Announcing Slackware Linux 11!
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
I cant get gnumeric working
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
Me too
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....
Doh! Nevermind...
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....
Yes, I have KDE installed
Yes, I have KDE installed. I installed everything on the first two CDs.
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I got Gnumeric working in Slackware 11.0
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 raninstallpkg
on all but that one:There was one library that took me a while to find:
libgsf-gnome-1.so.1
. It was inlibgsf-1.9.1-i486-1.tgz
in the "l
" directory. I did NOT runinstallpkg
on it, since that would have overwritten/usr/lib/libgsf-1.so
. Instead, I usedtar
to extractlibgsf-gnome-1.la
andlibgsf-gnome-1.so.1.9.1
from the tgz file, put them in/usr/lib
, createdlibgsf-gnome-1.so.1
as a soft link tolibgsf-gnome-1.so.1.9.1
and createdlibgsf-1.so.1
as a soft-link to the existinglibgsf-1.so.*
library (in Slackware 11.0, this islibgsf-1.so.114.0.1
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