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