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I would like to get fluxbox configured on my Slackware 14.1 install.
I was reading this. http://www.slackwiki.com/Fluxbox_Newbie
This is 5 years old though and probably not very relevant today.
However since fluxbox is included, I decided to try and upgrade it,
but this doesn't seem to work. Do I need to re-install fluxbox from
source?
See screenshot.
Fluxbox is mature software, and doesn't change much in any readily visible way. There is next to no difference between 1.35, which presumably you have with Slackware 14.1, and 1.37 which is the current version with Slackware 14.2. There is no need to upgrade fluxbox separately and prior to upgrading the rest of your system to Slackware 14.2, if you were to decide to upgrade your entire system. And if you did decide to upgrade fluxbox separately, by, say, installing the package from Slackware 14.2, or recompiling fluxbox 1.37 for your Slackware 14.1 system by downloading the source and slackbuild from the ../source/xap/fluxbox directory in your favorite Slackware-14.2 mirror, you probably couldn't tell the difference between your new package and the older one that came with 14.1
Likewise, the installation and configuration of fluxbox hasn't changed much for a very long time. So the configuration howto you referenced for fluxbox in Slackware is just about as relevant now as when it was composed five years ago.
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