I'm honestly too lazy to type out an entire walkthrough.... so here are a couple links to the community documentation and a video I tossed together.
How to do the thing: https://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Fun fact: I rarely have a question that has not already been asked. https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ And a youtube video walking through SlackBuild usage in real time: https://youtu.be/dAjfZD8Am3A VirtualBox is more or less the same. However, for virtualbox there are a few additional steps, and 3, THREE packages. If you are coming from Ubuntu, the concept of dependencies may be new to you since they handle those as background installs. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:47 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 11/28/18 3:38 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > I thought you were running Slackware 14.2, > > You're right. > > > the link you posted says 14.1. > > That version of virtualbox is also a bit older, looks like they have > moved > > to 5.x. > > I've also never used pkgs.org. I haven't actually heard of anyone who > does > > so I've never really looked at them. > > > > Before getting fancy with virtualbox, I suggest learning a little bit > more > > about package management in Slackware. The process in Ubuntu was exactly > > the same, but now you get to do the magic yourself :) > > Take a look at http://slackbuilds.org/ > > Okay. Baby steps. > > > This is where a lot of us install our packages from. We run SlackBuild > > scripts to automate the package creation process. > > VirtualBox is a beefy application with lots of moving parts, so I suggest > > starting simple with a smaller program, and scale up from there. > > > > Chances are you don't have all the dependencies for VirtualBox, so take a > > look at the SlackBuilds page, and some of their howto's for a better > > understanding of what you need to have installed, and how. > > You may want to walk through one of the smaller SlackBuild scripts to get > > used to the process. Later tonight I might be able to post a step-by-step > > for getting something like VirtualBox installed on Slackware. > > > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
