00:00hello everyone please if you don't mind subscribe like share and comment and why not become a
00:05member i was asked to do multiple things on slackware and one of them was setting up gnome
00:14which is what i'm gonna try to do here there are multiple ways to do it
00:20one of them includes compiling from source which
00:24has the instructions on this github page i don't think i will go with this method since
00:33it takes so long and one of the packages that will be compiled from source is webkit-gtk
00:39which takes so long even if you if i try to install it from a binary package a pre-compiled
00:46one
00:46it still fails the second method is this one it uh consists of pulling the packages from a link
00:58which is in this website and then installing manually all those packages i tried to do it
01:08with that link however i never got gnome in the xwm config menu i even tried
01:20with the method that i'm gonna go with and copied this link but i still can't get i mean this
01:31link for
01:32gnome for slackware in this left panel of this page and even this link over here and i keep failing
01:41with it
01:43i never got gnome in xwm config menu which means it's not installed correctly
01:55there is this this video from this user which sounds like the only possible way to install gnome successfully
02:03on slackware which i'm gonna follow in most of this video shout out to him
02:11we need to install sl package first we need to have dependencies in case you decided to
02:25install sl package or sl pkg on slackware 15 you if you want to follow the same method of looking
02:34for
02:35the dependencies follow me go to pkgs.s and you look for the package here for instance python dash poetry
02:44dash core
02:45you scroll down you copy this link and then as root of course here
02:54you download it like this
03:01and then the other dependency whether all these ones
03:05or only these ones you take a part of its name not necessarily the full name and you look for
03:13it
03:21you go whether to slackware 15 in case it's your branch or slackware current like me and you copy the
03:31link like this
03:35and paste it in your terminal and download it like this
03:44no it's wrong
03:51ls yes rm this one we don't need it
04:05yes so we need to have either two dependencies like this or more in case it is the official branch
04:12and then you run this command install pkg
04:17or let me also grab the pre-compiled package of sl pkg which is this one copy link wget paste
04:29it here
04:34and then if we see it with its dependencies we can see it with its dependencies we can see that
04:38they are all ready
04:39so we run install pkg
04:44asterisk dot txt
04:49it shall install pkg
04:51it shall install all of them for us
04:53let's clear out the screen
04:55and then we go to
04:57slash etc slash sl package
05:01slash repositories dot tmbl
05:05scroll down
05:11here we change the default one to make it gnome
05:22this one disable it that's what he did in the video for sbo
05:27then he enabled this one ponce or ponce
05:33true
05:37and he scrolled until he found
05:41gnome
05:42he enabled it
05:45and he changed this link which is somewhere here now it's probably
05:52no longer available something older than the ones that you see here
05:56he changed it to a link that he copied from this panel
06:04however when i compared that link
06:07when i copy from this panel and i compare it to the one that he copied from this panel
06:12they are no longer the same
06:14i took his link and looked for it
06:21and took me to this page
06:29in case you're using slackware 15 you click here
06:35and then you copy this link like this copy link like this
06:40in case you're using slackware current
06:43you click here
06:45you scroll down and you copy this link over here
06:49whether you wonder if it's possible to install this
06:53version on slackware 15
06:55i think it is but i don't think it's the best idea
06:59i don't think it's gonna bring the system anyway but
07:02i don't think it's a very good idea
07:03so i copy this link over here
07:07and replace this one with it
07:10paste here
07:13save and exit
07:16and then we run slpkg
07:20update
07:25then he run this command
07:30like this
07:30asterisk
07:33slpkg
07:35single quotation mark
07:37asterisk
07:38another another single quotation mark
07:40space dash org nom
07:42like this enter
07:47oh install here install like this enter
07:54here just press enter i tried to
07:58off cam to disable some of these packages
08:02eventually they got installed
08:05enter here
08:06we've got 459 packages to install here press y and enter here and it should download and install all of
08:14them for us
08:16the installation is finished
08:18the installation is finished we may now run the next commands
08:22pipe wire
08:25enable dot sh which is the native command on slackware
08:29like this and then slack pkg new config
08:36enter
08:38enter this is similar to etc update or dispatch conf on gen 2 here press uppercase o and enter
08:45then we reboot the system
08:48system is rebooted
08:49let's switch to root here
08:51this is by the way an ssh connection from which i was running all my commands as you saw
08:56and the system is a virtual machine that i'm seeing here
09:04so we run xwm config we choose here gnome
09:10go back here and start x
09:22go back here and start xwm config
09:24all right maybe exec gnome
09:33swm config
09:37click
09:38choose gnome over there clear the screen
09:42and start x
09:46i guess we need to install this libx
09:51cvt
09:52here it is
09:57copy this
10:01wget
10:03paste here
10:05enter
10:07clear
10:11ls
10:13install package
10:17lib
10:18tab helps with the auto completion as
10:21usual enter here
10:24okay
10:25let's try again here start x
10:29this
10:47clear
10:52yes we try to run it as root
10:55Alright, start x, yes, Lib, we have a bunch of packages that may need
11:24to be installed we need to track them the error messages weren't clear enough
11:30since the screen is not fully displayed but I think this is one of the packages
11:35that may need to be installed this one like this then same way we did
11:45before paste enter and then install package upstream go back here clear and
12:01then start X again GPG me and libduct tape so here libduct tape
12:24it's not there
12:31GPG me
12:57Install GPG and tab here, press it, enter.
13:02Try to start text again, clear as root, yes, the error of GPG.me is still there, libduct tape,
13:18I can't find it, maybe it's with a different name, duct tape.
13:32This one.
13:44And then...
14:06Yes.
14:20I guess for the plain user we may need to run a command that adds it to video, audio,
14:34let me run it as root in this terminal, user mod-a uppercase G, video, audio, input, and
14:48the username, in my case it's like this.
14:51And then we go to the configuration file, etc, x uppercase 11, x uppercase wrapper dot
15:00config, this one.
15:01And then this one we make it no.
15:14And this one we make it anybody.
15:22Like this.
15:26Save.
15:27And exit.
15:30And then etc, rc dot d, rc dot e login d, start.
15:44And debus.
15:49Debus.
15:56Debus.
15:58Let's try to start x again here.
16:06Yes.
16:08It keeps failing.
16:17Maybe because it's in a virtual machine.
16:29Anyway, I failed to set up Gnome on Slackware.
16:33I will still upload this video.
16:36Since it caused me to struggle a lot, it tortured me a lot, it was never easy.
16:41I attempted many times to install Gnome using all the possible methods.
16:47And they all failed all the time.
16:49Sometimes I cannot get Gnome in the entry of xwmconfig.
16:56Sometimes, as you saw.
16:59And the thing that caused me to be tortured more is when I use LFTP command.
17:04Takes forever to download, which caused me to get so pissed off.
17:09It's this one.
17:11However, I will still upload this video.
17:14Anyway, I'm signing out.
17:16If you got it working using this same method, please comment it down below.
17:20If you think that I made something wrongly, I made a mistake anywhere.
17:27Please tell me in the comments down below.
17:32I guess you have a reason at least to subscribe now, which is maybe seeing me doing my best
17:39to provide the best content.
17:42And peace.
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