When and what do you expect from Slackware 15?

cwizardone · 01-09-2019, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by williegates

Where can I get one that reads:

Ubuntu [Ŭ-ˈbʌn-tű ] - An African work meaning Slackware was too hard for me.

Good one!
Thanks!

Lysander666 · 01-10-2019, 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by williegates

Where can I get one that reads:

Ubuntu [Ŭ-ˈbʌn-tű ] - An African work meaning Slackware was too hard for me.

This is an old joke, the version I first heard was, "Ubuntu is an ancient African word that means: I do not know how to install Debian."

From Uncyclopedia.

EDIT: I also note the Cthulhu reference in that article. Maybe that's where I got the blog idea from, can't remember now. I claim cryptomnesia.

bam80 · 03-06-2019, 06:53 PM

It became too long.. The soft is outdated, involving more and more problems on updating it manually.
I spent all the day today just to fuguring out the better way to upgrade my Vim..
Really frustrating

FlinchX · 03-07-2019, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by bam80

I spent all the day today just to fuguring out the better way to upgrade my Vim..

Grabbing the buildscript from -current and building vim8 for 14.2 worked for me. Though it's the only thing I needed.

igadoter · 03-07-2019, 03:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam80

It became too long.. The soft is outdated, involving more and more problems on updating it manually.
I spent all the day today just to fuguring out the better way to upgrade my Vim..
Really frustrating

I don't think Slackware is about novelty or easy of use (whatever that means) - in time I installed it was about to be stable, to run on even very old hardware. I don't think Plasma5 fit that latter description. Slackware evolves in the time - but comparing to the other distributions - rather slow. The are distributions considered to be 'edge' - but it is not about Slackware - Slackware offers good price in terms of novelty/stability - speaking figuratively.

montagdude · 03-07-2019, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlinchX

Grabbing the buildscript from -current and building vim8 for 14.2 worked for me. Though it's the only thing I needed.

Yup, you can very easily update quite a lot of things that way without ill side effects, as long as you know what packages not to mess with. Try doing that on any other distro and watch the package manager go nuts.

bassmadrigal · 03-07-2019, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam80

It became too long.. The soft is outdated, involving more and more problems on updating it manually.
I spent all the day today just to fuguring out the better way to upgrade my Vim..
Really frustrating

The only program I've run into problems compiling that I really want on 14.2 is kodi v18. It needs a newer version of mesa unless I want to disable VAAPI decoding. There are others that I've run into that are unable to be upgraded, but there weren't any killer features that made me disappointed they couldn't be upgraded.

bam80 · 03-07-2019, 10:57 AM

bassmadrigal, you could try Flathub Kodi build possibly, but please lets stay on topic.

Drakeo · 03-07-2019, 10:59 AM

no bloat. Just add Geany in extra.

bam80 · 03-07-2019, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Drakeo

no bloat

That is why I suggested Flatpak.

About vim.SlackBuild, how do you guys download the script directory stuff?
I tried something like

Code:

wget -r -np -R "index.html*" https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim/

but it always gives me a bunch of garbage in load:

Quote:

-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 7559 Jan 11 23:44 vim.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 49 Mar 7 18:29 vim.SlackBuild.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 12881 Mar 7 18:29 vim.SlackBuild.meta4
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 14352 Mar 7 18:29 vim.SlackBuild.metalink
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 22772 Mar 7 18:29 vim.SlackBuild.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 57 Mar 7 18:29 vim.SlackBuild.sha1
-rw-r--r-- 1 bam bam 81 Mar 7 18:29 vim.SlackBuild.sha256

ponce · 03-07-2019, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam80

how do you guys download the script directory stuff?

Code:

rsync -avP rsync://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim/ vim

average_user · 03-07-2019, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam80

About vim.SlackBuild, how do you guys download the script directory stuff?
I tried something like

Code:

wget -r -np -R "index.html*" https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim/

but it always gives me a bunch of garbage in load:

You got them because you requested them. I use lftp:

Code:

θ70° [ja:/media/data/vim-garbage] $ mkcd /tmp/vim-dl
θ72° [ja:/tmp/vim-dl] $ lftp slackware
cd: received redirection to `https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.2/'
cd ok, cwd=/slackware/slackware64-14.2
lftp mirrors.slackware.com:/slackware/slackware64-14.2> cd ../slackware64-current/source/ap/vim
cd: received redirection to `https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim/'
cd ok, cwd=/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim
lftp mirrors.slackware.com:/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim> mget *
9446084 bytes transferred in 5 seconds (1.74 MiB/s)
Total 18 files transferred
lftp mirrors.slackware.com:/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim> exit
θ70° [ja:/tmp/vim-dl] $ ll
total 9.1M
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 8.1K Jan 19  2006 gvim.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  118 Aug 24  2006 doinst.sh.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 293K Jul 10  2009 ctags-5.8.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  834 Feb 27  2018 slack-desc.vim
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  959 Mar 15  2018 slack-desc.vim-gvim
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 6.1K Nov 14 00:29 vim-gvim.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  283 Jan 11 21:43 vim.vimrc.diff.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 7.4K Jan 11 21:44 vim.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 8.6M Feb 27 22:30 vim-8.1.0984.tar.lz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  23K Mar  7 22:35 ctags-5.8.tar.xz.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  22K Mar  7 22:35 doinst.sh.gz.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  22K Mar  7 22:35 gvim.png.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  24K Mar  7 22:35 slack-desc.vim-gvim.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  23K Mar  7 22:35 slack-desc.vim.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  23K Mar  7 22:35 vim-8.1.0984.tar.lz.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  24K Mar  7 22:35 vim-gvim.SlackBuild.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  23K Mar  7 22:35 vim.SlackBuild.mirrorlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  23K Mar  7 22:35 vim.vimrc.diff.gz.mirrorlist
θ69° [ja:/tmp/vim-dl] $ rm *mirrorlist
θ68° [ja:/tmp/vim-dl] $ ll
total 8.9M
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 8.1K Jan 19  2006 gvim.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  118 Aug 24  2006 doinst.sh.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 293K Jul 10  2009 ctags-5.8.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  834 Feb 27  2018 slack-desc.vim
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  959 Mar 15  2018 slack-desc.vim-gvim
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 6.1K Nov 14 00:29 vim-gvim.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users  283 Jan 11 21:43 vim.vimrc.diff.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 7.4K Jan 11 21:44 vim.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja users 8.6M Feb 27 22:30 vim-8.1.0984.tar.lz

bam80 · 03-07-2019, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by average_user

You got them because you requested them. I use lftp

Ok thanks. Just didn't find equivalence for wget/curl..

bam80 · 03-07-2019, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montagdude

Yup, you can very easily update quite a lot of things that way without ill side effects, as long as you know what packages not to mess with. Try doing that on any other distro and watch the package manager go nuts.

I got nuts in Slack trying to force work Vim8 from -current in 14.2

(I hate to compile anything without needing)

Didier Spaier · 03-07-2019, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bam80

Ok thanks. Just didn't find equivalence for wget/curl..

Code:

lftp -c "mirror http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/vim/"

There's more than one way...