GSB 2.28 and GSB 2.30 (Release Candidate) now available for Slackware(64) 13.1
 

Hello all,

The GSB project follows closely behind the release of Slackware and Slackware 64 13.1. We are offering a fully stable GSB-2.28.3 for Slackware(64) 13.1 as well as a freshly built release candidate for GSB-2.30 for Slackware(64) 13.1. Both are available at the main mirror selector/redirector at http://mirrors.gnomeslackbuild.org/gsb

What is GSB? GNOME SlackBuild v2.30 is a complete GNOME Desktop Environment for Slackware Linux v13.1, encompassing all the needed packages for a full, clean installation of GNOME for Slackware. It aims to provide a fully functional desktop, including a wide range of multimedia, graphics, and development tools, as well as a complete networking and office suite.

For those who want an older and tested GNOME desktop, feel free to stay with GSB-2.28. However, the GSB-2.30 desktop is in RC status now and is stable and ready for use. There will be a few more package updates on the way before we call it a release version.

We encourage users to upgrade to 2.30 and help us with more testing and bug reports. There have been a lot of changes with 2.30 so please read the UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT files.

For installation information, see our Download page.

If you need help/support, see our Support page, or join us at #gsb on Freenode.

Looks good here.
Fresh install Slack64-13.1 / GSB64 2.30
Everything working except Gslapt from the menu.

editing the kde menu command to
kdesu gslapt fixes it.

If I go to gnome 1st and then to kde the kde menu items are gone.
If I go to kde 1st everything is fine.

I multi-libed it and everything seems to be ok.
I know this is just an RC but it's looking good to me.
Thanks!

I red the README etc files, but I don't understand the installation steps - just to start building package and later install it by the default way?

Well, I'm new to this whole slapt-get thing but here's what I did:
Download & install slapt-get and gslapt from here.
http://get.gnomeslackbuild.org/gsb/g...13.1/gsb64/ad/

edit
/etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
and used this mirror because the preselected default didn't work
http://get.gnomeslackbuild.org/gsb/g...ckware64-13.1/

run
slapt-get –update
slapt-get –add-keys

logout of kde
then
ctl alt f6 <-----my system has inittab set to 4
liogin as root
slapt-get –upgrade
slapt-get –install gsb-desktop

then
xwmconfig
select gdm

shutdown -r now

please note that I an using gsb64, if your using 32bit then the mirrors will be different.

I'll take a look, thanks for the hint.

GSB-2.28.3 for Slackware(64) 13.1 downgrades 9 packages, whereas the documentation says that no Slackware64 13.1 packages are replaced. The packages are:

compiz
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-good
gstreamer
libdiscid
libsamplerate
loudmouth
system-config-printer
vte

downloaded from SOURCE=ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/gsb/gsb64-2.28_slackware64-13.1/:CUSTOM

I chose this version rather than the 2.30 as it would appear to sit more comfortably with Alien Bob's multi-lib files. Perhaps you could look at this fidesratio.

Thanks

samac

Yes, that's some carry over from the previous 2.28.3 for Slackware 13.0. We'll remove those packages from our servers (since their upgrade isn't necessary). Thanks for pointing it out!

An interesting question. All the required replacements for 2.30 are glib2 and gtk+2. If you were interested in generating multilib for them, you could use AlienBOB's convertpkg-compat32 (found at: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/m...rtpkg-compat32) to convert your own multilib.

The PACKAGES.TXT files in both 2.28.1 directories still list those packages. They'll need to be updated too.

The heimdal-libraries-1.3.3-i486-1gsb.txz package in the l series of the 2.30RC breaks smbd and nmbd for me. The fix was to downgrade to the version in 2.28 heimdal-libraries-1.2.1-i486-5gsb.txz.

Also found that I no longer had a clock applet. A little digging found another version problem. The problem and my solution:

Hi fidesratio, I had to add "--enable-afc" to gvfs slackbuild so as to have good iphone support. Is it possible for you to add it directly?

Can you be more specific on what breaks? My samba servers are working fine here with 1.3.3 installed.

Yes, be aware that evolution-data-server and gnome-panel are both compiled against heimdal-1.3 series. You are likely to run into other problems of this sort.

- Steve

We'd need to add two other support libraries (libimobiledevice and usbmuxd, which are partially incomplete) before recompiling gvfs. I'll have to look more into it.

I'm not sure FS support for iPod/iPhone is not particularly handy for most people. If they do want it, they can easily install those libraries and rebuild gvfs. Of course, users can still use Amarok in KDE, or Rhythmbox/Banshee in GNOME to move music back and forth. (PS. It would be nice to have a libgpod 7.9x series on Slackware officially, since most people will need to upgrade it anyway to use the latest version of gtkpod, which I prefer.)

Once the libimobiledevice library becomes a bit more mature, likely Slackware itself will likely include it.

They (smbd/nmbd) refused to start complaining of no libkrb5.so.25. So I tried symlinking which then complained of "NO_HEIMDAL_LIBRAIRIES_1.00". The only way I could get my samba server to start (smbd and nmbd) was to downgrade the heimdal libraries packages.

Reisntalling both the samba packages and heimdal 1.3.3 seems to have fixed the issue for me at least smbd and nmbd will start.