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by jsfarinet
5. Mar 2018, 18:14
Forum: Problems
Topic: how to conig lilo to make an internal hd bootable as usb
Replies: 2
Views: 1957

Re: how to conig lilo to make an internal hd bootable as usb

Thanks mimosa, i'll follow your pointers! And yes, xmonad is really very nice (and extremely responsive, i find). Think: I'm not really a technician but as for me, i looked for a tiling window manager, because i do translations and i love to have side by side the original to my (before i used JWM, w...
by jsfarinet
4. Mar 2018, 20:08
Forum: Problems
Topic: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery
Replies: 8
Views: 4457

Re: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery

hi laprjns, thanks for your reply. I did what you suggested, but the result still is: ---- sudo sh VirtualBox-5.2.8-121009-Linux_amd64.run Passwort: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation............. VirtualBox Version 5.2.8 r121009 (2018-02-26T15:4...
by jsfarinet
4. Mar 2018, 14:14
Forum: Problems
Topic: how to conig lilo to make an internal hd bootable as usb
Replies: 2
Views: 1957

how to conig lilo to make an internal hd bootable as usb

My problem is this: i have a nice and working salix setup with xmonad as desktop. Now, i changed hthe internal hd of my laptop and i wanted to keep the previous INTERNAL hd as an external and bootable device with all the stuff on it. Now the problem is: while when attached to the internal sata contr...
by jsfarinet
4. Mar 2018, 13:33
Forum: Problems
Topic: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery
Replies: 8
Views: 4457

Re: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery

gapan thanks a lot! I did, got an error msg about problems configuring vbox. I did what they proposed to do and then i got this: ----- sudo /sbin/vboxconfig vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. This system is currently not set up to build kernel m...
by jsfarinet
4. Mar 2018, 11:15
Forum: Problems
Topic: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery
Replies: 8
Views: 4457

Re: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery

Thanks gapan!

Sorry, if this is a dumb question: How do i install a binary into Salix? And which one?
For what i see they offer .deb and .rpm packages ...

TIA
by jsfarinet
4. Mar 2018, 07:36
Forum: Problems
Topic: cannot install virtualbox from sourcery
Replies: 8
Views: 4457

cannot install virtualbox from sourcery

I tried to install virtualbox from sourcery but the installation failed with this error: ------- *** Building 'vboxdrv' module *** make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/slapt-src/system/virtualbox-kernel/virtualbox-kernel-5.0.40/vboxdrv“ wird betreten Makefile:195: *** Error: KERN_DIR does not point to a d...
by jsfarinet
8. Feb 2017, 17:56
Forum: Problems
Topic: xfce4 session configuration problem
Replies: 2
Views: 1837

xfce4 session configuration problem

My situation is this: I run - on top of xfce4 - xmonad. That worked pretty fine since, after an upgrade xmonad was not able to handle correctly the xfce4 panel (i don't know - and even less - inm understand the reason why). Now, tint2 panel is handled correctly and i want to substitute the default x...
by jsfarinet
24. Jan 2017, 18:32
Forum: Problems
Topic: Problem to install virtualbox
Replies: 1
Views: 1624

Problem to install virtualbox

I'm unable to install virtualbox regardless i do it via sourcery or by installing it piece by piece from sbo. When i run the script delivered by i get the following errors in the log file: VirtualBox 5.1.14 r112924 installer, built 2017-01-16T17:06:12Z. Testing system setup... Installing VirtualBox ...
by jsfarinet
16. Jan 2017, 00:34
Forum: Problems
Topic: Firefox 45.5 security issue
Replies: 12
Views: 5021

Re: Firefox 45.5 security issue

Thanks gapan!
by jsfarinet
15. Jan 2017, 22:04
Forum: Problems
Topic: Firefox 45.5 security issue
Replies: 12
Views: 5021

Re: Firefox 45.5 security issue

1) Which would be the Firefox version to get from the repos? I see there are several? The one that slapt-get/gslapt upgrades to automatically. Very likely , i do not see here something: But which one out of this three gslapt upgrades to automatically: 45.02.0esr-x86_64-1 45.02.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14...