The latest release of Slackel Linux renews and improves the mashup of Slackware and Salix built around an Openbox pseudo desktop environment. Slackel 7.2 hit the download servers on July 20, eight months after the release of Slackel 7.1 Openbox edition. Slackel also is available in two much older versions running the KDE and Fluxbox environments. All releases are available in 64-bit and 32-bit builds. Slackel, based in Greece, is a Linux distro a step away from the typical mainstream Debian-based Linux OS line.
If I may Mr.Germain sir, might I recommend that if/once any other fellow distro spelunker are willing to then get Slackel out of their VM and onto a non production computer (just as a failsafe) then this post install update/upgrade step(s) are crucial:-
** one might wonder why I've linked this one instead of the dev's own post at Slackel's forum. Because what he posted here instead was the better solution :s
Yes by the above I mean at post installation, successful boot to desktop and configured internet then exit to tty1 (ctrl alt f1) and on with those commands. Precisely with this version 7.2, if anyone tries to go the lazier route and update through the GUI gslapt FIRST, you WILL end up in that world of reboot - fail to boot hurt.
Your post is very useful. Let me express some thoughts in detail.
These above commands are for salix linux which use spkg in slapt-get/gslapt to upgrade packages.
spkg has some bugs which lead to some failures when upgrading packages as glibc* or samba or mariadb. Upgrade report a post installation failure.
spkg is fast because do not do a preinstallation.
Slackel is a rolling release ( based on current tree of slackware, where things change quite often every day) and i faced these problems.
Stability is important for the system, especially for new linux users, so i decided the slackel since previous edition to use slackware native tools like installpkg, upgradepkg etc. So system always will be upgraded without failures.
Upgrading the system is more slow because of preinstallation but job done for sure without break the system. This is important for new users.
You cannot upgrade the kernel, glibc etc using the gui gslapt application.
EXCLUDE=^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc.*,^kernel-.*,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings.* in slapt-getrc file
You can upgrade the kernel, glibc, aaa_base by running in a terminal
In slackware, slackel, salix the user is the master of its system so he has to take this decision
In slackware, slackel, salix you know what is going on in your system. Have full control.
and ALWAYS have to run in the end before reboot
sudo update-grub
otherwise system will be unbootable which also can
be fixed using a live iso or another distro installed in the same machine to chroot in the slackel system.
Yesterday, i installed slackel-openbox-7.2 64 bit in a external ssd disk and make a full upgrade using the above commands. Everything went fine.
I did this because i develop mate slackel edition and after tests maybe it will be on Sourceforge servers for anyone.
I hope to not get you tired, writing too much.
Dimitris
No no Sir djemos that was all a very necessary post. I should have asked before at your own Slackel's forum as to why but I haven't registered there yet hehehe.
A MATE edition? New one? Good good as there's quite a following for MATE DE these days. Personally I still prefer the way you implement Openbox and on my fairly old Thinkpad T60 it's (if not) probably the fastest and lowest sys resource distro yet.
Hopefully the tests fare well. Will there be any alpha/beta ISOs? Just asking though understandably in between the tests that might be too much extra work.
Slackel Linux Works Well Inside Its Openbox
Posted by: Jack M. Germain August 16, 2019 10:46 AMThe latest release of Slackel Linux renews and improves the mashup of Slackware and Salix built around an Openbox pseudo desktop environment. Slackel 7.2 hit the download servers on July 20, eight months after the release of Slackel 7.1 Openbox edition. Slackel also is available in two much older versions running the KDE and Fluxbox environments. All releases are available in 64-bit and 32-bit builds. Slackel, based in Greece, is a Linux distro a step away from the typical mainstream Debian-based Linux OS line.
forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=7786#p44927
** one might wonder why I've linked this one instead of the dev's own post at Slackel's forum. Because what he posted here instead was the better solution :s
sudo slapt-get -u
sudo slapt-get -i slapt-get
sudo slapt-get --upgrade
sudo slapt-get -i aaa_base glibc glibc-i18n glibc-zoneinfo glibc-profile
sudo slapt-get --upgrade
sudo slapt-get -i kernel-firmware kernel-headers kernel-huge kernel-modules kernel-source
sudo update-grub
Yes by the above I mean at post installation, successful boot to desktop and configured internet then exit to tty1 (ctrl alt f1) and on with those commands. Precisely with this version 7.2, if anyone tries to go the lazier route and update through the GUI gslapt FIRST, you WILL end up in that world of reboot - fail to boot hurt.
Your post is very useful. Let me express some thoughts in detail.
These above commands are for salix linux which use spkg in slapt-get/gslapt to upgrade packages.
spkg has some bugs which lead to some failures when upgrading packages as glibc* or samba or mariadb. Upgrade report a post installation failure.
spkg is fast because do not do a preinstallation.
Slackel is a rolling release ( based on current tree of slackware, where things change quite often every day) and i faced these problems.
Stability is important for the system, especially for new linux users, so i decided the slackel since previous edition to use slackware native tools like installpkg, upgradepkg etc. So system always will be upgraded without failures.
Upgrading the system is more slow because of preinstallation but job done for sure without break the system. This is important for new users.
You cannot upgrade the kernel, glibc etc using the gui gslapt application.
EXCLUDE=^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc.*,^kernel-.*,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings.* in slapt-getrc file
You can upgrade the kernel, glibc, aaa_base by running in a terminal
sudo slapt-get -i aaa_base glibc glibc-i18n glibc-zoneinfo glibc-profile kernel-firmware kernel-headers kernel-huge kernel-modules kernel-source
In slackware, slackel, salix the user is the master of its system so he has to take this decision
In slackware, slackel, salix you know what is going on in your system. Have full control.
and ALWAYS have to run in the end before reboot
sudo update-grub
otherwise system will be unbootable which also can
be fixed using a live iso or another distro installed in the same machine to chroot in the slackel system.
Yesterday, i installed slackel-openbox-7.2 64 bit in a external ssd disk and make a full upgrade using the above commands. Everything went fine.
I did this because i develop mate slackel edition and after tests maybe it will be on Sourceforge servers for anyone.
I hope to not get you tired, writing too much.
Dimitris
A MATE edition? New one? Good good as there's quite a following for MATE DE these days. Personally I still prefer the way you implement Openbox and on my fairly old Thinkpad T60 it's (if not) probably the fastest and lowest sys resource distro yet.
Hopefully the tests fare well. Will there be any alpha/beta ISOs? Just asking though understandably in between the tests that might be too much extra work.