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all right, now that i have my slackware comp up and sort of running, i have come upon the problem that i can never seem to get anything installed when i try. I think i got the nvidia drivers to install, but im not quite sure... all of the other packages fail when i try to install them. i think this problem may stem from the fact that im not using slackware specific packages, but rather grabbing anything that looks like it might work.

the question that i am trying to ask is how do i install a package (rpm or tar.gz is what i seem to be getting) on slackware when it fails dependencies? i usually get a libc error when its installing, or a permission denied (strange, because im logged in as root...) but i tried installing the prog that it says made the dependency fail, and it says it wont install because it cant pkg-config, which i managed to install successfully... but nothing else seems to be working

if it helps, im trying to install the emu-tools for the sound blaster live, or if that wont work, i also have the alsa drivers for it. and once those are up and running, i hope to be able to install the drivers for my epson stylus c40ux printer... (btw, the reason that i think my video card drivers arent installed properly in because i cannot use anything that required gl, when i should be able to.

if anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated.

PsychoFarmer, NOTE: always werk from the command line ...

Since rpm's arent supported by slackware, you must get the .tar.gz extension.... of whatever you wnat to install...

then a common mistake people leave out is to change the permissions on the file, remember: tarballs must have execute permission... so for root user

%> chmod 700 filename.tar.gz

will do fine...

if you want to install a tar.gz extension you have to unzip it 1st... like this:

>> tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

then cd to that directory and run
%>./configure
%>make
%>make install

you can configure your install directory to be whatever you want by adding the --prefix='absolute path to install dir' to the ./configure command...


peace
~NiKoN

Quick note:
You can use RPM's on slackware, however you are much better off turning them into slackware packages with:
rpm2tgz

:)

Cool

when downloading stuff for your slackware system you should download:

* installpackages made for slackware , install them by using installpkg or
pkgtool.

* source-code , comes in the shape of a compressed file.
uncompres and then compile it then install.

For the Nvidia stuff, there is no precompiled packages for slackware, you have to download the tar.gz packages found on the nvidia site.

There at least one site where you can find slackware-packages to download.

http://www.linuxpackages.net/

And , Read the slackbook !

Where do i get that?

Comes with your distro :) Look on your slackware CD

Cool

Heeeey... I like this forum already. I'm a newb, installed Icepack 2 weeks ago and Zipslack yesterday (OS of the month club? LOL). Looking for lots of info, and finding it too. Thanx for the linx.