mimosa, which version of glfw did you use? The one in Salix repos is a bit outdated, but I upload the latest version in people.salixos.org regularly. I don't use spotify though so I can't tell if this will help - and I doubt it will help with the keyring problem. However maybe it is worth a try to u...

Even though the links in the first post mention an outdated version of SDL2, the actual linked packages are up-to-date, and I will keep them that way. As soon I'm aware a new version is out, it will be there (after testing, of course). So if anyone is interested, just ignore the version mentioned ab...

As a normal Slackel (and Salix) user, I already have Slackel 7.7 just by doing system updates. I especially appreciated GCC 13.2 and Emacs 29.1. Although a rolling distribution, Slackel is stable and easy to maintain. Great job, djemos! Fun fact: I used to live very close to the other side of the br...

The logical way to do this is to have gnupg dependent on a cli package, say pinentry-ncurses, and gpa dependent on a GUI package, say pinentry-GTK3. But as you said Slackware will never do that - it doesn't have to, since they have the "install them all" policy. Still, it is silly to use a...

I guess I somehow removed slang then (although I really don't think I did that). No matter, feel free to rename thread with [Solved] as a prefix (I would do that if I could).

I'm guessing the only way this wouldn't work, is if you removed the slang package manually, therefore removing the /usr/lib64/libslang.so.2 symlink and then tried to install jed. I don't know what happened here, but I started with a standard installation, and I didn't actually remove anything. I in...

No, Salix should not use Debian at all. If I want Debian, I'll use Debian (or Devuan in this case, because I don't like Systemd or other Poetteringware in general). Who mentioned Debian in this thread? Debian is infected by systemd to the bone - not to mention other crapware from the same bunch of ...

"Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky" says an old great song (and I'm not sure about those either). That being said, Slackware proved to be too good to die. It is the most "deathproof" distribution out there, and the one that it is still around after 30 years. Others come...

Although gnupg and gnupg2 will work on Salix 15, they have limited use because you can't generate keys. gpg2 --full-generate-key won't work because it needs pinentry , which is not installed as a dependency. Same with gpa , the graphical interface for gnupg. I am not quite sure you will consider thi...

The jed editor makes extensive use of the S-Lang library / scripting language, which is provided by the package slang . However slapt-get / Gslapt won't pull slang if you try to install jed. So running jed won't work because it will be missing shared library libslang.so.2. Therefore slang must be ad...