Hello mimosa,
Thanks for that, will follow the advice.
Anyhow I guess we can call this one solved.
Paul.

Thanks to both gapan and mimosa.
My xfce is version 4.10; not sure how to get the Salix version.
Anyhow, did the slapt-get and slapt-src clean, gained 1.5 GB
Crises over.
Really appreciate the rundown on cloning the hard drive.
I have done a few things like compiling a DosBox (with considerable help ...

When I installed Salix on my old 800 Mhz Notebook which has a 10 GB hard drive, I finished up with one GB left over which I guessed to be enough for housekeeping activity and updates.
I was wrong, I have just finished up with 8 MB of hard drive space, which obviously has its problems.
After deleting ...

Hello laprjs,
I ran the following commands in the /usr/share/fonts directory from the command line as per the instructions on the link you provided:

grep -nr samy . | sed 's@\(Samyak\)@@'
grep -nr oriy . | sed 's@\(Oriya\)@@'

and found the following files with references to these fonts in the ...

Hello mimosa,
Updated the fonts database and tried to find reference to the oriya font as instructed, but this came back empty handed.
Updated the font indexes with this script from another post:

# Update the X font indexes:
if [ -x /usr/bin/fc-cache ]; then
echo "Updating X font indexes: /usr/bin ...

Hello gapan and mimosa, we meet again, and thanks for that.
Tried to uninstall both the indic fonts and the oriya fonts, but Salix comes up and says that the fonts are not installed.
Then when I run Winetricks it complains that it will not install the dotnet extensions in Wine because the oriya ...

Hi, can anyone give me the right syntax to uninstall the oriya fonts?
When trying to install the dotnet extensions in Wine it refused to do so because of potential conflicts with the oriya font.
The notice that came up gave the following syntax to uninstall the font:
sudo dpkg -r ttf-oriya-fonts ...

Hi all, thanks for that information.
And sorry for the delay in looking at this, but I had to finish a massive assignment.
Anyhow, I downloaded and installed Cabextract first and after that Winetricks installed without a hiccup.
Then of course the trick was to find the Winetricks launcher and no ...

Is there any way to get Winetricks installed on Salix?
It is essential in order to get some programs running on Wine.
It does not exist in the Gslapt package manager list and Sourcery bombs out because the basic dependencies that it tries to install cannot be found and downloaded.
Any help would be ...

Hi All, Thanks for that information.
I get the general feeling that this is fairly complex and one can screw up marvelously with Sourcery.
So maybe I will stick for now to the Gslapt Package Manager, that at least works most of the time.
One thing I am particularly concerned about is the space I ...