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Hiya,
Long time 13.0 user here. I'm initially trying 13.37 in a VM. Now the only thing I decided not to install from the packages was the games one.
After everything was installed and i added a non-root user, i tried "startx" to find that wasn't recognised. So i tried "xwmconfig" and that wasn't recognised. So basically, somehow, i dont have gdm, kdm, or xdm installed. Not really sure how I've managed this.
Hmm ... makes me wonder what else is missing. If I where you I would make a text file containing the little script mentioned in UPGRADE.TXT, minus the 'y' (a.k.a. 'games') directory, since you said you didn't want that. i.e.:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
for dir in a ap d e f k kde l n t tcl x xap; do
( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
done
Then make it executable, switch to root, remount the install DVD/CD, change ('cd') into the the 'slackware' subdirectory under the mount point and finally, run the script. It will then install any packages that are missing.
Note: This will only install missing packages!
Last edited by ruario; 05-02-2011 at 10:06 AM.
Reason: Clarification that this only installs missing packages
As long as you are planning on putting the machine on a network you only ever need one CD. Just do a network install. Or install what is available on the first disk and do the rest later via slackpkg later.
This would also work for you if you know which series you are missing, e.g. if you wanted to install the 'x' series:
Code:
slackpkg install x
(Just make sure you have a mirror set in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors)
Add more series as needed with spaces after 'x', so for example to install all of 'x' and all of 'xap' you could issue:
Code:
slackpkg install x xap
Last edited by ruario; 05-02-2011 at 10:38 AM.
Reason: clarified example
The non-root user can't start xwmconfig. Try it as root first.
Yes, they can. It is a per-user setting.
Code:
DESCRIPTION
xwmconfig provides a menu of the window managers available on the
machine so that you may choose one of them to use when X is started
with "startx".
When run by root, it sets the symbolic link /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc,
which selected the default system-wide window manager to use for X, and
also creates a /root/.xinitrc file with the same window manager
selected (perhaps suitable to move into /etc/skel/).
When run by a non-root user, xwmconfig writes out a $HOME/.xinitrc
file, allowing the user to choose their own default window manager
(possibly overriding the one chosen as a system default).
hmm ok thanks. Of course, i need to know what packages are really needed, which i shall look into. I guess this is better than downloading the dvd iso. i will be on a network, but wirelessly, so I guess i need to get wicd from somewhere. And i use the mirror that i use with my 13.0 install.
hmm ok thanks. Of course, i need to know what packages are really needed, which i shall look into. I guess this is better than downloading the dvd iso. i will be on a network, but wirelessly, so I guess i need to get wicd from somewhere. And i use the mirror that i use with my 13.0 install.
I would do a full install if you have the disk space. You don't really need that much in modern disk terms.
If you want the wicd package, any of the mirrors will have wicd in the extra/wicd/ directory. Use another machine to download the package and then copy it over to your Slackware machine.
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