Trying to install SLiM
OK, now that I'm up and running with Slackware, I'm customizing.
I run Xfce only, enabled runlevel:4, which defaults to a VERY generic login manager (xdm?). So, wanting to dive into installing SlackBuilds, I downloaded SLiM, and installed (I think?), following these leads/instructions: http://slackwiki.com/SLiM http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/system/slim/ http://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Everything seemed to install OK after running the slim.SlackBuild script in the terminal, and I logged out to test, but there's no SLiM login screen, just the generic (xdm?) still. There's no "/slim/themes" in "/usr/share". But there are files listed in /tmp that seem to indicate that everything was installed. How do I troubleshoot/fix my SLiM installation? |
According http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:window_managers:slim you have to run xwmconfig before you can use slim (which, apparently, will overwrite your current .xinitrc), maybe try that, if you haven't already?
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Did you add
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if [ -x /usr/bin/slim ]; then And what does Code:
$ which slim EDIT: If you don't have /usr/share/slim then you did not correctly install slim. Did you run the slackbuild script as root? |
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Output for $ which slim: Code:
which: no slim in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt/bin:.) |
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So slim is not installed on your system.
Something like this should do it: Code:
$ wget http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.0/system/slim.tar.gz |
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root@garcia:~# cd /home/john/slim |
Maybe the script should be set executable?
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# chmod +x slim.Slackbuild |
i guess you have downloaded slim.tar.gz and slim-1.3.2.tar.gz from browser and kept in same folder.
untar silm.tar.gz (tar xvzf) go to slim directory move slim-1.3.2.tar.gz file to the slim directory chmod +x slim.Slackbuild nuw run slim.slackbuild txz package will be in /tmp |
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OK, I went back to square one, and successfully got SLiM installed and configured. Thank you everyone for your help!
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There already is sbopkg (http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...es_with_sbopkg) - CLI tool to handle SlackBuilds from slackbuilds.org Instead of all steps above, just run as root Code:
$ sbopkg -i slim |
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