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Introduction
There are a few ways of installing studioware applications. We have both pre-built packages and slackbuild scripts that create packages from source.
To make the process a little simpler we have two applications to download and install them: studiopkg for packages, and sepkg for building from slackbuilds. They both support queue files, and will even download the queues from our server if needed.
1) Preparing Studiopkg and Sepkg
First you need to grab the latest versions and install them with installpkg:
http://studioware.org/files/tools/studiopkg/
http://studioware.org/files/tools/sepkg/
# installpkg studiopkg-VERSION-noarch-TAG.txz # installpkg sepkg-VERSION-noarch-TAG.txz
Next step is to check that they are both pointing at the right branch.
Edit /etc/studiopkg/studiopkg.conf
and change SWVERSION
to reflect your Slackware version - eg:
SWVERSION=14.1
The ARCH is worked out automatically.
You can also set CHECKGPG=ON or OFF for your needs. We recommend ON.
Edit /etc/sepkg/sepkg.conf and change SWVERSION to also reflect your Slackware version.
Once that is done they need to fetch the latest file lists from our servers using the -u flag. Additionally studiopkg needs to import our gpg key:
studiopkg gpg studiopkg -u sepkg -u
You should now be able to build/install packages.
2) Installation
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 either studiopkg or sepkg to download and build/install all the audio applications with the -q flag:
studiopkg -q audio
or
sepkg -q audio
When using studiopkg it will check the package md5 and gpg. If these are wrong you may need to retry the download and/or delete the cache using the –delete-cache option. It will prompt for retry download. If it keeps throwing up an error then please contact us with the details.