY hard time learning how to install stuff in Slackware. I've never (successfully) compiled things from source, never made symlinks to libraries or whatever. I gave up on Slack a year ago because of this, after trying for about 6 months and getting nowhere. I thought I saw instructions on these boards for compiling from source; will find it and have another read...

Thanks for your help,
Siri Amrit

XavierP · 10-10-2003, 04:46 PM

I'm going to build myself up to Slackware.

Have you tried a 'whereis libfam.so.0'? This guy also didn't seem to have it and then discovered a way to use it because it really was there......hmm, while you're reading the post I'll work out how to say all of that in English.

tigerflag · 10-10-2003, 05:09 PM

Nope, don't seem to have it. I see it available as a RedHat RPM.

TheOneAndOnlySM · 10-10-2003, 05:14 PM

ack, hate it when single libraries are missing, because when u search for them, they are either within entire packages (which i don't want/need to install) or availabe as individual rpm's

my suggestion is that if u don't need to install an entire package, is to download the rpm and use rpm2pkg filename command, replacing filename with the name of the rpm, the use pkginstall or some command like that (hopefully someone else will remember it) and it will install the package, or just simply untar the files and move the files into the specified directories yourself

then, just in case, do /sbin/ldconfig

slakmagik · 10-10-2003, 05:19 PM

'rpm2tgz' and 'installpkg' - which may or may not work - or compile from source?

http://www.k3b.org

tigerflag · 10-10-2003, 05:44 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. Will try them soon. My ISP's been flakey all day, can't stay connected more than a few minutes at a time.

It's nice to know that missing libraries are a problem that happens sometimes, and it's not just me in my ignorance that's finding it a pain... In another thread someone said that compiling k3b from source worked better and didn't have the libfam.so.0 problem that the binary package has. Maybe I should cut my compiling teeth on that?
I found 2 sources:

k3b-0.9.tar.gz
k3b-i18n-0.9.tar.gz

Which one should I download?

slakmagik · 10-10-2003, 05:55 PM

The first - the other is either an internationalization addon or a version with internationalization builtin.

nirvanix · 10-11-2003, 10:14 AM

By the way, XCDRoast is in the /extra package directory on disc 2 of Slackware 9.1. Is K3b preferable? I kind of like XCDRoast - the interface is nothing fancy, but it always seems to work very well.

tigerflag · 10-11-2003, 12:19 PM

Thanks, digiot.
I like K3b a lot more than all the other gui programs. It's has a very intuitive layout. I always have problems setting up XCDRoast right.

tigerflag · 10-11-2003, 03:23 PM

Thanks so much, all of you. I found a thread that said how to install from source using checkinstall. If any other newbies to this are reading, here's what I did:

1. downloaded and installed checkinstall using pkgtool as root.

2. downloaded k3b-0.9.tar.gz from sourceforge.

3. went into the directory where it was downloaded to, opened a shell, and su'd to root.

4. typed: tar -xvzf k3b-0.9.tar.gz (hit return)

5. typed: cd k3b-0.9 (hit return)

6. typed: ./configure && make && checkinstall (hit return)

Let it run. Logged in as root and ran k3b setup.

HTH others,

Siri Amrit