The Perfect Desktop - Slackware 12 - Page 10

20 Installing From Source:

Installing from source code is easy. Usually the following steps are all you need to do:

./configure

make

su -c "make install"

Download Filelight from http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/.

Notice that this is a Bzipped file unlike all the other downloads in this tutorial that are Gzipped. This means that we'll be extracting the file using tar xjvf instead of tar xzvf.

Click the Source tarball to download:

Save the file:

I made a directory named filelight and saved it there:

In the terminal window type,

cd /home/brian/Desktop/downloads/filelight

Then extract the contents by typing,

tar xjvf filelight-1.0.tar.bz2

After you unpack the file a directory is created named filelight-1.0.

Change your directory to filelight-1.0 by typing,

cd filelight-1.0

Type,

./configure

Then run make, 

make

Finally run,

su -c "make install"

Or, if you are already logged in as root just type,

make install

Once installation is finished run the program by clicking, K Menu->Utilities->Filelight:

 

21 Inventory (VIII)

We now have all wanted applications installed.

Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] Google Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Java Runtime Environment
[x] Flash
[x] RealPlayer
[x] aKregator
[x] Pidgin
[x] Xchat IRC
[x] gFTP
[x] BitTorrent
[x] Guarddog
[x] Google Earth
[x] Skype

Office:
[x] OpenOffice.org
[x] Adobe Acrobat reader
[x] Kontact
[x] Scribus
[x] kmymoney2

Sound & Video:
[x] Audacious
[x] K3B
[x] Noatun
[x] VLC Media Player

Programming:
[x] Quanta Plus
[x] Kate
[x] The Java 2 SDK

System Utilities:
[x] htop
[x] iptraf
[x] netstat
[x] Filelight
[x] KDE Info Center
[x] Konqueror

Other:
[x] VMware Server
[x] NTFS-3G driver
[x] FUSE

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I am very new to Slackware, I found this How To interesting, but I guess it will be even better if 2 issues are addressed.

First, Slackware is often installed by the installer with generic huge kernel and on startup udev issues error messages when it tries to load things that already are in the kernel. A desktop with error messages is imperfect, right?

Second, it is sometimes desireable to uninstall or reinstall software. Whenever the installation gets to a tgz package, it should be emphasized that it is a good idea to store the package. When there is no tgz, it is interesting if it is possible to create one.

I would also add something linked to the kernel, like nVidia driver, and something not trivial to ?onvert to tgz, like ruby (it compiles the --prefix into executales).