Slackware update
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently.
Kernel
Before installing the kernel it’s nice to check the GPG signature of the downloaded packages. With the kernel GPG signature we can simply do:
When making oldconfig yes "" | oldconfig
saves time.
Slackpkg
I didn’t use this tool previously, but it can be used to update the official Slackware packages. Just remember to update the gpg signature as well.
I didn’t take the plunge to slackware-current just yet, I might do it at a later time when I feel I have a lot of unused time (will I ever?), but it’s easy to update selected packages.
Will only update git for example.
Perl
I did some strange things here, the one which worked was simply as root:
Slackbuilds with sbopkg
Slackbuilds works well but can be cumbersome. sbopkg is a great little tool which makes downloading and installing much easier.
Hakyll and xmonad
This gave me a lot of problems. At first I installed xmonad and xmonad-contrib from slackbuilds and I tried to install Hakyll from cabal, but conflicts ensued and they couldn’t really work together.
I tried to move cabal out from my home director, but didn’t find a very satisfactory solution and in the end I just gave up.
The first thing to do is to install ghc from slackbuilds. Then install the Cabal lib and cabal-install from https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases (they are in the same lib).
Then install a newer version of ghc from their prebuilt binaries at https://www.haskell.org/ghc.
There I got the error that libtinfo.so.5
couldn’t be found. This was solved by symlinking to libncurses with ln -s /lib64/libncurses.so.5 /lib64/libtinfo.so.5
.
Then we can install things with cabal as a regular user:
If you get the error:
pandoc-1.15.0.6 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
user error ('/usr/bin/ghc' exited with an error:
/usr/lib64/ghc-7.8.4/unix-2.7.0.1/libHSunix-2.7.0.1.a(execvpe.o): In function
`pPrPr_disableITimers':
execvpe.c:(.text+0x300): multiple definition of `pPrPr_disableITimers'
/root/.cabal/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.8.4/unix-2.7.1.0/libHSunix-2.7.1.0.a(ghcrts.o):(.text+0x0):
first defined here
Try rerunning cabal install cabal-install
and then try to install hakyll again. This shouldn’t happen with an updated ghc though.
From source
- fish shell
- neovim (xclip from slackbuilds)
- rust (nightly build)
- dzen2 (edit
config.mk
and use Xinerama, XPM and XFT)
If you get
rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver-7e44814b.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
it’s because rust installed it in /usr/local/lib
which is not in the default search path. Can add /usr/local/lib
to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or issue ldconfig /usr/local/lib
for instant gratification.
Perl6
This can be done with everything as regular user.
Add ~/.rakudobrew/bin
to path. Then we can install package manager panda and VM moar:
Then with panda we can install modules:
Postgres
Install from slackbuilds. Check readme! After installation, to allow for no password for postgres (useful for pure local) alter /var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data/pg_hba.conf
and add the line
local all postgres trust
before all other configurations.
Missing
This time I’m having trouble with getting sound working in Skype. To be continued… Maybe.