Slackware64 Post-Installation

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Enabling multilib support on Slackware64

# SLACKVER=14.1 # Obviously, change this per the version
# mkdir multilib
# cd multilib
# lftp -c "open http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/ ; mirror -c -e ${SLACKVER}"
# cd ${SLACKVER}
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new *.t?z
# upgradepkg --install-new slackware64-compat32/*-compat32/*.t?z

Upgrade all built-in Packages

Select a mirror (uncomment a line) in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors Then run:

# slackpkg update gpg
# slackpkg update
# slackpkg upgrade-all

Blacklisting Packages

Now, blacklist packages gotten from SBo & alienBob's repository Add the following to /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

[0-9]+_SBo
[0-9]+alien

Installing SBOPKG

As root:

• Get newest version from: http://www.sbopkg.org/downloads.php *At writing: http://sbopkg.googlecode.com/files/sbopkg-0.37.0-noarch-1_cng.tgz
• installpkg sbopkg*.tgz

Adding a new user

# adduser

Then, if needed:

# visudo

And add the user to sudo

Configuring Graphical Logins

If the system is to boot into X by default, Open /etc/inittab as root, change the following line:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

To this:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

This sets your default run-level to 4, which is Slackware's "graphics-only" mode (with one extra tty open, just in case, on vty6). Save, and on your next reboot, the system will boot into a nice graphical login.

You can manually enter run-level 4 by entering, as root, init 4 To select or switch between available desktop environments, run xwmconfig as root (wmconfig from CLI)