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studioware:quick_start [2016/07/18 18:51 (UTC)] – [2) Installation] divestudioware:quick_start [2017/02/24 21:36 (UTC)] – [1) Preinstallation Tasks] dive
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 To install our slackbuilds we have an application to help the process. To install our slackbuilds we have an application to help the process.
  
-To make the process a little simpler we have an application to download and install them: sepkg for building from slackbuilds, although sbopkg can also be used. It supports queue files, and will even download the queues from our server if needed.+To make the process a little simpler we have an application to download, build and install packages: sepkg. It supports queue files, and will even download the queues from our server if needed.
  
-===== 1) Preparing Sepkg =====+You will need around 12GB of free space to build all the packages in a full install. 
 +===== 1) Preinstallation Tasks ===== 
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 +  * Install JDK or OpenJDK. AlienBob has packages here: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/openjdk/ This is for portmidi. 
 +  * Create Avahi user and group (for 14.2 onward): 
 +groupadd -g 214 avahi\\ 
 +useradd -u 214 -g 214 -c "Avahi" -d /dev/null -s /bin/false avahi\\ 
 +Install fltk (for audio/yoshimi) from extra\\ 
 +===== 2) Preparing Sepkg =====
  
 First you need to grab the latest versions and install it with installpkg: First you need to grab the latest versions and install it with installpkg:
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 You should now be able to build/install packages. You should now be able to build/install packages.
  
-===== 2) Installation =====+===== 3) Installation =====
  
 We have three main categories of applications: audio, video and photo. They are maintained by queue files. There is also a 'full' queue. We have three main categories of applications: audio, video and photo. They are maintained by queue files. There is also a 'full' queue.
  
-If you want a certain category - say audio, then you can use sepkg to download and build/install all the audio applications with the -q flag:+If you want a certain category - say audio - then you can use sepkg to download and build/install all the audio applications with the -q flag:
  
 <code>sepkg -q audio</code> <code>sepkg -q audio</code>
  
-<note important>Either jdk or openjdk is a buildtime requirement when using sepkg to build the audio or full queue. jdk can be found in the extra/ directory on any of the slackware mirrors, or alienBob has packages for openjdk here: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/openjdk/</note> 
 ===== 3) Done ===== ===== 3) Done =====
  

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