How to get packages from the /extra directory of the live DVD
I know I'm gonna get whacked for asking, but how do I get stuff off of the /extra directory on the install disc? I've been searching Google all night, and keep coming up empty. Best I've come across is to mount the dvd, but I can't get that to happen. I can see the files on the disc, just can't get bash to connect with them.
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You can either use slackpkg (if you have configured it to use the DVD) or you can use the installpkg command for that. Just cd to a folder which contains a package and do installpkg packagename
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I'm trying to get Google Chrome working. I followed this guide;
http://slackwiki.org/index.php?title...wser&oldid=523 and it installed the Chromium icon in the Network Menu (I'm using XFCE, Slackware 13.37). Chrome doesn't open, and I've read that it needs pam libraries, and that /extra has better sources than those shown in the guide(?). "slackpkg google-chrome" didn't work, and installpkg wouldn't work either. You said that I needed to configure slackpkg to use the dvd. I'm not finding anything anywhere that shows me how to do that. |
When using the Slackware pkgtool utilities, you need to specify the package extension.
After placing DVD in the drive, try, as root, Code:
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/tmp |
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slackpkg install PACKAGE |
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After you uncomment a mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors You need to install GConf, ORBit2, google-chrome-pam-solibs. Code:
slackpkg update (refreshes the list of packages, updates ...) You have to build your own google-chrome package. Grab the google-chrome.SlackBuild Code:
wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-13.37/extra/google-chrome/google-chrome.SlackBuild Stable release http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct...rrent_i386.deb http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct...rent_amd64.deb Beta release http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct...rrent_i386.deb http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct...rent_amd64.deb Dev release http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct...rrent_i386.deb http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct...rent_amd64.deb The google-chrome.SlackBuild and google-chrome-$VERSION.deb should be in the same directory, then as root - Code:
RELEASE=beta sh google-chrome.SlackBuild I thought One Buck has this in the wiki. Look for any of his posts, and follow the links in his sig. |
I ran allend's code and it worked. But bash says that everything is installed already, so whatever the guide shows must be good info. I just can't get chromium to run, either from the start menu or the command line. The things I've tried to get it working from the terminal are guesses, like 'chromium', 'google-chrome,' etc. All=Command not found.
I'll try a few of the other suggestions in a bit, but I wonder if I actually have it installed and am just missing or needing something to verify that it does or doesn't work. I never get anything saying that something is wrong or anything is missing, I just don't get anything, period, to know if it's there or not. |
disturbed1's advice was spot-on! I'm posting this from Google Chrome. Who'da thunk that a .deb file was what I needed.
Google wouldn't let me run as root, I had to reboot to get back into my user session. I kept doing "su" then trying to change back to my user id, but whenever I would open another terminal, it was as root. Once I rebooted and switched useres that way, Chrome went to town. Thanks everybody. |
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