[SOLVED] MLED - Microlinux Enterprise Desktop - a full-blown production desktop (KDE or Xfce)

kikinovak · 11-06-2014, 01:11 AM

It almost went unnoticed, but K3B just released a new stable version after three years. Again, this is the "full-blown" version built against a complete set of multimedia libraries:

Code:

Thu Nov  6 06:55:14 CET 2014
kde/k3b-2.0.3-i486-1_microlinux.txz: Upgraded.
+---------------------------+

Code:

Thu Nov  6 07:16:22 CET 2014
kde/k3b-2.0.3-x86_64-1_microlinux.txz: Upgraded.
+---------------------------+

Enjoy,

Niki

kikinovak · 11-09-2014, 10:38 AM

I added WINE to the desktop-extra repository. One dependency, fontforge, has been added to desktop-base, so make sure to install it. Now you can enjoy MS Solitaire and Space Cadet Pinball on your MLED desktop.

Alien Bob · 11-09-2014, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak

I added WINE to the desktop-extra repository. One dependency, fontforge, has been added to desktop-base, so make sure to install it. Now you can enjoy MS Solitaire and Space Cadet Pinball on your MLED desktop.

Nota bene: fontfoge is only a build-time dependency, you do not need to have it installed in order to use wine.

Eric

kikinovak · 11-10-2014, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Nota bene: fontfoge is only a build-time dependency, you do not need to have it installed in order to use wine.

Eric

Thanks for the information, Eric!

kikinovak · 11-13-2014, 02:45 AM

For those of you who run MLED KDE on a laptop, some updates concerning the NetworkManager applet.

KDE's native applet doesn't work satisfyingly, and I recommend using GNOME's applet, in the same manner as on a default RHEL/CentOS 6.x installation with KDE. Details are discussed here.

I've added a corresponding section to the Installation Guide (section "NetworkManager applet'):

http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/L...4bit-HOWTO.txt

I've also removed the 'networkmanagement' package from the tagfiles.

Cheers,

Niki

Alien Bob · 11-13-2014, 05:38 AM

Networkmanagement has had an overhaul in my Ktown packages - in fact, the networkmanagement widget has been replaced with a freshly developed Plasmoid. I do no have issues with its stability in recent KDE versions.
But I agree that the case may be different for the widget shipping with Slackware 14.1 and KDE 4.10.5...

Eric

fsLeg · 11-13-2014, 01:02 PM

While we are at the NetworkManager topic, I had some troubles to make it connect to any Wi-Fi network after suspend or hibernation on my laptop. The only solution that worked for me was using both these methods: `SUSPEND_MODULES` in /etc/pm/config.d/config and `nmcli nm sleep true|false` in /etc/pm/sleep.d/55NetworkManager.

I hope this helps if some of your clients encounters this problem.

mostlyharmless · 11-15-2014, 01:47 PM

So, installed MLED over existing slackware 14.1 64 with multilib already installed. Yes, I know, not exactly according to instructions. I noticed that the slackware install multilib step in the instructions failed to work owing to "target not found".

Code:

Looking for SLACKPKGPLUS_multilib in package list. Please wait... DONE

No packages match the pattern for upgrade. Try:

        /usr/sbin/slackpkg install|reinstall

Everything seems ok; I think I've got to copy over /etc/skel to my profile, according to a previous post. Any suggestions before I continue to shoot myself in the foot? A possible guide for installation on previously installed Slackware was mentioned at some point...

kikinovak · 11-15-2014, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mostlyharmless

So, installed MLED over existing slackware 14.1 64 with multilib already installed. Yes, I know, not exactly according to instructions. I noticed that the slackware install multilib step in the instructions failed to work owing to "target not found".

Do you have the slackpkg+-1.3.2-noarch-2_microlinux package installed? I tweaked it, and it comes preconfigured. Apparently your multilib repo is not configured well.

mostlyharmless · 11-15-2014, 07:22 PM

Yes, it's installed I did (from http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/L...4bit-HOWTO.txt)

Code:

git clone https://github.com/kikinovak/slackware 
links http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/
 
Navigate to the 'desktop-base-14.1-64bit/slackware64/ap/' subdirectory. Grab
the 'slackpkg+' package from the repository (use the [D] key in the Links
browser to download it) and install it:

  # installpkg slackpkg+-1.3.2-noarch-2_microlinux.txz  

slackpkg update gpg 
slackpkg update 
cd slackware/desktop-kde-14.1-64bit/tools/ 
./trim_desktop_kde.sh 
slackpkg upgrade-all 

and then

slackpkg install multilib

The last step gave the error posted earlier.

kikinovak · 11-15-2014, 10:27 PM

Check if your /etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf file looks like this:

http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/d....x86_64.sample

Did you have slackpkg+ installed on your PC previous to the MLED installation?

mostlyharmless · 11-16-2014, 08:44 AM

Looks identical with this appended after:

Code:

#Supports GPG
#slackpkgplus:  http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/
#multilib:      http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/
#alienbob:      http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{x86,x86_64}/
#ktown:         http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/latest/{x86,x86_64}/
#restricted:    http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{x86,x86_64}/
#slacky:        http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware{,64}-{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
#mled:          http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/MLED-{14.0,14.1}-{32,64}bit/
#mles:          http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/MLES-{14.0,14.1}-{32,64}bit/
#msb:           http://slackware.org.uk/msb/{14.0,14.1}/{1.6,1.8}/{x86,x86_64}/
#slackers:      http://www.slackers.it/repository/
#slacke17:      http://ngc891.blogdns.net/pub/slacke17/slackware{,64,arm}-{14.0,14.1}/
#studioware:    http://studioware.org/files/packages/slackware{,64}-{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
#slackonly:      http://slackonly.com/pub/packages/14.1-x86_64/
#
#Does NOT support GPG
#salixos(*):    http://download.salixos.org/{i486,x86_64}/{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
#salixext:      http://people.salixos.org/ralvex/repository/x86_64/{14.0,14.1}/
#rlworkman(*):  http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
#slackel:       http://www.slackel.gr/repo/{i486,x86_64}/current/

I did not have slackpkgplus installed. Perhaps something is wrong with my slackpkg.

kikinovak · 11-16-2014, 03:28 PM

slackpkg and slackpkg+ are two different packages. Read the Installation Guide again, more carefully.

mostlyharmless · 11-17-2014, 08:22 AM

Yes I know they are separate. Perhaps I did not make it clear: I did not have slackpkg+ installed prior to installing MLED. I merely pointed out that perhaps slackpkg was part of the problem, since we had verified that slackpkg+ was installed and that the configuration file was as above. The only part of the instructions not followed, as I made clear from the start, was starting from an installed system.

Well, it is academic in a way. I decided to upgrade the whole system to current, figuring that would take care of any residual version nonsense. In doing so, I have come to the conclusion that the behaviour observed when trying to execute 'slackpkg install multilib' on a system with multilib already installed is the normal and expected answer: there is no upgrade target because it is not a new version. I observed similar messages while using slackpkg (not +) and upgrading to -current, when it encountered packages I had already upgraded.

kikinovak · 11-17-2014, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mostlyharmless

I decided to upgrade the whole system to current, figuring that would take care of any residual version nonsense.

MLED is not compatible with current.

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