Me personally, I recommend one of the distros at the top of Distrowatch list, to people who are new and/or non technical. I use one of those for the longevity and community support it offer. I usually have 3 distros installed on my desktop hdd, Mageia is my main os, Salix and currently Voidlinux. At...

Never mind. I have it working from the IRC channel.

The more the better, with that said, I have a 250gb HDD and Salix (xfce4) installed on a 30gb partition & a 2gb swap partition. I have other distros installed on their own partition, plus I have a 500gb external HDD to store large files and media files. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on...

happydog500 wrote:Unbelievable!
people are guessing even how to pronounce the OS.

Same with Linux...there are different ways different people pronounce it! Doesn't stop most people from using it!

I was able to finish the install after installing linuxdoc-tools. Thanks again.

After posting, I googled and saw I needed to install scons, which needed cmake installed also. Now I have a different error: CMake Error at cmake/ConkyPlatformChecks.cmake:417 (message): Unable to find program 'db2x_xsltproc' Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:37 (include) -- Config...

I upgraded 14.1 to 14.2 about a week ago. After trying to install conky from sources (slapt-src -i conky), it gives an error message about one of the dependencies, tolua++. It gives this error message after trying to compile it. tolua++.SlackBuild: line 64: scons: command not found fakeroot -- sh to...

mimosa wrote:I say Say-lix

That is how I pronounce it also.

Thanks guys. djemos, I tried your way and it worked. I believe the other way would have worked also. Maybe someone can update the How to install multilib wiki. Now I need to figure out getting the printer going.

I'll give it a try when I get home in the late AM hours. Thanks.