First time with Slack.
 

Hy there.

I've just installed Slackware 10, or at least that's what I think. As I have never interacted with it, I'll have tons of questions, but for now I must start with my first troubleshooting.

I know every Liunx has an /etc/init.d. I know it mind sound foolish, but I coudln't find it. Does it exist? Doesn't it?

Re: First time with Slack.
 

Slackware doesn't! ;)

Slackware uses a simpler init system spread over a few files in /etc/rc.d instead.

Can u explain it a little more to me pls?

I discovered that already, but it still blury to me.

You might find this interesting.

Welcome aboard Hedon, do you like to read? a nice source of info to start with is the Slackbook

Peace
:cool:

10x a lot!

If I have anymore questions, I'll ask.

I have one more question now... Dummy me :">

I have installed Slack 10.2 (First I had Slack 10.0). I've created a user only for me, but when I try to login with the graphic manager (KDE) it says something about /etc/shells and it doesn't let me. Don't realy understand what it wants. Can u help me pls?

a little more information shall be appreciated :rolleyes:

what does KDE say?

just in case, my /etc/shells file looks like this:

or maybe you gave to your user an unknown shell, or you didn't at all ... more info please

The message is [i]Your login shell is not listed in /etc/shells".

Since I've caught you willing 2 help... can u tell me how do I setup my xorg.conf to start with a certain resolution for may Display? It starts by default with 1400x1050, and it doesn't have such power for this... (I need it on 1152x864.)

1. Use chsh to change your login shell to /bin/bash.

2. Post the "Screen" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and we might be able to see what's wrong.

I've set the xorg.conf. It works. Thanks anyway.

I have another question though, for I'm so young with Slack. (Till now it looks great :D). How do you install packages? Can u tell me a package manager?

type " pkgtools " on the commandline...( as root )

and there are the commands " installpkg " " removepkg " upgradepkg " and a few others.
( these are all meant for Slackware packages )

you can also compile software from source if you can't find a Slack-pack

egag

How do I install rmps within Slack?

Otherwise, how can I install OpenOffice2?

Slackware doesn't really utilize RPMs, but does have tools to convert them, such as rpm2tgz and alien... I never came across any rpms, because I always got slackware packages, or compiled from source, try getting the source instead of the rpm, places to look are, www.linuxpackages.net and www.slackware.com/pb

Some people here used rpm2tgz and said it worked right, I just got a package from http://linuxpackages.net
I personally don't understand why OO.org people decided not to provide a simple binary installer as they did for 1.X.