Hi,
I'm looking for some script or instructions how to do a minimal Slackware installation. When i choice only A package series The Slack installer will install only the needed to run Slackware, when I choice A+N package series The Slack installer will install everything from N package series that is e.g. Ifconfig, Apache, Bind etc. I'm looking for something like a Debian minimal installation but of Slack.
Thanks in advance

That's funny, I just tried that a couple of hours ago.
It worked well.
Just select the A series, and pick dhcpcd and autofs in n for having a functional network and I think autofs is for mounting cdrom in /dev.
Reboot, it should boot fine.
Mount your slackware dvd with all the package on it, go on the /ap series, and install slackpkg.
After, you can install other package in a faster way.
For xorg, you must install

-xorg-server
-xinit
-xf86-video-(yourdriver)
-mesa
-libdrm
-xf86-input-mouse
-xf86-input-keyboard
-xf86-input-evdev

Then, you could try to do startx or xinit, and it will try to start, but it will fail. It would tell you what library is missing, you just slackpkg install the package. If it tells that's something is missing, but you can't find it, google it, sometimes the library is not the package itself, it have a different name.
It's important to install the glib and glibc package too.

For me, after all this, I had a working minimal installation of 1.7 GB, with firefox and thunderbird.

And if you try installing more application, just try it to launche in a terminal before, if a library is missing for the program is missing, it will tell you, and 90% of the time, it's just a package that you can install with slackpkg.

Good Luck.

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Hello olodial, welcome to the forum,

could you please explain why you want to have a minimal installation? How much space does the drive have? do you need the X-server?

It is important to note, that Slackware's default is a full installation. Here's no packagemanager which installs a huge amount of packages as "dependencies". At this point Debian and Slackware are different.

You can without problems leave the y (games), t (TeX/LaTeX), e (Emacs), kde/kdei (KDE and it's localization) uninstalled. If you're new to Linux I would recommend to install f (Howtos and faqs), if you're experienced you can omit it.

If you don't even need the X-server, you can omit x and xap.

Furthermore you can omit several packages of the ap, l and n series if you're sure that you don't need them. For example several text-editors, shells or the samba package. And in the d series you can omit languages which you don't need.

Markus

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There is no need to install these three at the same time. If you are using udev's hotplugging you only need evdev. Mouse and keyboard are only used if you explicitly disable input hotplugging in your xorg.conf.

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This will give you a good working minimal install (about 250MB Installed)

a/aaa_base \
a/aaa_elflibs \
a/aaa_terminfo \
a/acl \
a/attr \
a/bash \
a/bin \
a/bzip2 \
a/coreutils \
a/cxxlibs \
a/dbus \
a/dcron \
a/devs \
a/dialog \
a/e2fsprogs \
a/ed \
a/etc \
a/file \
a/lvm2 \
a/findutils \
a/gawk \
a/gettext \
a/getty-ps \
a/glibc-solibs \
a/glibc-zoneinfo \
a/grep \
a/gzip \
a/kbd \
a/kernel-modules* \
a/kernel_[a-z]* \
a/jfsutils \
a/inotify-tools \
a/module-init-tools \
a/mtd-utils \
a/openssl-solibs \
a/pkgtools \
a/procps \
a/reiserfsprogs \
a/shadow \
a/sed \
a/sysklogd \
a/sysvinit \
a/sysvinit-scripts \
a/tar \
a/u-boot-tools \
a/udev \
a/usbutils \
a/util-linux \
a/which \
a/xfsprogs \
a/xz
ap/vim \
ap/nano \
n/dhcpcd \
n/lftp \
n/links \
n/network-scripts \
n/nfs-utils \
n/ntp \
n/iputils* \
n/net-tools \
n/iproute2 \
n/openssh \
n/portmap \
n/rsync \
n/telnet \
n/traceroute \
n/wget \
l/lzo

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Everybody, thanks for answers.

ottavio - That's what I'm looking for. I will print this list.

markush - 120GB but I don't want to install unneeded software. I just need a minimal working Linux with networking and ability to build software from sources. I was forgot about this yesterday.

Could anybody tell me which packages I will need to building software from sources (Apache, PHP, MySQL, BIND)?

you will need many packages from the d and the l series, PHP and Apache are in n

Markus

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slackpkg can work with template, it is basically just a list of all packages that are installed. When you have a minimal slackware working installation, just create a template, and if you have to reinstall slackware, you can use the template and it will all install the packages by itself.

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Sure. Just check here for LAMP.
For BIND you will only need openssl-solibs (I think) which I already include in the minimal install.

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