Announcing Slackware Linux 11!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:06:27 GMT  <== Computers ==> 

Patrick J. Volkerding at Slackware.com - I spent a few hours this evening upgrading my Slackware machine from version 10.2 to 11.0, after waiting most of the day for the 1.2 gig download of the two installer CDs. There were MD5 checksum errors, but only in a couple of the included installer files, so I copied them all from the CD image to my hard drive, and replaced the two bad ones from the Slackware FTP site. The UPGRADE.TXT directions worked like a charm, and my new version came up quickly. There was only one glitch. My Grub "menu.lst" file, which worked fine for 10.2, caused 11.0 to complain about the root volume being mounted read-write. Still booted, but only after pausing to let me read that warning. Turns out I had to add "ro" to the end of the "kernel" line:

title Slackware (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro

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I got Gnumeric working in Slackware 11.0

Submitted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:37:44 GMT

I got Gnumeric working in Slackware 11. It took a while, but I did it by downloading the packages from the Slackware 10.1 distribution, the last one to include Gnome, continuing to download and install libraries until Gnumeric started up. It's only version 1.2.13, but it still works much better than KSpread.

All but one of the packages were in the 10.1 "gnome" directory on ftp://ftp.slackware.com/. And I simply ran installpkg on all but that one:

gconf-2.6.2-i486-1.tgz
gnome-keyring-0.2.1-i486-1.tgz
gnumeric-1.2.13-i486-1.tgz
libbonobo-2.6.2-i486-1.tgz
libbonoboui-2.6.1-i486-1.tgz
libgnome-2.6.1.1-i486-2.tgz
libgnomeprint-2.6.1-i486-1.tgz
libgnomeprintui-2.6.1-i486-1.tgz
libgnomeui-2.6.1.1-i486-1.tgz
orbit2-2.10.2-i486-1.tgz

There was one library that took me a while to find: libgsf-gnome-1.so.1. It was in libgsf-1.9.1-i486-1.tgz in the "l" directory. I did NOT run installpkg on it, since that would have overwritten /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so. Instead, I used tar to extract libgsf-gnome-1.la and libgsf-gnome-1.so.1.9.1 from the tgz file, put them in /usr/lib, created libgsf-gnome-1.so.1 as a soft link to libgsf-gnome-1.so.1.9.1 and created libgsf-1.so.1 as a soft-link to the existing libgsf-1.so.* library (in Slackware 11.0, this is libgsf-1.so.114.0.1.

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I cant get gnumeric working

Submitted by Rita on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:16:12 GMT

hi there.. I tried to follow your 'tutorial' and it didnt work. I can not get gnumeric runnin' on my Slack 10.2.: the softlink isnt working!
Ideas?
Cheers, Rita

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Me too

Submitted by adrian on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:01:19 GMT

I did exactly what you said and it now wants libgnome-2.so.0 if I install libgnome-2.6.1.1-i486-2 then it asks for libgnomevfs of some version. I cannot find where that might be in teh slack packages. (It doesn't appear to be a package but perhaps it is built into some package.)

I think you must have some other stuff installed too. I did a straight up 11.0 install minus KDE....

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Doh! Nevermind...

Submitted by adrian on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:14:48 GMT

It is in the gnome vfs package right there in the gnome directory. I had to install that one and the gnomecanvas package to finally get it to run. I am runnign the 2.4 stock kernel that comes with 11.0, by the way -- I don't know if that makes a difference. I'm betting, though, that you have KDE installed....

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Yes, I have KDE installed

Submitted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:21:13 GMT

Yes, I have KDE installed. I installed everything on the first two CDs.

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