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date: 2023-09-14 14:38:31
categories: linux
firstPublishDate: 2023-09-14 14:38:31
I recently started to use
for my desktop, I tried it a few time in the past and didn't take the time to create a setup.
The install dvd (
) has all the software available in slackware, it can be used offline.
The
site has a lot of additional packages, I found everything I usually install in debian.
In my
, I install `sbotools` which is the package manager for slackbuilds. The command `sboinstall` installs packages and their dependencies.
The packages are compiled and then installed.
What I like in slackware:
My install steps are listed in
.
In the normal install, the setup script asks less questions than the debian installer, it doesn't setup the network. When the setup is done, a lot of software is preinstalled in the system and ready to be used. In the minimal install, I deselect about 400 packages.
The packages are less granular than in debian (to get qmake, the qt5 package has to be installed and in the debian there is the qt5-qmake package)
I find the setup of self compiled linux kernels quite straight forward and without issues, lilo is simple to configure:
Here the steps for compiling the linux kernel
I upgraded the system to current branch and it crashed:
slackpkg update slackpkg install-new slackpkg upgrade-all
wget was not working anymore after install-new (a new wget was installed but the new glibc was missing because it was to be upgraded with upgrade-all), I reinstalled and ran update-all first and then install-new.
Upgrade to current
https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:current
The command order that works is:
slackpkg update slackpkg upgrade-all slackpkg install-new slackpkg clean-system
When using current branch, sbotools refuses to work because slackware version 15.0+ is unsupported.
Hashtag: #slackware