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How to install Gnome in Slackware 13.x

Written by Mel Kham on December 21, 2010. Posted in Linux tutorials

As you know, slackware use KDE as default desktop, for people that like to use Gnome instead of KDE, there are many projects that provide binary packages for an easy installation of GNOME in slackware, one of these projects is Gnome slackbuild Project.

“GNOME SlackBuild is unique in that it is designed to be a twofold project. Its aim is not only to provide users with binary packages for an easy installation of GNOME, but also a full GNOME Build System, with the goal of allowing individuals to customise and build their own GNOME packages for their Slackware system.”

For more Gnome projects for Slackware check :

http://www.droplinegnome.net/

http://www.gware.org/

Installation:

For Slackware 13.1 for x86

lynx --source http://gnomeslackbuild.org/net-install | bash

For Slackware64 13.1 for x86_64

lynx --source http://gnomeslackbuild.org/net-install/64 | bash

Wait about 20 min until the installtion is finished.

Now always in the terminal, type gdm to start gnome manager and login

{module user9-footer}

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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5 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

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I keep using Slackware 13.0. how to install gnome on it?
- http://www.unixmen.com pirat9
  
  First as root, open /etc/slackpkg/mirrors. Uncomment one mirror if you haven’t already. Change the directory it is supposed to look in from slackware-13.0 to slackware-13.1.
  
  Save it. At the command line type:
  
  slackpkg update
  slackpkg install-new
  slackpkg upgrade all
  
  enjOOOOOOOy
  
  Regards
  Pirat9
http://www.droplinegnome.org Sasa Ostrouska

Hello, thanks for listing dropline. We have some problems with the current theme of the web page, but soon this will be solved.

Meanwhile we also have a full build system for gnome.

Rgds
Saxa
http://twitter.com/Joe_Goes Joe Goés

Does not work on 13 .37
http://www.facebook.com/tetraetila.linux Tetraetila Linux

Don’t work!

root@aspire:/home/tetraetila# lynx –source http://gnomeslackbuild.org/net-install | bash
Downloading and installing slapt-get…

–2013-04-09 22:37:22– http://mirrors.gnomeslackbuild.org/gsb/gsb-_slackware-/gsb/ad/slapt-get-.txz
Resolving mirrors.gnomeslackbuild.org (mirrors.gnomeslackbuild.org)… 208.113.175.60
Connecting to mirrors.gnomeslackbuild.org (mirrors.gnomeslackbuild.org)|208.113.175.60|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://ftp.slackware.pl/pub/gnomeslackbuild/gsb/gsb-_slackware-/gsb/ad/slapt-get-.txz [following]
–2013-04-09 22:37:31– http://ftp.slackware.pl/pub/gnomeslackbuild/gsb/gsb-_slackware-/gsb/ad/slapt-get-.txz
Resolving http://ftp.slackware.pl (ftp.slackware.pl)… 213.184.21.198, 2001:40f8:3::2
Connecting to http://ftp.slackware.pl (ftp.slackware.pl)|213.184.21.198|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2013-04-09 22:37:34 ERROR 404: Not Found.

bash: line 84: [: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e: unary operator expected

slapt-get download md5′s don’t match! Exiting.

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