When I do slackpkg searches, they almost always return nothing. How much compatibility is there for the installation of non-slackware software in tarball format?

Example: I like grsync. It makes rsync much simpler to set up and manage.

slackpkg search grsync - "No package name matches.."

I downloaded the grsync tarball and attempted to compile, but found the following dependencies:
dee-1.0
dbusmenu-glib-0.4
unity

These packages are not available through slackpkg. Is there any point trying to source them elsewhere? Or, am I doomed in my attempt to add some user-level simplicity?

grsync is on Slackbuilds.

-->http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=grsync&sv=14.0

I have had it install on 13.37 and now on 14.

Part of the problem was the Unity dependency. I think this refers to the awful new GUI in some "cool", "user-friendly" distributions. I was able to add --enable-unity=no to the ./config line and lose all of the earlier dependencies.

I'm still not out of the woods, though.

The result of make:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.7.1/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld: callbacks.o: undefined reference to symbol 'round@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.7.1/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld: note: 'round@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO /lib64/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line

I have used "make" many times, sometimes successfully. While I know that linking happens, at this point I have no idea how to access the "linker command line" or precisely what I would add to it. (I just want to install a little app! Shouldn't that be simple?)

I keep hoping that the learning curve for Slackware is worthwhile. I've had better decoding with the Dream Radio application under Slackware than I got under another distro.

Thanks, Camorri!

Which package did you use: the source or the SlackBuild?
I downloaded the SlackBuild, grsync.tar.gz, expanded it and ran doinst.sh. Nothing happened. Did I do something wrong?

I used the Slackbuild. You need to download the file and the file .

I put them in a dir called /home/cliff/src. Any directory in your /home/user will do. The first file has to be unpacked, I do it with ark. If you have a full install, you will have it.

The second file comes from different sources, do not worry about that.

When I untar the first file, I allow it to maintain the same dir structure. Then I move the file with the version number into that dir. ( everything is in one place. )

On my system it looks like this:

Now su to root. Type ./grsync.SlackBuild and press enter. The compiler will take off and build your package.

The result will end up in /tmp. After the compile finishes, go to tmp. If you want you can list the file there. One will be the package you install. It is a binary package at this point. You can, if you wish, copy it to the dir you put the other files in. You do not have to. Just type in /tmp dir installpkg nameofthe package and press enter. It will install.

That is it. The reasopn to copy the package back to the dir you create, is if you might want to install it again, later, on the same system, or on another system of the same release and arch; 32 bit or 64 bit. Of course you can always just build it again.

I do recommend you clear /tmp of the files you create with slackbuilds. You can fill up /tmp and cause system problems if you put too much stuff there.

Hope this helps.

It took me quite a while to figure out that I needed to:

• Download both tarballs.
• Expand the SlackBuild tarball.
• Put the source tarball inside the SlackBuild's directory.
• Run the grsync.SlackBuild script.
• Note the name of the Slackware install package (/tmp/grsync-1.2.1-x86_64-2_SBo.tgz).
• su to root.
• run installpkg /tmp/grsync-1.2.1-x86_64-2_SBo.tgz

The package installation even added grsync to the menu in Xfce.

SlackBuilds. Gotta remember that.

Looking at the timestamps, it seems I figured it out about as fast as you could compose your instructions. But thanks. You mentioned a few things I didn't know.

No problem, now if you want to make your life with Slack slacker.... then take the time to install sbopkg; from here -->http://www.sbopkg.org/

Read the doc on the site. Once you have sbopkg installed, to install packages on slackbuild, you run as root, sbopkg. It takes a little use, easy to use, and it does all the work for you. Now you're slackin...

BTW, you still have to check the pre-req's. With sbopkg you can create install list in the correct order of packages, and install a bunch of packages in the correct order. Makes life much easier.

Yup. And then it's as easy as:

For deps, you might want to use queuefiles w/sbopkg too.

Then it would be:

and all the deps will be installed, and in the proper order.

I'll let you ponder that for a bit, so you look into how to correctly clone the queuefiles from the git repo and prepare sbopkg for use with them. There's gotta be some RTFM'ing or it just ain't like it should be, right?