💻 Slackware

Slackware as a virtualized system and beyond

I believe these notes are for Slackware Current (it was before 2022)

• Lilo & Virtio

  • Exit installer > Don’t reboot..

  • cfdisk /dev/vda

    Set bootable > write > exit

  • chroot /mnt

  • ls /boot

    $KERNEL version here

  • /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh

    Might help..

  • mkinitrd -c -k 4.4.14 -f ext4 -m ext4:virtio:virtio_balloon:virtio_blk:virtio_pci:virtio_ring

  • ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-generic-4.4.14 /boot/vmlinuz

    • or

    • ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-huge-4.4.14 /boot/vmlinuz

  • vim /etc/lilo.conf

    boot=/dev/vda
    disk=/dev/vda bio=0x80 max-partitions=7
    #scrolldown# after # Linux bootable
    image = /boot/vmlinuz2
    initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
    root = /dev/vda1
    label = Linux2
    read-only
    

  • exit

    Leave chroot

  • lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

• pkgtool > remove packages > lilo

• dhcpcd

• chroot /mnt

• vi /etc/resolv.conf

  ++ nameserver 8.8.8.8
  

• grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdX

• grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

  Upgrades too

• useradd -m -G wheel,video,audio -s user

• sudov /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

  ++ kernel-generic
  ++ kernel-generic-smp
  ++ kernel-huge
  ++ kernel-huge-smp
  ++ kernel-modules
  ++ kernel-modules-smp
  

• sudov /etc/slackpkg/mirrors

  • Uncomment: http://slackbuilds.org…

    02-02-2023: I can’t remember why I wrote this…

• slackpkg update

• slackpkg upgrade slackpkg

• slackpkg new-config

• slackpkg upgrade glibc-solibs

  After new releases

• slackpkg install-new

• slackpkg upgrade-all

• slackpkg clean-system

• /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -k newkernel

  ls /boot to grep newkernel name

• Virtual machine: QXL 16M

• echo "source ~/.bashrc" >> ~/.bash_profile

• vim ~/.bashrc

  shopt -s histappend
  HISTSIZE=20000
  HISTFILESIZE=20000
  shopt -s checkwinsize
  export PS1='\n\u@\h - [\w]\n$ '
  alias qq='exit'
  alias cls='clear'
  alias ll='ls -la'
  alias ra='ranger'
  alias sudoc='sudo chmod +x'
  alias sudor='sudo ranger'
  alias sudov='sudo vim'
  

• xdg-user-dirs-update

  Generate desktop /home/user/.. folder stuff

• xorgsetup

• xwmconfig

  Not a DM config but still..

• sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf

  ++ nameserver 8.8.8.8
  

• Slackbuilds.org package browser

  • Download Sbopkg Slackbuild

• wget sbopkg-x.xx.x-noarch_1_wzr.tgz

• installpkg sbopkg-x.xx.x-noarch_1_wzr.tgz

• sbopkg -r package

  Sync repos

• sbopkg -s package

  Search by package

• sbopkg -b package

  List details of package

• sbopkg -i package

  Install package

• sbopkg remove package

  Remove package

• sbopkg -u

  Update sbopkg

• sbopkg -c

  List installed packages and show updates

• sbopkg -P

  List package cache and purge unneeded packages

• sbopkg -p

  List installed packages

• sbopkg -r

  Wait like 10min+

• sbopkg -s '(asterisk)[Ww]allpapers(asterisk)'

• sbopkg -i slack-wallpapers

• echo "export TMP="$HOME/.sources/SBo"" >> $HOME/.bashrc

• cd $HOME/.sources/slackbuilds

• wget www.slackbuilds....tar.gz

  Slackbuild search linked Below

• tar -xzf slackbuild.tar.gz

• cd packagedir

• wget www.source.tar.gz

• sudoc package.SlackBuild

• ./package.Slackbuild

• cd ../SBo

• installpkg ...SBo.tgz

• removepkg ...SBo.tgz

• upgradepkg ...SBo.tgz

• sudo xorgsetup

• Change vesa to qxl

• Install xf86-video-qxl

  Slackbuild search linked Below

• sudo netconfig

  Networkmanager dependencies satisfied

• See XrandR to set display resolutions 1600x900 and beyond, etc.

• sudov /etc/inittab

  -- id:3:initdefault:
  ++ id:4:initdefault:
  

• sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Anchorage /etc/localtime

  02-02-2023: Instead of New York? I can’t remember why..

• sudov /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

• sudo /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

• sudo slackpkg remove ruby

• wget https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.7/ruby-2.7.0.tar.gz

  ruby-x.x.x.tar.gz

• tar -xzf ruby-2.7.0.tar.gz

  ruby-x.x.x.tar.gz

• cd ruby-2.7.0

  • ./configure

  • make

  • make install

• sudo ln -sf /usr/local/bin/gem /usr/bin/gem

Chain of dependencies to

• Requires:

  • bubblewrap ostree appstream-glib libseccomp xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

    • appstream-glib

      • gcab

        • vala

      • meson

        • python3

        • ninja

    • xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

      Linked above

      • xdg-desktop-portal

        Same package as xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

        • json-glib

        • pipewire

          • meson

            Linked above

• Add Flathub

  • flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• groupadd flatpak

• org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 fails…

  This happens even with Ubuntu or Arch Linux systems

  • flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform

• Ready for: flatpak install flathub xxx.oranization.[Pp]ackage

  Not a guarantee, but the potential to run the latest software is there

• Slackware Homepage

• Slackware Linux Essentials: Handbook

• Slackware Builds: Search

• PKG.org: Slackware Repositories