howto make the smallest installation possible?

drawhla · 10-06-2003, 11:15 AM

hello, i'm a pretty much a newbie and I needed some help, I want to install slack only to use mplayer and xmms, i was also thinking of using xfce as the default window manager.
since i will be using linux only for that porpouse I wante to know what are the basic libraries and apps I will need to make everithing work using the least disk space possible
by the way, I have slack 9.0
tnx

Angelo · 10-06-2003, 11:28 AM

Well, you can use mpg123 to play mp3s from the command line, so you don't need xmms, or xfce, or even X. mplayer can also play movies on the console or framebuffer. Try 'mplayer -vo help' for a list of devices you can use.

aaa · 10-06-2003, 11:52 AM

Slack packages are sorted into groups. The 'a' group is what you absolutely need to run Linux. The 'x' group is what you need for X. You will find xfce in the 'xap' group. I think it's only one package. Not sure where mplayer or xmms are or what libraries they need.

Greyweather · 10-06-2003, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by aaa
Not sure where mplayer or xmms are or what libraries they need.

Slackware doesn't come with Mplayer, it comes with Xine instead.
Installing Mplayer

xmms is in /xap
requirements

mpg321 is in /ap
mpg321 requires libao.so from the oggutils package, also located in /ap, and libmad from /l .

linuxJaver · 10-06-2003, 07:25 PM

The minimal XWM is maybe twm, I think many small XWMs are installed by the X-packages (not sure ..)

Tracke wut in X are, then just install those basic stuff + twm (or one of the XWMs of ur choice) ..