Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Upgrading PostgreSQL Using SlackBuild Script

2008-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Robby Workman wrote: That sounds reasonable to me, but then, I'm not a db admin, so ymmv. Ah, well. Something went belly up. After copying all /var/lib/pgsql/ to /usr4/pgsql_old/, I ran '/etc/rc.d/rc.posgresql stop' and was told that it did stop. Then I ran

[Slackbuilds-users] Problems with Scribus-1.3.3.12

2008-07-03 Thread Rich Shepard
I've been using Eric's script for Scribus for the past two years (since -1.3.3.2), and I used it for the latest, -1.3.3.12. However, there's apparently a bug introduced in this version that prevents the File - New from Template menu option from appearing. My message to the scribus user's

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with Scribus-1.3.3.12

2008-07-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Phillip Warner wrote: I can at least say that I don't see the bug in 1.3.3.11. Phil, I didn't, either. I have not upraded to 1.3.3.12, but as you can see newer is not always better. True. With office automation tools I try to use the latest release. cmake is a

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with Scribus-1.3.3.12

2008-07-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: Well, there is a cmake build script in the 11.0 section on SBo. Worked perfectly. Of course. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with Scribus-1.3.3.12 -- SOLVED

2008-07-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: I will happily run your script on 1.3.3.12 and provide feedback. Cool :) To complete this thread, two changes were needed to the script to make it work with 1.3.3.12. Building with cmake rather than configure fixed the missing menu item. My

[Slackbuilds-users] libgphoto2 Build Error

2008-07-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On my Slackware-11.0 system trying to build libgphoto2-2.4.1 using the downloaded script: libgphoto2-2.4.1/doc/api/gphoto2-sections.txt patching file packaging/generic/print-camera-list.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 235 (offset -98 lines). Hunk #2 FAILED at 348. 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] libgphoto2 Build Error

2008-07-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Robby Workman wrote: Rich, we don't apply any patches to the 2.4.1 build in our 12.1 repository, and and 2.4.1 is not in our 11.0 repository. Thank you, Robby. I guess it will have to wait until I make the time -- probably this coming weekend -- to upgrade the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with Graphviz

2008-10-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Audrius Kaukauskas wrote: Hmm, that's strange. I'm not sure where the problem could be. Audrius, It turns out to have been an obsolete and defective SlackBuild script. The latest one works just fine. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |

[Slackbuilds-users] Open Project Script?

2008-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm looking for a SlackBuild script for Open Project http://www.openproj.org/ but do not find one on the web site. Has anyone considered such a script? If not, I could try to make time to learn how to build such a script for this application. Rich -- Richard B.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Wrong link for Lyx 1.4.5.1

2008-12-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Kemal Ilgar Eroglu wrote: Yes but there is already a Lyx Qt4 slackbuild. Slack 12.1 doesn't have Qt4 so people like me have to use the 1.4.x series. I think this should be maintained until Qt4 makes it to Slack. Ilgar, Would you like me to share the qt4.SlackBuild

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Wrong link for Lyx 1.4.5.1

2008-12-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Michiel van Wessem wrote: Isn't that why `hba` (aka core), wrote: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/office/lyx_qt4/ Could be. granted, version is a bit behind. So the right course of action might be to email him and ask him to update as soon as we accept

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20081210

2008-12-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Robby Workman wrote: audio/xmms: Removed - this is included in Slackware 12.2. I thought this was removed in 12.0 in favor of audacity. Has it been put back in 12.2? Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20081210

2008-12-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Robby Workman wrote: It was removed in favor of audacious, but yeah, it's back in 12.2. Robby, Thanks for correcting the name. I knew it was one or the other. :-) I'm glad that it's back. It worked well for me on my main box and I know how to use it. I hope that

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20081210

2008-12-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote: I'm afraid it's too late Slackware 12.2 has been released :) Willy, That doesn't mean 7.4 isn't part of the release. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.

[Slackbuilds-users] Directory Structure Question

2008-12-12 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm reading the docs on how to write a SlackBuild script and I am puzzled by statements on the directory structure page. The implication is that the source for all contents of the distribution cdrom disks need to be installed on the hard drive in order to build a package for an application not

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] jpilot change versions: old source gone ...

2009-01-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, alkos333 wrote: Most of the time that's all you'll need to do. When the new versions come out, bump the version string and see if it compiles alright and if it doesn't compile, figure out what changes have been made to source (new dependencies, etc) and modify the script

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Build Issues On One of Two Machines

2009-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: The GUI for taskjuggler does only work with qt3. I have no clue actually why it isn't finding it, bot can give you some hints on what to try. You can try reinstalling the stock qt-3.3.8 package and see if it works then. If it does, most likely your

[Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm trying to apply the SlackBuild script for tinyerp-client, but it tells me that wxGTK is not present. It was, until I deleted it and just tried to re-install it. This is all on my newly refurbished -12.2 server/workstation. Unfortunately, it reminds me of the dependency hell I went through

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Chess Griffin wrote: I can confirm that the wxGTK SlackBuild works fine on a full install of Slackware 12.2 -- I just did it today. :-) That's encouraging, Chess. Is this a full clean install of Slackware 12.2? If not, what is not installed? And if it's an upgrade,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Robby Workman wrote: Based on the prior troubles you've had, I've noticed a common thread: all of them involved restoring stuff from a backup tape. This is going to come across a bit asshole-ish, and I'll go ahead and apologize in advance for that, but... I think you need

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Robby Workman wrote: Based on the prior troubles you've had, I've noticed a common thread: all of them involved restoring stuff from a backup tape. This is going to come across a bit asshole-ish, and I'll go ahead and apologize in advance for that, but... I think you need

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues -- Update

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Scott Harmon wrote: Did you restore /usr/local/{lib,bin}... ? Good question, Scott! I find a lot of broken links in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib that I'll fix right after dinner. I'll post results when I have some. Thanks again, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] [slackware] Package Build Issues -- Update

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Robby Workman wrote: None. /usr/local is for *local* system-specific software compiled by the system admin and typically *not* packaged. That's what I thought. And why I put applications there that are not part of the distribution. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues -- RESOLVED!!

2009-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Robby Workman wrote: I didn't take any offense to anything you said, but even if I had, there's no need to apologize to me - you're understandably under some stress because of all this, and so long as a person doesn't delve into personal attacks, I'll not get offended and/or

[Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenOffice.org-3.1.1

2009-09-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I used the SlackBuild script to build/upgrade OpenOffice.org-3.0.0. Today I tried to build the -3.1.1 release, but it fails: opt/openoffice.org3 opt/openoffice.org3/program opt/openoffice.org3/program/simpress 2 blocks opt/openoffice.org3 opt/openoffice.org3/program

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenOffice.org-3.1.1 -- FIXED

2009-09-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I used the SlackBuild script to build/upgrade OpenOffice.org-3.0.0. Today I tried to build the -3.1.1 release, but it fails: Fixed it by replacing the former SlackBuild script (-3.0.0) with the newer script. Rich

[Slackbuilds-users] QT4 SlackBuild Script Issues

2009-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
This is all on -12.2. I need to upgrade qt4-4.4.3 to -4.5.2 so I can build the sqliteman package. The SlackBuild web site has qt4-4.5.1 as the souce link, but that's not available on the TrollTech web site. Version 4.5.2 is available, but as a .gz file, not a .bz2 file. These changes are

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] QT4 SlackBuild Script Issues

2009-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Eric Hameleers (SBo) wrote: Why do you think that? Eric, Because that's the way it displays in 'joe.' As it turns out it works just fine. It's building now; I ran out of room on /tmp so I'm using a different partition that has 37G available space. Many thanks,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] QT4 SlackBuild Script Issue: KNOWN.ISSUES

2009-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: This is all on -12.2. New issue. After grinding away for 96 minutes the script fails with this: cp -f -r /usr4/SBo/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.2/mkspecs/wincewm60standard-msvc2008 /usr4/SBo/package-qt4/usr/lib/qt4/mkspecs/ cp: cannot stat

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] QT4 SlackBuild Script Issue: KNOWN.ISSUES

2009-09-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Larry Hajali wrote: Delete it from the slackbuild. Larry, That was so simple and obvious it didn't occur to me. Thank you for pointing it out. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

[Slackbuilds-users] Build Errors: graphviz-2.24.0

2009-12-04 Thread Rich Shepard
I used the slackbuild script on graphviz-2.20.3, but I'm getting build errors on -2.24.0. This happens with both the previous script and the latest one. I'm running -12.2 here. This is what I see: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../lib/gvc -I../../lib/common -I../../lib/graph

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Build Errors: graphviz-2.24.0

2009-12-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Audrius Ka?ukauskas wrote: Looks like there's a problem with R bindings for graphviz. Version incompatibility between graphviz and R (or even SWIG, which is used to generate bindings code)? If you don't need R bindings, you could try adding --enable-r=no to the build

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Build Errors: graphviz-2.24.0

2010-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Audrius Ka?ukauskas wrote: Looks like SWIG is really the culprit here. You could try to upgrade it (Slackware-13.0 has 1.3.38, so maybe that's a good version to choose), or if you don't need any bindings at all, adding --enable-swig=no should disable them completely.

[Slackbuilds-users] Problems Building PostgreSQL-8.4.5

2010-10-22 Thread Rich Shepard
This is on a new system (mb, memory, cpu) with fresh install of 13.1. I'm using the SlackBuild script for postgres-8.4.5 so I can upgrade from the current -8.3.3. The configure step fails: checking libxml/parser.h usability... no checking libxml/parser.h presence... no checking for

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems Building PostgreSQL-8.4.5

2010-10-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: This is on a new system (mb, memory, cpu) with fresh install of 13.1. Sorry. It's 13.0 not 13.1. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems Building PostgreSQL-8.4.5

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Adis Nezirovic wrote: In any case, if you need any help please drop me an email, I would be glad to help you. Adis, I am curious why the SlackBuilds packages install into /var/lib/ instead of /usr/local/ as the non-SlackBuild packages do. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems Building PostgreSQL-8.4.5

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Robby Workman wrote: That's because /usr/local is the domain of the system administrator. Robby, I thought that /usr was, too, and that non-distribution-included packages would be installed in /usr/local or /opt. Thanks, Rich

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems Building PostgreSQL-8.4.5

2010-10-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Didier Spaier wrote: This hierarchy holds state information pertaining to an application or the system. State information is data that programs modify while they run, and that pertains to one specific host. Users must never need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a

[Slackbuilds-users] New R Version Released

2010-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
The version of R is out of date; R-2.12.0 has been released. I tried to send a mail message directly to Joel, but the gmail address in the R description bounced. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] [ANNOUNCE]: Slackware 13.37 rc1 and SBo

2011-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Robby Workman wrote: Okay, everybody saw the 13.37 rc1 announcement, First I've seen of it. Just curious why the version is 13.37 rather than 13.2. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] [ANNOUNCE]: Slackware 13.37 rc1 and SBo

2011-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Robby Workman wrote: Why would it be 13.2 rather than 13.37? :-) Because 2 comes before 37 when counting? Because previous minor version numbers have been 1 and 2? If there's no particular reason that's fine with me. At least we don't have silly version names like the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, David Spencer wrote: (1) I see from git that R is being removed (unmaintained). So, for future versions of R I build from source without a SlackBuild script? Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Ivan Pavicevic wrote: As biochemist, I often use R on Slackware64, it is the most powerful data analysis framework. And of course, always built from src with SlackBuild script. I hope that SlackBuilds.org will continue to support R. I'm an aquatic ecologist/fluvial

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Pierre Cazenave wrote: Since the script for R already exists, it's probably just a case of bumping version numbers when a new release comes out and making sure it still compiles. Piere, Doesn't this also require another system on which the release candidate version can

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, David Spencer wrote: You could be the new maintainer :D What's required? It was offered on the list last year but nobody volunteered :O I wasn't regularly following the list. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Pierre Cazenave wrote: Generally you are only expected to maintain your scripts for the current stable release of Slackware. At the moment, scripts at SlackBuilds.org are only officially supported on 13.1. When 13.37 is released, everyone will have to make sure their

[Slackbuilds-users] Postfix

2011-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
I see on the web site that postfix-2.6.1 is shown as the version; that's well behind the current version. I just successfully upgraded the package from -2.7.1 to -2.8.2 on -13.1. The only minor cleanup that could be done is during installation: Executing install script for

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Greg' Ar Tourter wrote: is R being picked up by anyone? otherwise I'll do it. it would be a shame to have that one unmaintained here. Greg, Ivan and I are newcomers to package maintenance but agreed to stumble along together in maintaining R. Ivan's a chemist using R

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] BIOS Firmware Upgrade Kit

2011-04-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Ivan Pavicevic wrote: Totally agree with you Rich, it could be very risky. I think that it is a good idea to contact firmware developers and get the answer from the first hand. Ivan, I sent a message and will wait for a reply. My inclination is to either build from

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] BIOS Firmware Upgrade Kit

2011-04-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, JK Wood wrote: In any case, the Dell bios update tool, libsmbios, already exists on Slackbuilds.org, and works well. JK, Hoo-ha! Thank you very much. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] BIOS Firmware Upgrade Kit

2011-04-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, JK Wood wrote: In any case, the Dell bios update tool, libsmbios, already exists on Slackbuilds.org, and works well. JK, I'll look more closely at this and contact Alan. The blurb on slackbuilds.org says it provides info on the BIOS, not that it will upgrade it. But, it

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-04-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Grissiom wrote: FYI, when I try to build R-2.13.0 with the old SlackBuild. I found some bugs: 1, --with-perl option is no longer needed. 2, the old SlackBuild didn't set the CXXFLAGS, FCFLAGS, FFLAGS and OBJCFLAGS. I doubt whether R actually use obj-c but configure

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] [13.37] Slackbuild patch for r2e 2.71

2011-05-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Dario Niedermann wrote: One of the files in the source archive changed name, so that had to be fixed. Dario, That's because I contacted the developer and made him aware that his new configuration files overwrote the existing, tuned, configurations. That caused rss2email

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] cardinal.lizella.net - help needed :/

2011-05-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Robby Workman wrote: Heh, oops. That last line didn't belong at all :-) It's Friday ... and the server failed. Distractions abound. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

[Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Find R-project

2011-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm setting up my 13.37/64-bit portable for an upcoming trip and rebuilding all SlackBuild packages. I cannot find R any longer; it was there not long ago because I upgraded R on my 13.1 server/workstation from SBo. When I enter R in the search box I get everything in the repository with a R

[Slackbuilds-users] SWIG? OpenOffice.org?

2011-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
There seems to be a few packages I use that no longer have build scripts in the repository. I built SWIG manually, and suppose I could run the OO.o rpm through rpm2tgz and see if I can install it after that. Are these pending (or removed) scripts going to be made available some time soon?

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] SWIG? OpenOffice.org?

2011-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Erik Hanson wrote: I wouldn't expect to see OOo back.. http://slackbuilds.org/gitweb/?p=slackbuilds.git;a=commit;h=e67ceae OK. Swig is included with Slackware since at least 13.0, in d/. I did not notice that before. I'll clean up the system. Thanks, Eric, Rich

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] SWIG? OpenOffice.org?

2011-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Jostein Berntsen wrote: Libreoffice packages 3.3.2 are available through SlackBuild: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/office/libreoffice/ Jostein, Thank you. For some strange reason I could not initiate the download to the /opt/slackbuilds/libreoffice/

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] SWIG? OpenOffice.org?

2011-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Bradley D. Thornton wrote: I don't think you're going to have any issues. AlienBob's package works well, although I'm not sure if his latest one includes the dicts or not. I don't think the early one did when LO was first making its break with OOo and EllisonCo. Bradley,

[Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
Using the new SlackBuild script and a fresh copy of GoogleEarth...bin for 13.37/x86_64 I'm running into a puzzling problem when trying to invoke the application. What I see on the virtual terminal is: /usr/bin/googleearth: line 18: /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin: no such file or directory

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, JK Wood wrote: Is /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin executable? JK, I should have mentioned that it is, with 755 permissions. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Audrius Ka?ukauskas wrote: Are you trying to run it on Slackware64? From GoogleEarth SlackBuild README: 3) GoogleEarth is a 32bit application only. You need to have the 32bit compatibility packages installed to have this work on a 64bit system. Otherwise you'll just see

[Slackbuilds-users] epdfview Build Problem

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
Working with a 64-bit system is new to me so I'm hitting issues that I expect will go away with experience. I installed AlienBob's multilibs and compat32 libraries this morning and I'm trying to get every application I might need on the machine before I leave on a business trip this Sunday.

[Slackbuilds-users] Graphviz Build Error

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
If I have missed something with the installation of the multilib and compat32 libraries, how should I re-do the process to fix the errors? Graphviz tells me it cannot find a library which is in /usr/lib64; it's looking in /usr/lib. Is this a build script error? libtool: link: warning:

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, David Spencer wrote: That's what happens if you haven't done what's in the SlackBuild's README, note 2: 2) Google Earth 6 is LSB compliant meaning it was built on a LSB system. Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part of the LSB 3.0 specification.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, King Beowulf wrote: After all why the heck not? Because it would limit the opportunities for folks to make fun of me. :-) Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Graphviz Build Error

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Slacker build user wrote: On the other hand, I have used Graphviz quite a bit for several years and do in fact find it very useful. I would encourage you to grit your teeth and get it running - it is worth some effort, and then you will know what you might have missed!

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Graphviz Build Error

2011-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, B Watson wrote: Well, no, I was saying to make sure /usr/lib/pkgconfig is *not* listed in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH (and make sure /usr/lib64/pkgconfig *is* in there). Darn! I changed PKG_CONFIG_PATH in both ~/.bash_profile and /root/.bash_profile, sourced the latter, and

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Graphviz Build Error

2011-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Audrius Ka?ukauskas wrote: Have you tried what Greg suggested? He was successful at compiling graphviz on a multilib system. Yes, I have. /etc/profile.d/32dev.sh is not executable. All references to 'lib' are now 'lib64' in the package and library paths. The three

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Graphviz Build Error

2011-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: The three applications that won't build or run properly are graphviz (low priority as I've not used it before), acroread (builds but does not properly display menu fonts), and epdfview (which won't build). The latter two are rather critical and I need

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Graphviz Build Error -- [ALL FIXED]

2011-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Greg' Ar Tourter wrote: I wouldn't worry too much about xulrunner. Greg, Then I won't, either. Stopped the download and removed the directory. as for the name change, adobe renamed it adobe-reader so it was decided to follow upstream in the naming convention. I

[Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I tried building LibreOffice but not all the typefaces on the system are seen. After futzing with this for a day I removed the package (3.3.2) and tried building 3.4.1 (since messages on this list told me that 3.4.0 should be avoided. The attempt fails because a freedesktop package cannot be

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Jens Weber wrote: Maybe you consider using sbopkg from http://sbopkg.org/ as it will dowload the right source version for you Jens, I installed sbopkg. It seeks libreoffice-3.3.2 which is no longer in the repository (or available at libreoffice.org). Recommendations

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Greg' Ar Tourter wrote: The old versions of libreoffice are still available but not at their original location: You can find them in http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/stable/ Hope this helps ArTourter, Unfortunately, not. The 3.3.2 file name on

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Josiah Boothby wrote: Maybe Eric Hameleers's package would work as well for you as it does for me? http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/pkg/13.37/ Josiah, Until I get the new hard drive and install 13.37/64-bit on it, then transfer all the 32-bit

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Josiah Boothby wrote: Maybe Eric Hameleers's package would work as well for you as it does for me? Josiah, I'm now downloading his 13.1 libreoffice package. Thanks for the suggestion. Stay tuned for a report on the results. Rich

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: Stay tuned for a report on the results. Eric's package of 3.3.3 installs and runs. I still have only a fraction of the typefaces/fonts available in /usr/share/fonts (e.g., URW Paladio Italic is there, but not the Roman face). I'll get on the LO mail

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Problems with OO.o and LO

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Donald Cooley wrote: I built 3.3.3 last night. I could copy and paste the changes I made to the slackbuild and the info file if you like. email directly if interested. Donald, Thanks for the offer. I have Eric's 3.3.3 installed and running; same problem with not all

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Mailing list maintenance / move

2011-07-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Robby Workman wrote: The SlackBuilds and ArmedSlack mailing lists will likely be unreachable for a (hopefully) short period of time within the next 24-48 hours; I'll be moving them over to a new (more stable) host. Robby, Is this the result of our contributions? Rich

[Slackbuilds-users] Error Building postgis-1.4.0 on -13.1/32-bit

2011-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
Probably user error in the configuration (I went with the default), but this is what I see when I try to build postgis-1.4.0: gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fpic -I/usr/include -I../liblwgeom -I.

[Slackbuilds-users] Why Might a SBo Application Look in /usr/local?

2011-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I've been running R-2.13.0 and decided to upgrade to -2.13.1. I downloaded the new scripts and source, built and upgraded the package. When I try to invoke it I see: [rshepard@salmo ~]$ R -bash: /usr/local/bin/R: No such file or directory I've no idea where to look to see where the shell is

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Why Might a SBo Application Look in /usr/local?

2011-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Donald Allen wrote: To try to help you, I'd be interested in knowing the architecture and version of the Slackware system you are running and seeing the result of ls -l /var/adm/packages/R* Don, (Slackware-13.1/32-bit) [rshepard@salmo ~]$ ll /var/log/packages/R*

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Why Might a SBo Application Look in /usr/local?

2011-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Donald Allen wrote: cat /var/adm/packages/R-2.13.1* Here's the tail, after everything in /usr/lib: usr/doc/ usr/doc/R-2.13.1/ usr/doc/R-2.13.1/README usr/doc/R-2.13.1/R.SlackBuild usr/doc/R-2.13.1/OLDER_NEWS.tgz usr/bin/ usr/bin/R usr/bin/Rscript usr/man/ usr/man/man1/

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Why Might a SBo Application Look in /usr/local? [SOLVED]

2011-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: I've no idea where to look to see where the shell is getting the wrong location. I've been using the SlackBuild packages for several versions now and haven't before come across this issue. Well, I came up with the right idea and looked

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Upgraded LibreOffice-3.4.3 Has No Executable

2011-09-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Niels Horn wrote: The SBo package (which you have installed now) creates symlinks in usr/bin /for each individual program, for example: usr/bin/scalc points to //opt/libreoffice3.4/program/scalc Niels, Aha! I was not aware of this. And this solves an issue I had with

[Slackbuilds-users] monit version upgrade

2011-09-06 Thread Rich Shepard
The utility, monit, is now at version 5.2.5 but the SBo page shows (and downloads) 5.0. FYI, Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives -

[Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenCASCADE

2011-09-24 Thread Rich Shepard
I'd like to use FreeCAD for 2D designs but I cannot build OpenCASCADE (Slackware-13.1/32-bit running on an AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor (dual-core) with 4G RAM. Because the build requires ~2.5G disk space and /tmp has only ~2.6G free I changed the .SlackBuild to point to ~/workspace which has

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenCASCADE

2011-09-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Ottavio wrote: Have you tried mounting tmpfs on /tmp ? If 4 G is not enough, it will use swap (see also my post on slackware uk lug mailing list about this). Ottavio, No, I haven't. According to 'df -h' tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /dev/shm I don't

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenCASCADE

2011-09-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Ottavio wrote: But if you have 4G of ram you still have (4 - 1.7) G of ram available + swap. If you mount tmpfs on /tmp, /tmp will be located in ram + swap. Then you can change the .SlackBuild to point to /tmp. I have 8G swap space. Does it matter where .SlackBuild

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenCASCADE

2011-09-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Aleksandar Samardzic wrote: It could be that ACPI automatically shut your machine down, due to too high CPU temperature. You may wist to try to clean, or replace, your CPU fan, as well as to vacuum your machine air inlets. Also, you may try with setting your CPU freq,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Cannot Build OpenCASCADE

2011-09-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Niels Horn wrote: If' you don't mind cheating, you can get pre-built packages from my site: http://www.nielshorn.net/slackware/slack_pkg.php Niels, Thank you. I don't see using pre-built packages as cheating. After all, the goal is to have running applications. If I

[Slackbuilds-users] psycopg Upgraded

2011-10-14 Thread Rich Shepard
For information: psycopg version 2.4.2 was recently released. It builds with only the version number changed in the SlackBuild file and upgraded the installed 2.2.2 with no problems. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] R failes to download

2012-01-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, emmel wrote: Tried to build R and got: http://cran.opensourceresources.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.0.tar.gz Resolving cran.opensourceresources.org (cran.opensourceresources.org)... 65.111.171.158 Connecting to cran.opensourceresources.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] R failes to download

2012-01-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, emmel wrote: So the .info lists a not working download link? Isn't that in violation of the slackbuild guidelines? And should that not be mentioned in the REDAME at least? I've no idea. As I wrote, I make it a practice to download the source tarball from the

[Slackbuilds-users] Recommended Change to postfix.SlackBuild

2012-02-08 Thread Rich Shepard
I recommend a change to postfix.SlackBuild to include cyrus SASL as well as dovecot SASL. The latter works only with smtpd while the former is required for smtp and needed by anyone who has to relay outgoing mail through an ISP's mail servers. After 15 years with a static IP address the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Recommended Change to postfix.SlackBuild

2012-02-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Mario wrote: I fail to see the point of all this, if you need cyrus it should be enough to just do, without any modifications: SASL=cyrus ./postfix.SlackBuild Mario, I did not know of this syntax. I found a linuxquestions.org thread that pointed me to adding CCARGS for

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Tuxguitar x86_64 problem

2012-03-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Luis Henrique F. Cardoso de Mello wrote: When I start tuxguitar from the 64-bit package, this error window pop-up. It doesn't happen on 32-bit. Do you have the 32-bit compatible libraries installed? Rich ___

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Tuxguitar x86_64 problem

2012-03-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Luis Henrique F. Cardoso de Mello wrote: No, how do I install them? Luis, Complete, step-by-step instructions here: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:multilib Regards, Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Tuxguitar x86_64 problem

2012-03-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Luis Henrique F. Cardoso de Mello wrote: I have another issue with OpenShot... upon initialization a window pop-up saying that the program couldn't find frei0r libraries... does it also have to do with multilib libraries not installed? Luis, I have no idea because I

[Slackbuilds-users] Issue With Latest pflogsumm

2012-03-30 Thread Rich Shepard
The package update list mailed Wednesday included an updated pflogsumm, and the page on the SBo Web site recommended it for those of us running postfix-2,9.x. I have a problem with it and would like your assistance in resolving the issue. I've used the same pflogsumm (non-SBo) for years, and

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