On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Francois wrote:
It still puzzle me that this tetex-latex package is not to be found in Slackware...
Francios, On the "official" Slackware distribution disk set it's in <root>/slackware/t/. On my 11.0 disk #2 is: ./t ./t/install-packages ./t/install.end ./t/maketag ./t/maketag.ez ./t/tagfile ./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz ./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc ./t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.txt ./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz ./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz.asc ./t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.txt ./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz ./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.tgz.asc ./t/transfig-3.2.4-i386-1.txt ./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz ./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.tgz.asc ./t/xfig-3.2.4-i486-1.txt Plus all the tcl stuff, and more.
I think I have a problem if I have to install everything that's in the /d directory, because it has kernel-headers 2.4 and I have a kernel 2.6 installed... Isnt that a problem? If it is then I would consider downloading the /d directory from the Slackware-version that was used to build the Vector-Linux5.1 (I think it's slack-10.2, but I check that). There are quite a lot of things in that directory, do I need all of them?
I'm still running the 2.4.x kernel on my systems because there's nothing in the 2.6.x series that I need for the hardware here. Patrick keeps the 2.4 as the default. Regardless, if you want to use the 2.6 kernel, then you need the 2.6 kernel-headers, too. If you have a high-speed connection (or use bit-torrent), you can get the 11.0 .iso images from http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-11.0-iso/. It has all the files and patches and is faster than slackware.com. You probably don't _need_ cscope, CLISP, cvs, distcc, doxygen, rcs, or subversion. The rest, yes. Read the package descriptions and you'll gain more insight. Also, since you're running on older, slower hardware, take a close look at Xfce <http://www.xfce.org/> as a window/desktop manager. It's all I've used since it came out and it's lighter on resources (and faster) than KDE or Gnome. Unless, of course, you want your desktop to look just like one from Winduhs. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | Accelerator <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
