I tried re-installing Slackware in VirtualBox again...let's see what I screwed up this time!

No man pages:

No Firefox:

Actually, make that no GTK+ apps at all (for the same reason above: missing libatk).

This is why I need a package manager with dependency resolution!! :mad:

And no, I'm not going to do the "full" install, because the VDI I've created for the virtual machine is only 10GiB, so I don't know if that's enough to hold *everything*. Plus which, I don't like the idea of having useless daemons and whatnot running when I don't need them.

If you did a full install, you wouldn't have those problems.
Ah, no. There is no man page for gtbl (whatever that is). But there is for nroff.

^ See above edit.

Checking fonts in Google Chrome......... [DONE]
==>SUCCESS!
Checking KDEmod default Network Manager ........ [FAILED]
Options Failures
-Crashed Plasma
-Killed X
Removing KDEmod default Network Manager ... [DONE]
Installing the real Network Manager .... [DONE]
Checking the real Network Manager ..........[DONE]
==>SUCCESS!

Checking for Arch logo Browser Identification in LQ post .......

[failed]

A full install is about 4.8 GB.

...oh. :redface:

*Fires up VB to try a "full" Slackware install*...

EDIT:

Actually, the problem was that I was getting those messages for man <anything>. Not anymore, though (hopefully), because it's doing a "full" re-install as I write this post.

And you will be prompted for which "useless daemons" you
want to run, anyway. That, and in slack it's as easy as
to stop them from running.

If they're called from one of the "core" start-up scripts
like rc.M they're commonly there for good reasons.


Cheers,
Tink

Mostly I was just worried about things running that wouldn't apply to a VM (e.g. PCMCIA card services).

You worry too much. :)

I may fire up a VM w/ Slack too.

This will would be my 3rd time.

The first two failed miserably.

I don't know though. I'm going too be happily using Arch for a while.

I just love the Slackware community here at LQ thats all. And i do find comilind from sour ce to be fun. (As long as i don't have to deal with a thousand dependencies.)

No, Daniel Craig's too ugly to play brianL. I suppose I'll have to do it myself...oh, hum. Problems, problems, problems.

Arch does not show the icon by default.

Arch user agent icon instructions for Firefox:

1. Enter "about:config" in the address bar.
2. Agree to the warning.
3. Right-click anywhere in the list, and click New->String.
4. Set the name to "general.useragent.vendor".
5. Set the value to "Arch Linux".

And that from the guy who advocates correct spelling and grammar? ;}

Well, damn, I don't use Firefox.

I did try something with Google's CLI user string option; perhaps it'll work?