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talk:slackware:beginners_guide [2013/02/09 23:37 (UTC)] – [Select UTF8 codepage] alienbobtalk:slackware:beginners_guide [2017/11/06 10:18 (UTC)] (current) – [Installing updates using slackpkg] bormant
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 > Hi John. you are right, this page lacks instructions about localization. Luckily we already have a complete article about that, so I will add a link to it. \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2013/02/09 15:35// > Hi John. you are right, this page lacks instructions about localization. Luckily we already have a complete article about that, so I will add a link to it. \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2013/02/09 15:35//
 +
 +Hello again :)
 +remember also, when i configure my servers  - machines who always work only in CLI mode, without X, i edit \\ 
 +/etc/rc.d/rc.M file \\ 
 +\\ 
 +# Screen blanks after 15 minutes idle time, and powers down in one hour \\ 
 +# if the kernel supports APM or ACPI power management: \\ 
 +/bin/setterm -blank 15 -powersave powerdown -powerdown 60 \\ 
 +\\ 
 +mostly comment that 
 +/bin/setterm -blank ... //
 +line out, because screen goes to blank every xx minutes really annoying. when i not necessary to see what happens with system in monitor, i simply turn monitor off by power on them. maybe that turn-out blanking screen instruction  also help some people....?
 +\\ 
 +\\ 
 +update: simply comment out do not work - monitor anyway going to sleep after a pause.
 +i made \\ 
 +/bin/setterm -blank 0 \\ 
 +## -powersave powerdown -powerdown 60 \\ 
 +
 +
 +// 
 +
 +====== Amendment to the Switch to a Generic Kernel Section ======
 +
 +The entry which should be added to Lilo will depend on which kernel the initrd and modules are compiled for.
 +
 +For me, the modules were being compiled for the smp-kernel [[http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa447/chk1827/slackware2.png
 +|[1]]]-
 +<code>
 +mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.29-smp -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb2 -m usb-storage:ehci-hcd:usbhid:ohci-hcd:mbcache:jbd2:ext4 -u -o /boot/initrd.gz
 +</code>
 +
 +And if I added generic kernel to Lilo I would get the error ''No kernel modules found for Linux 3.2.29'' when booting [[http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa447/chk1827/slackware.png
 +|[2]]].
 +
 +So I had to add to Lilo the smp-kernel-
 +<code>
 +image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-3.2.29-smp
 +</code>
 +
 + --- //[[wiki:user:aaditya|Aaditya Bagga]] 23/10/2013 07:56//
 +
 +====== Hostname ======
 +
 +Hello, I don't have an account, so I can't make this edit, but: Hostname!
 +
 +If you use network manager, you need to edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf to change the hostname.
 +
 +Hostname!
 +
 +----
 +A rather cosmetic change suggested:
 +<code>
 +s/file and then run <code> /file and then run <code>/
 +</code>
 +This would remove the (useless, IMHO) empty line that begins the following Code block.\\
 + --- //[[wiki:user:didierspaier|Didier Spaier]] 2015/06/30 04:04//
 +
 +
 +====== Installing updates using slackpkg ======
 +>><code>slackpkg install-new</code> installs NEW packages marked with "Added" in ChangeLog.txt, so it only suitable to 1) upgrade between releases (for ex. 14.1 to 14.2) or to 2) update current. This do nothing to update stable release version that doesn't get any NEW packages, only /patches/*.
 +
 +>> For slackpkg ''update'', ''install-new'', ''upgrade-all'', ''clean-system'' sequence the ''install-new'' and ''clean-system'' are odd and useless on stable release . \\ --- //[[wiki:user:bormant|Serg Bormant]] 2017/11/05 11:40 (UTC)//
 +
 +>That is not correct, as history proves. Sometimes, a package gets added as a "patch" after release-date, and then "''slackpkg install-new''" is needed. From the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog.txt: <code>
 ++--------------------------+
 +Sat Mar 16 07:10:09 UTC 2013
 +patches/packages/libyaml-0.1.4-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz:  Added.
 +  This is needed for Psych (YAML wrapper) in the new Ruby package.
 +</code> \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2017/11/05 21:42 (UTC)//
 +
 +Yes, since 8.1 (first release with versioned packages) it was only tree times by two reasons:<code>
 +9.1: patches/packages/kernel-headers-2.4.24-i386-1.tgz:  Added.
 +
 +13.1: patches/packages/libyaml-0.1.4-i486-1_slack13.1.txz:  Added.
 +13.37: patches/packages/libyaml-0.1.4-i486-1_slack13.37.txz:  Added.
 +</code>
 +Readind ChangeLog.txt can help to discover this rare case and launch ''slackpkg install libyaml'' if needed. But if skip some series on install she will be prompted to install NEW (Added) package on //every// ''slackpkg install-new'' run (yes, blacklist can help and partial install is not supported :) ).\\
 + --- //[[wiki:user:bormant|Serg Bormant]] 2017/11/06 09:33 (UTC)//
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