Hi,
Thanks to valuable help from this forum. I now have 14.2 running happily on my laptop. I want to install the Tor browser which will be the primary application (possibly also some form of media player).

I have Tor's folder downloaded, unzipped and on a USB stick ready to install. But I can't help suspect that I will need some kind of GUI for the browser to live in, plus some AV (e.g. Clam) might be advisable, and I also need to install a TP-Link wifi transceiver.

What I need is a plan. (ho ho ho) And some idea of what I may have overlooked through ignorance. Oh, and it's 35 years since I was comfortable with a CLI, and that wasn't Unix, sadly. All help gratefully accepted.

If you did a full install of 14.2 then you already have a GUI - just not using it since Slackware by default boots to run level 3 (multiuser non-X11). You can boot to X11 by changing the line id:3:initdefault: to id:4:initdefault: in the file /etc/inittab.

Before doing that though, I'd suggest a test of X11 by running "startx" from the cli. If that works OK, then edit /etc/inittab.

Also, you might like to run xwmconfig to select a window manager before running startx; the default is KDE which I find a bit clunky and I suggest XFCE instead.

Good luck,
chris

Sorry I should have mentioned that I wanted to keep this as slim as possible so the performance would be OK on this old pc (p4, 1GB ram, 60GB hdd).
So I installed just the first CD, which has (A/AP/E/F/N/Y, bootable installer, kernels, extra/, testing/, USB and PXE installers, Slackbook) on it.
I am now downloading disc 3 which has (X/XAP/XFCE, source code), hopefully I should be able to install it OK and start X up.
Thank you for your help, most appreciated. (X/XAP/XFCE, source code)Let you know as soon as possible.

You will very likely need a large chunk of packages from the l/ series, which probably comes on disc 2 (I haven't used the CD ISOs in years, so I can't remember what comes on what).

I do want to let you know that having all the software installed won't affect performance on your system. Performance is strictly based on what you're running, not what's installed. So to make things easier, it would help to have all series installed so all dependencies are met. Then you pick and choose what software you want to run to maximize your system's performance.

Thank you. Have canned downloading CD3 and instead am downloading DVD full install. Which seems likely to have excellent prospects for my system, despite my tendency to screw things up. Onwards and upwards. I will close this in optimism, many thanks again.