[SOLVED] Kamerka for Slackware

Ztcoracat · 04-10-2017, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by glorsplitz

Just throwing this out as hack/workaround.

There is another thread SimpleScreenRecorder so I decided to try it. Installed and worked as described.

With mjpg-streamer in a window streaming, using SimpleScreenRecorder I put a rectangle around the mjpg-streamer streaming window and recorded.

I've always wanted something like this, something simple, thanks for the nudge.

Thanks for the suggestion but for some reason Simple Screen Recorder didn't launch for me.

bassmadrigal · 04-10-2017, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Not sure what I'm going to do at this point aside from installing another distro alongside Slack.

Why? Just grab the pre-compiled Mate packages that willysr has provided and see if it fills the required dependencies. They're easy to install and easy to remove.

http://slackware.uk/msb/

Or you could even try Eric's Slackware Live Mate Edition on a USB drive or VM to see if the dependencies will work without it touching your system first.

http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/1.1.6/

Ztcoracat · 04-10-2017, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

Why? Just grab the pre-compiled Mate packages that willysr has provided and see if it fills the required dependencies. They're easy to install and easy to remove.

http://slackware.uk/msb/

Or you could even try Eric's Slackware Live Mate Edition on a USB drive or VM to see if the dependencies will work without it touching your system first.

http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/1.1.6/

I'm downloading Eric's Mate Edition now.-

I'll try it on VBox and see what happens. The download has 2 hours to go.

bassmadrigal · 04-10-2017, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

The download has 2 hours to go.

Ouch... he does have other mirrors available that may be faster. Might be worth a shot.

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Primary location: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/ (rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/)
Darren’s mirror (also fast!): http://slackware.uk/people/alien-slacklive/ (rsync://slackware.uk/people/alien-slacklive/)
Willy’s mirror: http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/slackware-live/
Ryan’s mirror: https://seattleslack.ryanpcmcquen.or...lackware-live/
Shasta’s mirror: http://ftp.slackware.pl/pub/slackwar...lackware-live/)
Tonus’s mirror: http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distrib...ien-slacklive/

Ztcoracat · 04-10-2017, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

Ouch... he does have other mirrors available that may be faster. Might be worth a shot.

The first link gave me a 1 hour download that's a little better. Thanks!
When I don't use a 'private browser' my downloads are horrible.

I think my ISP has a cap on what I can download:-

While that's downloading I'm looking at the Parent Directory here:
http://slackware.uk/msb/14.2/latest/x86_64/

Correct me if I'm wrong but I only need these:
CHECKSUMS.md5.gz, MANIFEST.bz2, and PACKAGES.TXT.gz

bassmadrigal · 04-10-2017, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

While that's downloading I'm looking at the Parent Directory here:
http://slackware.uk/msb/14.2/latest/x86_64/

Correct me if I'm wrong but I only need these:
CHECKSUMS.md5.gz, MANIFEST.bz2, and PACKAGES.TXT.gz

If you downloaded the Mate version, you don't need anything else. It is pre-installed.

You want to look for slackware64-live-mate-current.iso

But if you want to do it manually, no, you'd need much more than that. Those are just zip text files. You'd need all the packages under base/, deps/, and (optionally) extra/. I believe it is slackpkg+ compatible, although, I've never tried setting it up, so you'd be on your own for that. You should also be able to use a recursive wget command or rsync to grab everything...

...but it would be much easier to grab the ISO that already has it installed

Ztcoracat · 04-10-2017, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

If you downloaded the Mate version, you don't need anything else. It is pre-installed.

You want to look for slackware64-live-mate-current.iso

But if you want to do it manually, no, you'd need much more than that. Those are just zip text files. You'd need all the packages under base/, deps/, and (optionally) extra/. I believe it is slackpkg+ compatible, although, I've never tried setting it up, so you'd be on your own for that. You should also be able to use a recursive wget command or rsync to grab everything...

...but it would be much easier to grab the ISO that already has it installed

Darn it: the download (slackware64-live-mate-current.iso)failed:-

I'll try another mirror that you posted in post # 19--

Ztcoracat · 04-10-2017, 08:48 PM

Finally, it downloaded and checked out-

Code:

bash-4.3$ md5sum slackware64-live-mate-current.iso
6e38678c042a2c8095e74684cc45a83d  slackware64-live-mate-current.iso
bash-4.3$

Can't get to the Vaio right now. I'm working on a sketch for a client of mine.
Should have time in the afternoon tomorrow to run the .iso in VBox.

Ztcoracat · 04-11-2017, 02:45 PM

On my 64-bit Vaio .iso's won't run in VBox because it's a dual core machine.
I've only been able to run 32-bit .iso's in VBox on the Vaio.

And my 64-bit quad core desktop doesn't have a webcam, darn:-

In the meantime I'm looking at QT Cam, Zoneminder and Motion. <comparing>

Do you see a way around this bassmadrigal?

bassmadrigal · 04-11-2017, 03:05 PM

Being a dual core shouldn't affect your ability to run a VM. However, you might need to enable some sort of virtualization setting in your BIOS/UEFI setup. I ran into this recently on my new laptop. See this stackexchange answer for more details.

Ztcoracat · 04-11-2017, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

Being a dual core shouldn't affect your ability to run a VM. However, you might need to enable some sort of virtualization setting in your BIOS/UEFI setup. I ran into this recently on my new laptop. See this stackexchange answer for more details.

The Intel Virtualiztion was disabled so I fixed it--

http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/...tecat/Bios.jpg

I looked through the rest of the setting in the BIOS and there wasn't any mention of vi-d.

I'll try the slackware 64-live mate now in VBox.

glorsplitz · 04-11-2017, 04:06 PM

Ztcoracat, not sure what I need to do/missed with getting webcam to work in a virtualbox slackware current vm.

Using Qt V4L2 test Utility on the host webcam works fine, in the vm it was just green screen. I installed zoneminder and qtcam in the vm but without webcam working properly through the guest I don't know how well they work. I tried adding usb filter under virtualbox usb settings too, webcam appears in lsusb list.

So if you get slackware 64-live mate in VBox going let us know how goes for you.

bassmadrigal · 04-11-2017, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by glorsplitz

Ztcoracat, not sure what I need to do/missed with getting webcam to work in a virtualbox slackware current vm.

The VM is actually to test and see if Mate will fulfill the dependencies needed by cheese, the program they want to use on their main install for the webcam. But it requires Gnome libraries, which Slackware obviously doesn't ship with. If the dependencies can be fulfilled using Mate, then Mate can be installed on their main system so they can use cheese (since ready-made packages for Slackware are provided by willysr).

Ztcoracat · 04-11-2017, 04:55 PM

No dice:-

The slackware64-live-mate-current.iso boots fine in VBox. However once it's booted to the GUI with the Slackware Linux logo and the username and password login screen it locks up.

Keyboard isn't recognized either.
For grins and giggles I tried booting into Parrot Linux while VBox was still up and the distro wasn't able to boot because VBox only detected a i686 CPU.

I'm hoping that the webcam isn't useless:-

bassmadrigal · 04-11-2017, 06:00 PM

Dang. Maybe it'd be worth trying his iso2usb.sh script.

Code:

./iso2usb.sh -i /location/to/slackware-live-mate-current.iso -o /dev/sdX

Replace /dev/sdX with your usb device. This will wipe it, so make sure everything is backed up.