[SOLVED] Installing slackware-current with AlienBOBs plasma5

Ramurd · 02-04-2020, 03:37 AM

Hi there,

For some time I'm trying to setup my machine to Slackware-current (I can manage that), along with AlienBOBs ktown.

The way I went was this; install slackpkg+
in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors I set the active url to slackware64-current

/etc/slackpkg/blacklist is empty

/etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf is configured as follows:

Code:

SLACKPKGPLUS=on
PKGS_PRIORITY=(current:.* multilib:.* restricted_current:.* restricted:.* alienbob_current:.* alienbob:.* ktown:.*)
REPOPLUS=(current slackpkgplus multilib ktown alienbob alienbob_current restricted)
MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/14.2/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['restricted']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/14.2/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/
MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/current/
MIRRORPLUS['alienbob_current']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/current/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['restricted_current']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/current/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['ktown']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/latest/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['current']=https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/

I ran xwmconfig and setup xinitrc.plasma

Yet I am doing something wrong as I cannot start X; which I eventually managed to drill down to the loading of shared library libphonon4qt5experimental.so.4 (which indeed is not in the phonon package I currently have installed, and managed to find in another phonon package, which I cannot select in slackpkg:

Code:

slackpkg search phonon

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

The list below shows all packages with name matching "phonon".

[ Status           ] [ Repository               ] [ Package                                  ]
   installed               current                      phonon-4.8.3-x86_64-3_alsa
   installed               current                      phonon-gstreamer-4.8.2-x86_64-2
   installed               ktown                        phonon-qt4-4.10.2-x86_64-1alien
   installed               ktown                        phonon-qt4-gstreamer-4.9.0-x86_64-1alien
   installed               ktown                        phonon-vlc-0.11.1-x86_64-1alien
  uninstalled(masked)      current                      phonon-4.8.3-x86_64-3
  uninstalled(masked)      ktown                        phonon-4.11.1-x86_64-1alien
  uninstalled(masked)      ktown                        phonon-gstreamer-4.10.0-x86_64-1alien
  uninstalled(masked)      slackware64                  phonon-4.8.3-x86_64-3

indeed, I need the phonon 4.11.1 as that one contains the missing library; however, it is masked... so I guess that is the real issue here... and I think I did something wrong with my slackpkgplus configuration...

Ideas?

business_kid · 02-04-2020, 04:25 AM

http://bear.alienbase.nl/

That's alien's site. Search there for a doc on how to do it. You'll hardly succeed without such. Having nothing in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist is unwise. There's basic files like aaa_elflibs and glibc-solibs which can cut the legs from under whatever programs you're running if you upgrade them and try to carry on.

Ramurd · 02-04-2020, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

http://bear.alienbase.nl/

That's alien's site. Search there for a doc on how to do it. You'll hardly succeed without such. Having nothing in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist is unwise. There's basic files like aaa_elflibs and glibc-solibs which can cut the legs from under whatever programs you're running if you upgrade them and try to carry on.

I have read the documentation; and I think there is actually something wrong with the order of the mirrors.

If you look close at the blacklist file, it does not contain anything by default. (except comments, one of which -in fact- expresses to NOT blacklist aaa_elflibs)
Currently I am trying things out on a vm to see if things will keep working; as soon as I manage to get everything started (and get my own packages rebuilt) I will make the switch.

business_kid · 02-05-2020, 04:10 AM

Sorry about aaa_elflibs, haven't done it except off the page. I tried slackpkg and hosed the system once. Fortunately I had a backup.There's also slackroll The VMis an excellent notion.

enine · 02-05-2020, 10:32 AM

I just did this myself a couple days ago Installed the full -current then copied AlienBob's ktown local. remove old kde as per his instructions and install/upgrade the rest as per his instructions.

everything went fine, didn't need slackpkg+ or anything like that.

Alien Bob · 02-05-2020, 01:46 PM

You have:

Code:

SLACKPKGPLUS=on
PKGS_PRIORITY=(current:.* multilib:.* restricted_current:.* restricted:.* alienbob_current:.* alienbob:.* ktown:.*)
REPOPLUS=(current slackpkgplus multilib ktown alienbob alienbob_current restricted)
MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/14.2/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['restricted']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/14.2/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/
MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/current/
MIRRORPLUS['alienbob_current']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/current/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['restricted_current']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/current/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['ktown']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/latest/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['current']=https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/

Which is two errors wrapped together.
First, you should never configure the actual official Slackware repository in slackpkgplus.conf as this file is only for the non-official 3rd party repositories.
Furthermore, you put this 'current' repository at the front row so that it has precedence over all the other repositories.

And by the way, you can remove the wildcard ':.*' from all those repositories in PKGS_PRIORITY, that has not been necessary for many versions of slackpkg+ now.

Ramurd · 02-11-2020, 10:16 AM

Thanks! I was not aware that the official Slackware repository should not be part of slackpgplus.conf; Corrected now along with the wildcards. I'll keep you posted (and will flag this as solved when I have completed the new run)

This, indeed, fixed it; I now have a splendid plasma5 desktop! Thanks!