On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
All sbopkg's sync does is sync its local repo with SBo's online repo.
Jeremy,
I know that and have been using it that way for a long time.
However, since sbopkg itself doesn't track dependencies (that is kinda done
with sqg),
Aha! I knew there
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, B Watson wrote:
Are you sure you didn't run the script with the AVAHI variable set
in the environment?
B,
Yes.
From looking at the SlackBuild, it needs to be either unset, set to ""
(empty), or set to "no" (lowercase), to build without avahi. If it were
set to anything
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, B Watson wrote:
Since I don't use saga-gis, or even have a very clear idea what it does, I
have to ask... is it even useful to build saga-gis without postgresql
support? Is that a rarely-used feature, or is it something that would
basically cripple saga-gis if it were
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Erich Ritz wrote:
# grep wxcrtvararg.h /var/log/packages/*
/var/log/packages/wxGTK3-3.0.5-x86_64-1_SBo:usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/wxcrtvararg.h
Erich,
Mea culpa! I built the package last evening and obvousily forgot to install
it. Sigh.
Thanks,
Rich
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
I don't know what to tell you. The SlackBuild defaults to disabling nmea
unless the AVAHI variable is set to anything other than "no". If it is
left unset, nmea is disabled.
The only other thing to check would be running the script with bash -x to
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
Those are taken directly from the SlackBuild script. It's how the script
determines whether or not to pass --disable-nmea-source to the configure
script.
Jeremy,
Thanks for pointing me to the problem and its solution.
When I went to rebuild geoclue2
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, B Watson wrote:
This is wrong. "tee" won't capture the standard error stream, only
standard output. Since we're asking to see *error* messages, we need
the stderr.
A build log with STDOUT and STDERR redirected to it is attached. While
geoclue built geoclue2 still will
The saga-gis page shows wxGTK3 as a requirement. With that installed saga
requested a unicode wxGTK. Installed that one, too. Now with both installed
(and I no longer use wxPython so there's no conflict with wxGTK) the saga
build fails to find wxcrtvararg.h because it is missing.
What other
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Dave Woodfall wrote:
You don't mount CDs or DVDs to write to them.
Dave,
It was a long time since I last burned a disk so I rediscovered the need to
keep it unmounted.
Thanks,
Rich
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
Not necessarily your mistake, but something's definitely not quite right on
your system.
Ricardo,
That makes many of us.
/usr/local/include/cdda_interface.h:87:31: error: expected ‘:’ before ‘;’
token cdda_private_data_t *private;
In my
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Erich Ritz wrote:
Perhaps it meant to reference this?
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/libraries/atlas/README.SLACKWARE
which instructs you to do:
/etc/rc.d/rc.cpufreq performance
Erich,
I saw the README.SLACKWARE file but was looking for the INSTALL.txt file the
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote:
If you already use sbopkg to update your packages, you can also use it to
install new packages:
$ sudo sbopkg -i "package-name"
It won't install dependencies (you can use sqg as suggested elsewhere) but at
least you won't have to manually
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
This is likely something that's in the source tarball and resides in the
/tmp/SBo/atlas-$VERSION directory. It wouldn't be something on SBo if it's
referenced by the source itself.
Jeremy,
Which is another reason to ignore it since there is an
Downloaded both the SlackBuild and the source tarball for soundkonverter and
it fails to build. Looks to me like source code error. Compressed build log
attached.
Rich
soundkonverter-build.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
I just typed this as root:
sbopkg -r
sbopkg -i soundkonverter
Took a few minutes to build and install on Slint, based on Slackware64-4.2
Didier,
If it's user error I must be at fault, right?
/usr/local/include/cdda_interface.h:87:31: error:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote:
/usr/local/include/cdda_interface.h:87:31: error: expected ‘:’ before ‘;’
token
cdda_private_data_t *private;
^
CMakeFiles/soundkonverter.dir/build.make:62: recipe for target
'CMakeFiles/soundkonverter.dir
Downloaded both the SlackBuild and the source tarball for soundkonverter and
it fails to build. Looks to me like source code error. Compressed build log
attached.
Rich
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
Is pygobject3-3.18.2 (included in Slacwkare64-14.2) installed as it should
be?
Didier,
For some reason it wasn't installed. I have the SBo pygobject3 installed and
was unaware there was one in the core distribution.
It's now installed and avahi is
Trying to build avahi fails here:
checking for PYGOBJECT... no
configure: error: Could not find Python GObject
Installed here are:
pygobject-2.28.6-x86_64-2
pygobject3-python3-3.18.2-x86_64-1_SBo
And I just re-installed pygobject-2.28.6. It's located in
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pygobject
I had an SBo chromium package installed. Now I don't find one in the SBo
repo or in the core distribution.
Is there one available?
Rich
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
So in the future please check that you have a full Slackware installation
before asking for help in this list or on LQ.
This has been reminded many times.
Didier.
When I ran 'slackpkg --upgrade-all --install-new' I assumed it provided a
full
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
There was one on SBo, but it was horribly outdated and was likely removed
because of security issues.
Jeremy,
Yes, the files are dated 2018. There are some websites that don't support
firefox but do support chromium/chrome so it's good to have as a
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
If you want to install all uninstalled Slackware packages onto
your system, use the following
command instead of the install-new action:
# slackpkg install slackware.
Thank you.
Rich
The hardware has an AMD Ryzen7 2700 (8 cores/16 threads) and 32G RAM. I'm
trying to build atlas but it bails out because of throttling and references
its INSTALL.txt which I cannot find. The (compressed) build log is attached.
I don't overclock and I hesitate to mess with the clock speed.
I've
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Dave Woodfall wrote:
Tried cdrecord yet?
Dave,
Ah, no. I had tried mounting the drive but it could not read superblocks
because the disk was blank. Then I look for cdrecord in /var/log/packages;
it's not there by itself but as part of cdrtools (which I missed),
That's
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
as root:
growisofs -speed=2 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=/path/to/the/ISO
Didier,
Thank you very much. I have not before known of growisofs.
In the mid-1990s, when I was learning linux, a system/network admin friend
told me that linux is really simple:
I just downloaded -current64 and tried to burn it to a DVD. xcdroast told me
that cdrecord and mkisofs are too old (see attached screenshot) with the
xcdroast-1.19 in the SBo repo.
Please suggest how I can put this file on a DVD-R.
Thanks in advance,
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
Caveat: I didn't build texlive-doc and texlive-extra at the same version
Didier,
Does that make a difference?
I'm getting all sorts of errors when building documents for a client so I
need to fix them by upgrading ASAP.
Thanks,
Rich
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Didier Spaier wrote:
It all dpends if you need the additional features provided by
texlive-extra. Only you know.
I'll see. :-)
Thanks,
Rich
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My LaTeX/LyX documents throw a Biber/biblatex error when compiling with
pdflatex. The issue is having bibliographic database entry labels with
apostrophes, such as O'Conner. This was fixed in Biber 2.2 but the 14.2
version is 2.14. (Apostrophes in other value fields are okay as they're
enclosed
On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, Greg' Ar Tourter wrote:
Rich, this is not really what I am asking.
Greg,
Okay. I didn't fully understand your original post. I incorrectly thought it
was a build sequence issue, not a removed capability that other packages
have not yet accommodated.
Stay well,
Rich
On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, Franzen via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
Biber is in texlive-extra, so if you use the package from Didier, and
build
https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds/tree/current/office/texlive-extra you
should have a complete texlive2021 on 14.2
Thank you, Franzen.
There is a bug in
On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, David O'Shaughnessy wrote:
You can easily have the latest version of TeX Live installed if you use
the official installer (it's non-intrusive and installs to /usr/local by
default). Simply install and use tlmgr to keep up to date.
Dave,
I'll learn how to do this.
Thank
On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, Greg' Ar Tourter wrote:
I am trying to update proj to the latest 8.x version after taking
maintainership.
I have tested the new version will all its first level dependees and most
of them compile without any modifications:
- cartopy (taking over as well and updating to
Installed here is qt5-webkit-5.212.0_alpha4-x86_64-3_SBo.
Building qgis fails with a qt5-webkit version error:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:453 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:
/usr/lib64/cmake/Qt5WebKit/Qt5WebKitConfig.cmake
but it set Qt5WebKit_FOUND to FALSE so
On Sat, 2 Oct 2021, King Beowulf wrote:
On 14.2, make sure you know which gt5 you have installed (and make sure to
compile with qtwebengine support). also, if you upgraded qt5, you need to
recompile qt5-webkit. You may also need to have libwebp installed before
compiling qt5.
Ed,
Ah, I have
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote:
This is slackware version 14.2 specifically slint the international
version of slackware. I get the following high level errors when using
spi -i sofastats this happens with sbopkg on lower levels too even when
each of the missing packages is run with
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022, Didier Spaier wrote:
You can use on of the versions provided by Eric Hameleers, as mentioned on
his blog: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/
Didier,
Thank you. I will.
Rich
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I could not find chromium in an SBo repository and it's not part of the core
distribution. Is it no longer available for use in 15.0?
TIA,
Rich
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2022, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
Chromium was rarely updated, so it was removed from SBo in 2018.
Jeremy,
I didn't know that.
If you want to continue to use chromium, Alien Bob keeps chromium packages
and his SlackBuild available on his repo.
Yes, and he has an
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, Heiko Rosemann wrote:
yes, there is - from the git master:
https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/tree/office/gnucash
The content of that repo will become the 15.0 web repo when it's ready.
I can confirm that gnucash from that repo works on 15.0 (and also updating it
to
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
It's now official!!!
SlackBuilds Repository 15.0 is available to the public
Kudos and my thanks to everyone who devoted a lot of time and effort to
reach this point. As an end user who has run his professional services
consultantcy on
Is there a Gnucash available for 15.0?
I don't know where to look other than the SBo web repos.
Rich
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, King Beowulf wrote:
After that message there was "Hey, my shiny brass lamp is almost out of
fuel!"
Hopefully "real soon now!"
Ed,
I saw that the cave was closed (is that the home of the Clan of the Cave
Bear?) and that his shiny brass lamp was low on fuel but they meant
I'm using a 24" monitor. The default wmwebcam window size is 352x288 px.
It's a tiny square that displays one of my eyes and that's about all that
fits in there.
I modified customize.patch by setting the width to 800 and the height to
600, rebuilt, and reinstalled. The display window is the same
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
Please advise me how to adjust the wmwebcam window for use on a 24" (or
21") monitor.
Please ignore this request. I built webcam instead and it works better than
wmwebcam did.
Rich
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
Looking at the SBo pages for memtest86 and memtest86+ I did not see how
the differ ... if the do so significantly.
Oh, wait! Reading more carefully I see the + version has installation
instructions for ELILO systems. That's me.
Rich
Earlier this week my main desktop server/workstation hung about 01:00 and
needed to be rebooted. Twice (Sunday and Monday.) Yesterday and today it
stayed up as usual overnight.
I have replacement DIMMs but want to test the installed set first.
Looking at the SBo pages for memtest86 and
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, J. Milgram wrote:
memtest86 hung just a little way into the test. No problems reported, just
froze.
memtest86+ ran to the end (and found no problems.) So that's the one I kept.
And system has been behaving fine.
Judah,
Thanks for sharing. When I re-read both SBo pages
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, B. Watson wrote:
You also might want to install memtester. Unlike memtest86 and memtest86+,
it runs as a regular Linux process, meaning you don't have to reboot to
use it.
Its testing can't be as thorough (it can't test the memory that holds the
kernel + its modules for
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
Thank you, B. That's excellent advice and I'll follow it.
Slight discrepancy between the source file number and the SlackBuild script.
The Debian version is 4.6.0-1 while the build script version is 4.6.0_1. I
changed the latter to match the filename
I have ReText installed here, in /usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/ReText.
How do I run it to view (and edit) a markdown file?
It doesn't run from the command line and if I start python and load ReText
I've no idea how to view an .md file in a specified directory.
Thanks in advance,
Rich
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Erich Ritz wrote:
Then I typed
retext
at the command prompt and the ReText GUI opened up. I then opened up
/usr/doc/libjpeg-turbo-2.1.2/BUILDING.md (using the GUI) and it displays fine.
Erich,
Well, duh! The package and all references show it as ReText so that's what I
Here python3.7 is found in ~/.local/lib/site-packages/, /usr/bin/python3.7m,
/usr/bin/python3.7m-config, usr/bin/python3.7-config, usr/bin/python3.7, and
virtua environments in /usr/lib64/.
Trying to build gnumeric (and goffice is installed) fails:
CCLD python_loader.la
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Erich Ritz wrote:
Slackware 15.0 ships with python 3.9, not python 3.7. Looks like your
custom python 3.7 installation is interfering with the build.
Erich,
Okay. This host is still running 14.2 (for my business needs) and there
isn't a 14.2 gnumeric source file
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Petar Petrov wrote:
are you on Chrome?
The browser I use Brave which is based on Chrome.
Thanks,
Rich
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Erich Ritz wrote:
The 14.2 tree isn't updated but gnumeric is (was) available for it:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/office/gnumeric/
Erich,
The source wouldn't download from the 14.2 link.
I upgraded python3 from the 15.0 souce and gnumeric is up and running
The lyx.SlackBuild script has always worked just fine building new versions.
Until today. I downloaded lyx-2.3.7-1.tar.xz and modified lyx.SlackBuild for
that version number.
Running `lyx.SlackBuild` throws and error:
./lyx.SlackBuild: line 46: cd: lyx-2.3.7-1: No such file or directory
That
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, Μιχάλης Μιχαλούδης wrote:
or better change the version to 3.2.7
That's what I did. It generated errors later in the build so I'll pass the
logs to the lyx devs.
Thanks,
Rich
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, B. Watson wrote:
Note that Slackware package version numbers are not allowed to contain the
dash/hyphen character, so whatever you do will have to be a bit fancier
than setting VERSION="2.3.7-1". You'll have to set VERSION to something
like 2.3.7_1 and add a bit of code to
I downloaded and installed a new directory tarball, then downloaded the
64-bit source (cef_binary_4638_linux64.tar.bz2).
When root tries to build it it immediately fails:
# ./obs-studio.SlackBuild
tar:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
The SlackBuild script is using the commit number rather than the source
directory name:
PRGNAM=obs-studio
VERSION=${VERSION:-29.0.0.b3}
COMMIT=409cfa43357c6296f53dc08e47e032284fc5fba2
Looking further in the build script I find this:
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Christoph Willing wrote:
I'm away from homebase so can't check in depth right now but I think you
have downloaded the DOWNLOAD files instead of DOWNLOAD_x86_64 files.
chris,
I downloaded the SlackBuild (obs-studio.tar.gz) and Source Downloads (64bit):
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Christoph Willing wrote:
Looking more carefully at your first email which has your directory
contents, I see that the main tarball is missing. Check the info file
- you also need to wget
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Dimitris Zlatanidis wrote:
Happy Birthday Slackware!
Thank you, Patrick!
+1
Rich
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My desktop server/workstation (running -14.2 on an AMD Ryzen CPU) has
brave-browser-1.44.121-1 installed. It's stable, fast, and there are only a
very few sites it cannot fully access (but firefox can). When I download a
SBo package I can get both the build script .tar.gz and the source .rpm one
On Wed, 24 May 2023, phala...@komputermatrix.com wrote:
Hi Rich, I maintain the SBo build of Brave and I can't understand what
you're describing.
The version on SBo is 1.51.118 which is (today) the current stable
release. The download links are ok, and once installed, the "about" window
shows
On Tue, 23 May 2023, Arnaud wrote:
Texlive was a SlackBuild on 14.2, maybe you could start from this build
and upgrade it to 2023 ? Or you can also look at slackware's current
sources, get the SlackBuild here, it builds a 2023 package, could be that
it builds on a 15.0 box without further ado.
On Tue, 23 May 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
In the -curent texlive build tree there are three subdirectories. In the
texlive subdirectory is the file, texlive.SlackBuild.txt. Am I correct in
assuming that if I remove the terminal .txt and make the script executable
that's what I invoke to build
On Tue, 23 May 2023, Erich Ritz via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
Rich, building -current's texlive on 15.0 will fail:
Erich,
As I discovered.
I suggest you spend your efforts on finding why your document won't
compile using texlive 2021, rather than trying to get texlive 2023 working
on
TeXLive 2021 is the current version for both Slackware64-14.2 and -15.0. I
have a document that will not build (using pdflatex) on that version, but it
does build on TeXLive 2023. Why this one document won't build is unknown;
Herbert Voss found it built on the 2023 version so he cannot help.
I
On Tue, 23 May 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
Well, it won't build in 14.2:
Makefile:977: recipe for target 'bibtexu-bibtex-1.o' failed
make[4]: *** [bibtexu-bibtex-1.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/texlive-20230311-source/build/texk/bibtex-x'
Makefile:732: recipe for target 'all' failed
On Tue, 23 May 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'll grab the -current build and see if it will build on the 14.2
libraries. If not, I'll have to compile this .lyx document on the laptop.
In the -curent texlive build tree there are three subdirectories. In the
texlive subdirectory is the file
On Sat, 13 May 2023, Giancarlo Dessì wrote:
I reserve to take some more by the category gis or academic if remaining
orphaned
I've used grass since 1997 (building from source) and am trying to use qgis.
I could take those with help learning how to maintain packages. I just
downloaded all the
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
The qgis version in the SBo repo is far out of date; I just wrote to the
maintainer asking for help compiling the latest version (3.30.2) so it
includes grass gis. The SBo build script has a stanza to include grass as a
compiled-in option, and my script
The qgis version in the SBo repo is far out of date; I just wrote to the
maintainer asking for help compiling the latest version (3.30.2) so it
includes grass gis. The SBo build script has a stanza to include grass as a
compiled-in option, and my script modification didn't work (but I
sucessfully
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, Greg Tourte wrote:
I have been looking at the gdal slackbuild for version 3.8. I have held off
for now as it had an issue with building when an older version was
installed. Since I reported the issue upstream and a patch has since then
been written, I can now work on it.
I'm setting up 15.0 on a desktop and need to run rsync_slackware_patches.sh.
Last December there was a kernel upgrade. It's been a very long time since I
last upgraded a kernel and I remember that it should be done manually rather
than allowing the patches upgrade script do it.
What I have
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, j+sbo-us...@maschinengott.de wrote:
Rich, this question has nothing to do with SlackBuilds.org. Please seek help
elsewhere. (e.g. https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/)
Well, while not SBo-specific I thought someone here had the answer.
Bye,
Rich
Setting up my laptop with a fully patched 15.0 and multilib. I've used the
urxvt terminal emulated in previous versions and the SBo repo says that rxvt
has been replaced in 15.0 with rxvt-unicode.
I find the file rxvt-unicode in /usr/share/terminfo/r/ but it's not
executable. How do I tell xfce4
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024, marav wrote:
The executable is located here : /usr/bin/urxvt
Marav,
I learned that urxvt was not installed by the 15.0 installer while other xap
applications were. So I cd'd to the file tree and installed it. It's now up
and running.
Thanks very much,
Rich
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024, B. Watson wrote:
Again, wrong list for this question. Absolutely nothing to do with SBo.
It's not even a Slackware-specific question.
B,
I found the information on the SBo repo.
Most likely, if you just do a google or duckduckgo search for something
like "set default
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