I've been using Opera.

The old dated Netscape version 4.x browser isn't too bad either.

Mozilla based browsers are too bloated for my laptop, and KDE (Konquerer) is also too bloated.

I have had trouble installing dillo or opera on my Pentium100 Mhz with 32 Mb of RAM. Some instructions say untar
the ./configure ; make ;make install <--- I always get stuck on that step.

Can someone post more specific instructions? I am using Slack 9.1 and using the 0.8 dillo tarball thanks

George

I just did it on my Slack 9.1 system.

1) I got the tarball from www.dillo.org

2) tar -jxf dillo-0.8.0.tar.bz2

3) cd dillo-0.8.0

4) ./configure

5) make

6) make install

7) dillo &

And up it ran.

Did you have root privledges when you did the "make install"?

Are you sure the thing compiled? (look for "dillo" in dillo-0.8.0/src)

What sort of "trouble" did the "make install" cause? (ie: what happened)

Have you tried installing the package from linuxpackages.net?

"make install" has to be issued as root, not as user.

Linux packages only has version 0.7.3 not 0.8.0 and only compiled for Slack 9.0 (even though it probaby would run on 9.1 anyway).

Of course I can donate my newly compiled copy to anyone. I think I just need to see how it compiled to make sure it will be compatible with most systems.

http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_...=dillo&ver=9.1

dillo 0.8.0 compiled for slackware 9.1

Opps, I stand corrected!

I was sure I tried looking for it last night and couldn't find it, but now: there it is.

For specific instructions about things you probably want to disable (you will have a more secure system as a side effect) take a look at the instructions published at:

http://jetblackz.cjb.net/

There you will also find intstructions for Vector Linux, a slackware based distribution for laptops.

Hope that helps.

thanks for helping me out

here is what I did:

1)
save the dillo .tgz file in a directory /usr/dillo0.8
cd into /usr/dillo0.8
tar -zxvf dillo-0.8.0-i686-2.tgz

then it displays a bunch of files

then I

cd /usr/doc/dillo-0.8.0

./configure

the computer says:

./configure : No such file or directory

I did a find/ -name dillo-0.8.0
and the following came up:
/usr/dillo0.8/usr/doc/dillo-0.8.0
/root/usr/doc/dillo-0.8.0

2)
I found out that I needed the compile tools of slack, so I installed disk set d using pkgtool. I hit enter for all the installable files in set D
Maybe that's not the right way to install things? I tried installing dillo again like I described above and the same

./configure : No such file or directory

message came up

3)
What is a good way to install "disk sets" after I already installed the base system?
The only way to go back into setup is by booting the boot and root floppies,
but then I thought that continueing would reinstall Slack.
What I want to do is pick disk sets d and gnome and let Slack automatically install all the necessary packages. What's the way to do that?

thanks

George

P.S: I have similar problems with Opera, but I assume if I you guys help me figure out how to install Dillo, the same tricks will work with Opera.

all this while I have been using root, so permissions should not be the problem

no I havent tried downloading from linuxpackages.net

I think it's not the package that has problems, it's my setup


George

You say you have the .tgz, thats a slackware package, not the source

If you have the .tgz file, don't do ./configure make make install

just cd to the directory the .tgz package is in and do installpkg foo.tgz

or, even easier cd to the directory as root and type pkgtool

damn, that was easier than I imagined.

Do you know how I can install packages d and gnome without having to use pkgtool hit enter for every installation file and wait through the install?

George