Hello gaucho,

thanks for sharing.

I have a friend who is blind, a former maths teacher an avid TexLive user and is interested in getting software more recent than the ones provided as packages. He uses Slint (another Slackware derivative) rather than Salix but i assume that your instructions are ...

As an aside, a PC can often boot off a SD card, if in an USB enclosure.

I would check that all files and directories in /home/lluis belong to the user lluis, as they should.

https://docs.salixos.org/faq/package-manager-wants-to-downgrade-packages/

The only thing that I can add is that you could create a local repository and add that with an increased priority in your /etc/slapt-get/slapt-get.rc. Read more on your /usr/doc/slapt-get-0.11.6/FAQ file.

Oh, and that ...

I'd like to provide something like that for MATE in Slint. As an aside I like the Budgie desktop (tried in a Qemu VM) that provides this feature in the desktop settings GUI.

Thanks for asking Hugo and sorry for the late answer.

There is no schedule. I want to provide an ISO with only one desktop (Mate), which will be a live one and with less packages by default: somehow a design similar to Salix (other desktops could be added in an installed system) I am now trying to ...

The news are now translated into Swedish, thanks Ingemar

Hello,

as I do not see Slackware 15.1 on he horizon I will provide a new intermediate ISO for Slint 15.0.

To prepare it and make sure the transition will be smooth for already installed systems I have uploaded a huge batch of updates - I mean huge, more than 200 packages new or upgraded :lol:

I ...

Fond this: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardw ... ia_optimus and that: https://github.com/WhiteWolf1776/Bumblebee-SlackBuilds (3 years old). Good luck.

This will not solve the issue but maybe try this ISO, just to see if the USB disk adapter is recognized with another installer: http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso.


Please, give me precise installation steps (I prefer from the terminal). I have already ...