Installed Zenwalk, What are next steps to get a browser installed and working?

thriftee · 10-21-2022, 01:24 PM

It boots up quick and looks nice...

But it doesn't seem to come with a default browser, and the flathub option doesn't work.

How do I get it up to date and install a browser?

All the youtube examples stop at the end of the install...

teckk · 10-21-2022, 03:48 PM

I've never used it.

http://www.zenwalk.org/
https://www.academia.edu/4947161/ZEN...nwalkers_Guide
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:Zenwalk

michaelk · 10-21-2022, 04:09 PM

I just installed zenwalk using all the default options, xfce and chromium were installed by default.

zenwalk's package tool is called netpkg.
http://www.zenwalk.org/p/update-policy.html

thriftee · 10-21-2022, 05:14 PM

there was an error and chromium failed extraction during the install saying it was corrupt

checked, looks like bad md5

$ md5sum zenwalk-current-15.0-200703a.iso
b97d0c912f5e453399cee8cd102700ba zenwalk-current-15.0-200703a.iso

$ cat zenwalk-current-15.0-200703a.iso.md5
c7ead3c0cecb1081446de0f40d3ffa16 zenwalk-current-15.0-200703a.iso

Not sure what I'm going to do, but thanks for the ideas/links

michaelk · 10-21-2022, 05:41 PM

I suspect just a bad download. Download again, verify and reinstall is one option.

thriftee · 10-21-2022, 09:44 PM

Yup, your suggestion was correct. I downloaded it again, and this time the MD5 was correct, and it installed and is working.

Next I need to figure out if it automatically checks for updates or not, and if not do something about it.

Thanks again.