mario wrote:
> /dev/rob0 wrote:
>
>> But you should definitely see The Book:
>> http://www.slackware.com/book/
>
>
> done.
>
>>> I'm reading furiously, got no printer, (i live in the boondocks in
>>> central america), so i write everything down.
>
>
>> Ooooh, nice! Is it warm there? Can I come visit?
>
>
> Sorry, no limeys, only rastas and pakis. it's hot and humid, i wish i
> were in London.
>
>> If you have the space to do a full install, I highly recommend that.
>
>
> hmm, all i got is a 5gig hdd on a PII 266, i can't see installing gnome
> AND kde at the same time (maybe icewm, flux or xfce4), although
> supposedly, it's only 2gigs of software. I was thinking on using the
> 'newbie' mode of installation in which the essential packages are
> already selected and you can read the description of whatever else you
> are installing, at least the first time around, no matter how verbose it
> is, i'm in no rush, everything is slow down here anyways.
Newbie here I have 9.0 with 5 simpie managers and KDE and Dropline Gnome
Full install on only 2.7gig DKE is close to full install. and I had to
add some 6 packages to install dropline. 5 gig are plenty.
>
>> Then you'll want to browse through the extra/ directory on the second
>> CD, which contains swaret and others which are not installed in the
>> full install.
>
>
> ok, so you select swaret and checkinstall if you want them, and keep on
> installing?
>
>>> 2. SWARET: deals with dependencies. (white man's tool, civilized)
>
>
>> You might find Debian more to your liking.
>
>
> i'm writing from Sid, just wanna learn something different.
>
>> Slackful people tend to not
>> place much trust in dependency checking. I've used swaret a little, and
>> I do not wish to impugn the reputation of swaret, but I did not enable
>> its dependency checking.
>>
>> GAFC hint: all dependency issues can be found in README and INSTALL
>> files, which in general you should read anyway.
>
>
> GAFC???
>
>>> QUESTION: Should i just deal with swaret for the moment? As a newbie,
>>> can i get away with this?
>
>
>> I don't know. What do you expect you will want to install? Most things
>> you will want, if not included with Slackware, will not come in the form
>> of binary packages. (Some can be found on linuxpackages.net, however.)
>> When I install something I generally do it from source code. There are
>> two packages in extra/, checkinstall and slacktrack, which put your
>> locally-compiled packages in the pkgtool database, for easy removal,
>> upgrading, or portability to other systems.
>
>
> ok, i'm writing this down. good stuff!
>
>> Good luck, have fun, and please be sure not to drink all the licka
>> (liquor)
>
>
> yah, mon! no rum and no ganja!
>
>> down in Costa Ricka (Rica). Whilst it ain't nobody's business
>> but your own, it would be likely to interfere with your Slack install.
>
>
> you mean, i might not remember what i did, the next day?
>
> thanks mate, you've been a lot of help.
>
> mario
>