It needs libidl.

But really, do yourself a favor, download the binary from the virtualbox homepage and install it.

This is awesome. I was spending too much time trying to get this to work from spi. Two minutes after finding this thread I got this from the binary download:

Verifying archive ...

Hey guys - I just wanted to drop in and mention how much I am liking Salix. I loved Slackware but hated tickering around with dependencies all the time. This is the perfect blend of Slackware's stability and KISS philosophy with user-friendly design.

I hope to stock around for a long time.

@baran,

Thanks - I had to uninstall wicd even after disabling it in the System Services because it kept starting up anyway.

Everything works fine as you've described.

Hi everyone - I am really liking Salix, and want to get it set up just right.

I was wondering if there are instructions on how to switch from using wicd to NetworkManager. I am guessing the steps are

1) Install NetworkManager (easy through spi)

2) Uninstall or Disable Wicd (this is the part I ...

Thanks guys - using spi did the trick (I wonder why sbopkg didn't work?)

I also had to use the solution posted in the linuxquestions.org linked above.

@ibka,

Thank you - I will try that.

I removed KeePass through "sudo slapt-get --remove KeePass"

and I have just ran "sudo spi -i KeePass".

Will let you know the results - it is building mono right now.

Hello everyone,

Sorry to have to ask so many questions on this forum. I need to install mono and libgdiplus in order to get Keepass to work.

I couldn't find mono or libgdiplus through slapt-get so I installed sbopkg using these instructions:

http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_use_sbopkg_with ...

gapan wrote:You probably need to install the kernel-source package.

Thanks gapan - that was exactly the problem.

Everything is working well now.

Hello Everyone,

I am a Slackware user making my way to Salix. Loved Slackware but need dependency resolution. (Tried Fedora and didn't click with it).

I am trying to install VMWare Player - but the installer is failing and I am not sure even where to begin trying to fix it.

I downloaded the ...