Originally Posted by Richard Cranium (Post 5755980)

I think that Darth Vader viewed my reply as "Hey, OP, install all this stuff and it will solve your problem". I thought that I meant "OP, you can find your missing shared library somewhere in here."

Darth Vader's point that package set I pointed to might not actually work if you installed it all and actually leave you with a severely borked system is not without merit.

However, PAM has been a bee in Darth's bonnet for a few years now. I start to wonder if our BDFL doesn't include PAM simply to tweak Darth's nose.

Originally Posted by Alien Bob (Post 5755574)

In order to understand why Plasma5's language files (the kdei section) is so small if you compare ith with KDE4 you need to know that those language files are just for the remaining kdelibs4 applications. All Plasma5 applications have their localizations inside the binary packages. This means you won't be able to selectively install just one or two languages - you get them all by default.

Originally Posted by drumz (Post 5755902)

I know you already solved it, but in case you don't want the libpam package actually installed on your system:

I ran into the same problem. This is what I did:

1. Mirror https://github.com/Dlackware/pam

2. Build pam using the supplied SlackBuild.

3. explodepkg your newly built pam package to grab libpam.

4. Copy libpam.so.0.84.2 to (e.g.) /opt/MATLAB/R2017a/bin/glnxa64/libpam.so.0.84.2

5. Make a link so libpam.so.0 points to libpam.so.0.84.2 (ln -s libpam.so.0.84.2 libpam.so.0)

I'm pretty sure I sent a message to The MathWorks detailing all this in the hopes that they'd document it, but they simply replied "Slackware is not a supported Linux OS." I also asked that they not link against libpam, because as far as I can remember, MATLAB isn't actually using libpam to do anything.

Originally Posted by a4z (Post 5756058)

seriously? I hope it will not become a pain like MS where you want a different language that does not fit to the locale and date formats
simply not installing languages files gave me this until now in KDE, I c
But apart from that fact, what you see above is that the sum of all packages for Plasma 5 (1184 MB) is just 146 MB larger than the KDE4 package set (1038 MB). And just the Qt5 plus the Noto TTF font packages are 153 MB in size. I would not consider Plasma5 to be "too big" for Slackware compared to KDE4.
But that's just my biased opinion.ould have my german/swedish , whereever I am date formating, units and other settings, but having a english user interface.
hope this will not change with KDE5

Originally Posted by drumz (Post 5755902)

I know you already solved it, but in case you don't want the libpam package actually installed on your system:

I ran into the same problem. This is what I did:

1. Mirror https://github.com/Dlackware/pam

2. Build pam using the supplied SlackBuild.

3. explodepkg your newly built pam package to grab libpam.

4. Copy libpam.so.0.84.2 to (e.g.) /opt/MATLAB/R2017a/bin/glnxa64/libpam.so.0.84.2

5. Make a link so libpam.so.0 points to libpam.so.0.84.2 (ln -s libpam.so.0.84.2 libpam.so.0)