blackbox0.65 binary on zipslack9.0

bad_gui · 03-31-2003, 01:53 PM

I installed Zipslack 9.0 on an empty 810MB drive (not enough space for full slackware install or XFree86) on a 166 MHz 65 MB RAM Pentium (there is also a primary 2GB win98 drive that is almost full). I used pkgtool to install blackbox-0.65.0-i386-1.tgz from the extras directory of slackware 9.0. The txt file says "Blackbox is that fast, light window manager you have been looking for without all those annoying library dependencies." Well, it doesn't run and when I do an ldd on the executable I find that libSM.so.6, libICE.so.6, libX11.so.6 and libX.ext.so.6 are missing. The blackbox site at sourceforge only has source and I would rather get this binary working without having to download g++ and compile it myself. Can I find these libraries in the gcc .tgz on the ftp site? I didn't check the gcc .tgz file for these libs because the lib names seem Xwindows specific. I should mention that my goal for this installation is to "get under the hood" rather than install a mega GB distro but have no idea what is going on (I already have win 98 for that).

Tinkster · 03-31-2003, 02:32 PM

Gidday!

I might have gotten that wrong, but as far
as I know all window-managers run "on top"
of X11 ... :)

Cheers,
Tink

bad_gui · 03-31-2003, 03:52 PM

Yes, those files are all in usr/X11R6/lib on my RH8.0 machine at work while I'm pretty sure this directory was empty on the zipslack machine. Can I just frankenstein these into my zipslack install at home? Were these libs accidentaly left out of the blackbox tgz or are users supposed to install XFree86 first? The install and readme files that came with the tgz I installed seemed to be the originals from the source distribution rather than from the binary creator.

whansard · 03-31-2003, 03:56 PM

You have to have X installed to run any X app, which
includes a window manager. You probably know that,
but if your /usr/X11R6/lib directory is empty, you probably
don't have X installed.
No, those files aren't left out of blackbox by mistake.

slakmagik · 04-01-2003, 01:45 AM

Not entirely on topic, but I've got a P100 with an 812 MB hard drive and 32 MB RAM. I still don't have the damn video configured right (about ready to start a thread on it), but I'm running Vector which is Slack-derived and have X and Blackbox (though I compiled mine - compiled without any hitch at all) - so obviously, I've got gcc, too. And that's just if you aren't happy with the XFCE or IceWM that comes with it. Just a thought for how to be Slackish and have X on 800 megs.

But, yeah - you gotta have X to have any X app, of course - Blackbox runs on top of, not in place of, X.