This post is really to document a trial - given the sheer volume of these installs it doesn't seem to make much sense to debug it. I used the slackbuild.org directory and am not on current. I'm afraid I can't make an intelligent question out of this.

As mentioned in another thread, I was interested in seeing where enlightenment was compared to e-17, or at least that was my intent.

Per slackbuild for enlightenment-0.22.3 directions, dependencies are bullet, luajit, efl, lua, then enlightenment. I had slackbuilds for all and successfully installed packages successfully created, so they said . The lengthy compilations of bullet, efl, and enlightenment completed with a plethora of warnings, the number of which would seem to make reading logs a monumental chore but I'm taking a look.

enlightenment won't start - it didn't create its own enlightenment_start file and without that, it seems like a useless bunch of cruft dumped onto my laptop. google is strangely silent on enlightenment_start files.

I now have this bullet package onboard - maybe back to school for some physics brushups? Seems like an odd duck...

Ryan PC McQuen and Mats Tegner have been working on slackENLIGHTENMENT for several years to bring a "cutting edge Enlightenment for Slackware!". They've automated the process where all you need to do is clone the repo, cd into it, then run a script. You do need to have sbopkg set up and configured for 14.2, but otherwise, you just wait for your computer to chug along and finish installing everything for you.

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so I assume all the dependencies I installed are handled by sbo? bullet is a huge package, not to mention the efl libraries - gives lightweight a new meaning ...

I can't see how to clean up the mess I just installed except by reinstall - no logs (?)

I believe all packages that are not a part of SBo are tagged with sEL. All the dependencies from SBo would be tagged like normal. But you can do an ls -ltr /var/log/packages/ to see the packages sorted with the newest ones on the bottom. Then just match up the dates to around when you ran the install and it should tell you what you can remove.

I've never really used enlightenment, I was just aware of this offering by them. If you do have problems with it, I'm sure they'd love to hear about it so they can try and fix the issues.

I didn't use SBo cuz I'm still learning, so that didn't help.


I used your advice and sat watching this get built - took maybe almost an hour and had quite a few "Warnings" - this is deprecated, lib is older vers, and things which may get "clobbered" but it completed and seems to work fine so far - great job they did.

thanks!!