Hi all

Ok I have pulled off a minimal install in a that i have only installed the /slackware/a series of packages on the slack disk 1 also installed /slackware/ap series, which is fine and i have a system up and running well.

Ok so now i would like to install fluxbox of any one of the window managers, the thing is these packages are dependant on other packages, so how do i go about finding out what lib's and packages to install before i install say fluxbox.

I tried doing this before with a failed result and would like to find out some more before I mess with a fully running system.

Is there a way to find what dependancies a pkg has ??

Thanx

when I install Slackware, I just install the base system without X and so on. After that, I download:
- swaret using lynx
- newest Xorg using swaret
- windows manager using swaret and so on ...

swaret tries to find out which libraries does the specific application need. it does that by using "ldd" command. you can also run it by hand.

but, if you install fluxbox, and if it doesn't want to start, you'll see the error on the command line and you'll see which libraries are needed.

M.

Hi

thanx for the reply i will have to look into man ldd but you have sent me in the right direction

cheers

Yes. The best way to manage dependencies in Slack is using Swaret. Sometimes it doesn't resolve all of them but it does a good job 9 times out of 10.

finding dependencies i usually do what malo_umoran mentioned. I run the application at the command line, and it would spit back a missing dependency. This could take a while, because it usually does it one missing dependency at a time.

For X you need to install the base X package plus fonts-misc. You also need tcp-ip installed since X uses it to communicate with linux. for fluxbox the only other thing you need is cxxx-libs since fluxbox is a c++ prog.
You can have a small install with fluxbox with about 130MB of software installed.

I personally prefer to use the slack sources (x and xap are on disk 4) and it comes with build scripts and make the packages. You can edit these to use the optimization tags for your processor, and it will make .tgz's that you can save and use every time you choose to reload.

Hi gnashley

I think the c libs part is what im looking for thanks

Hope this works out at the moment im getting the x server to start but having a few problems trying to get serial mouse to work , also seem to be getting 3 errors before x startx

_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/zaind-pt00c:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

Havent got a clue as to whats happening there though.

Thanx all

Internet Protocol 6 is not compiled in by default, but this creates no problem.

* Most 'errors' reported by the kernel and programs are really not serious and mostly mean 'I looked for this but didn't find it.' The message fails to follow up and tell you ',but that's alright, we can run anyway...'.

If a program runs the error is not fatal. Of course many of these can be done away with by re-compiling the kernel just for your hardware and disabling a few items in the init scripts.