Hey everyone, sorry to bother with more stupid questions :P. I recently
started running slackware 13.37 and wanted to install some packages. I downloaded transmission and chromium from slacky.eu repositories and installed
it with pkgtool. Everything looks fine, after viewing the installation it is present there, in the filesystem, everywhere it should be, only when I try to execute it nothing happens.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

how did you try to execute?

Try to run the installed program in an X terminal and look for errors.
Did you install a 32-bit package on 64-bit Slackware perhaps? Or the other way round? That will not work. Did you forget to also install required dependencies? Slackware does not perform dependency checks for you.

Eric

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I made sure it's 64 bit and pkgtool also says the installed is as well. After checking with terminal I think it's definitely the dependencies, thanks for that! Um, I'll have to ask though, how do I go about getting the dependencies?

Okay, I've started manually downloading dependencies and installing them but I've come across
a needed dependency glibc which I can't find for slack64.

glibc is already in Slackware, pretty much everything needs it

Pkgtool will install anything you tell it to. It will not check the archictecture, or the suitability for your Slackware release.

Please try to be more specific and don't let us guess about your issues.
What is the output of the program when you run it in a terminal? What is the reason you think you need glibc?

Eric

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Yeah, sorry should have probably posted my error right. :P

Error when trying to run 'chromium':
chromium: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5)

Same for transmission-cli:
chromium: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5)

are you running slackware64-current or slackware64-13.37?

Terminal(ly)- ill, your problem is pretty clear now. You have slackware64 13.37 with glibc-2.13, but you installed libevent built against glibc-2.14. You probably downloaded packages suitable for -current. Uninstall this package and download & install other which made explicitly for 13.37.

@terminally: the sense is not to mix software repositories, as one repository can have built stuff following its own chain of dependencies and environment.

the ideal is to build stuff yourself from slackbuilds.org: have a look at the README for the package you're interested and build first the dependencies accordingly.

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Okay, finally got it working thanks everyone! Man, I was a complete idiot, searching dependency by dependency and installing from different sites, different versions. 0.o. Anyway, I've decided to use Slacky.eu as it already lists and provides all the necessary dependencies. To be honest I'm in need of some guidance as to what repositories I should be using. It served as a source of
some frustration because the links to repositories on the slackware site doesn't work and neither do several links to
other repositories across the net. I've only been able to find Slacky that is reliable.

Could any of you please share some of the repositories you frequent? Also @ponce, slackbuilds is a bit intimidating at the moment, :P so I'll give that a pass for now.

Thanks so much everyone!!

I think many people use slackbuilds.org for most of their stuff.
AlienBOB's repository is another popular one, he hosts slackbuilds as well as his precompiled packages for plenty of software. Link: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/
rworkman also has some packages.. http://rlworkman.net/
Then there's that slacky.eu you already used.

rworkman and AlienBOB are part of Slackware team so their packages are pretty trusted ones.