Just trying to load Chromium and got this. Where is libpulse supposed to go once found?
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: error while loading shared libraries: libpulse.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

hi Stalfonso2, welcome to LQ!

Slackware from version 14.2 should already provide libpulse in its default installation: which version of chromium have you downloaded (post the link to the package please) and on which version of Slackware are you trying to run it?

Thanks.

Slackware.14.1. 32bit Arch
chromium-is...74.0.3729.108-i586-1alien.txz

that version of chromium has been built for slackware current, not slackware 14.1 (that doesn't even ship pulseaudio), I strongly doubt it will run on that platform...

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For Slackware 14.1 you will need an older build of chromium, like
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...486-1alien.txz
or will have to compile it yourself from source.

The latest version Eric/Alien Bob has compiled for 14.1 is 56.0.2924.76-i486-1alien.txz.

Newer versions of Chromium are probably unable to be compiled on such an old system (14.1 was released back in 2013). Looking through his blog, the last post I could find that included chromium and 14.1 was this one explaining that chromium is broken on 14.1 unless you use it on KDE. After the frustrations with that, he might've decided it wasn't worth trying to still put out updates for it, or newer source may just not compile.

EDIT: Far too slow

Might try KDE. Thanks for your help everyone.

KDE won't fix the issue you're having. That was just the frustration he ran into when he was building that last version for 14.1.

The problem is the chromium you're installing was built on a different system, so it expects different libraries. The one that is visible now is pulseaudio. That version of chromium was built against the pulseaudio included in 14.2. 14.1 lacks it. Even if you install a compatible pulseaudio, there's a strong possibility that there will be other programs missing or outdated and will still prevent chromium from running.

Your best option is to either try and build it yourself (if it even works) or switch to a different browser that will work better on an older system.