Using slackware

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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

slackware

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 (

mirrors

) has all the software available in slackware, it can be used offline.

Slackware 15 download

The

slackbuilds

site has a lot of additional packages, I found everything I usually install in debian.

In my

setup script

, 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:

a full install has a lot of software

slackware tools are shell scripts, they have few dependencies

the boot manager is lilo

the complete distribution is on a single dvd

My install steps are listed in

install.txt

.

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:

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:

When using current branch, sbotools refuses to work because slackware version 15.0+ is unsupported.

Hashtag: #slackware

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