A full install would take less time than a selective one.

Hi Anisha,

You are correct, any which way you want to go, you need the dependencies installed properly. That's what in Arch is taken care of by pacman and what you do yourself in Slackware usually. Not using the automated way teaches you a lot about what depends on what. And since you say you plan on starting LFS, that's a great learning experience also (finished the LFS book myself little over a week and going through BLFS now, which really is an experience).

Kind regards,

Eric

Yes, which is what I've said, thanks.

Ah yes, sorry. I misread your post. :doh:

Thanks for the clarification, Though i was offended as i assumed it to be sarcasm ! I was about to PM you for ...

Thanks to all of you for bothering to reply !

When I said Slack and arch do take a lot of time to get installed, I meant that it would take time to :

install the GUI,
install the chm reader
install media players
install adobe reader
configure sound system
install gtkpod
etc...

If most of you think that installing all the above would not consume much effort and time then kindly let me know your opinions.

I promise to put a :rolleyes: in future posts when I intend to be sarcastic.
:)

Thanks for the clarification, Eric

If you say that manual installation and manually checking the dependencies teaches a lot then i think Slack would be better for me.

Actually i thought i could learn more from Arch as I've heard the configuration files need to modified every time you want to configure something on it.

Indirectly you are promising to hurt me in future posts then ? :D
Well that will be good for me, I'll learn that way what to say and what not to say ! :)

Several desktop environments are included in a full install of Slack.
chm reader: think there are packages and/or SlackBuilds.
Installing media players is easy: ready made packages or SlackBuilds
for most of them.
I haven't bothered with Adobe reader, usually use Okular (comes with KDE).
Configure sound system? Easy.
gtkpod? Probably package and/or SlackBuild.

Many thanks for the information !

If you want to try Slack, hang on and wait for 13.1 coming out. It shouldn't be long now.

Actually i already have the dvd of slack 12.2 that's why i was thinking of installing it. IMO i'll have to download the iso of Slack 13.1 from net which will take about 2-3 days and moreover i don't have a net connection !

Ah, well, 12.2 is OK, it's still supported with security updates, etc. No problem.

12.2 Slack DVD, I got free with Linux For you magazine, I am not seeing their magazine's latest issues on their home page now a days ?