A newbie guide to installing Salix 64bit plus Wine?
Posted: 7. Sep 2017, 19:53
Hello.
I’d like for this post to also become a short and friendly newbie guide for those that might face the same problems that I do (and I think they are quite many).
The idea is that it’s easier to read all the info in one page, rather than hunt for each issue separately in the whole forum. After my install is done, and the install steps are correctly defined, the essential information here could maybe make it to the Forum’s Tutorial section; then simply updated for each Salix release accordingly.
I don’t intend to take credit for the guide, since I’m still new to these things and I will be the one who is guided after all.
I want to dual boot Windows 7 with Salix (salixlive64-xfce-14.2.1). On this PC, I could already dual boot Windows 7 with Xubuntu and even Debian in the past. So the PC itself is fine and I know the basics of dual booting, although I’m very much still beginner level when it comes to Gnu/Linux use and configuration.
Since Salix 14.2.1 is quite a new version and the Startup Guide is from 2015, I wonder if everything in the Startup Guide is up-to-date and works with the new version as well.
So before I install, I’ll try to make a sketch here of the main steps I will use to make the system workable and capable of running the Windows apps I need via Wine/PlayOnLinux. These Windows apps are already known for me to work in Wine/PlayOnLinux on Xubuntu, so their compatibility is not an issue.
I am aware that the process won’t be very easy, but hopefully, with some help from the benevolent experts here, it will still be doable. By being able to properly install Wine/PlayOnLinux on a 64bit Salix I will consider accomplished the mission of installing Salix as a daily use Gnu/Linux distro.
(I am aware that I could just use Windows for those apps, but there are good reasons why I prefer them via Wine in Gnu/Linux, the most important being that I want to learn more about Gnu/Linux and such a set-up would allow me some very useful hands-on experience.)
Below are the steps. I would really appreciate some guidance and correction on any of them when necessary.
1. Hopefully the Salix installer will auto-detect my “Unnalocated space” and its size from the hard drive and offer to auto-partition it. Otherwise, I’ll have to create the main bootable partition plus the swap, as the Startup Guide indicates.
2. After the Salix installs, right after booting into the graphical desktop, the first thing I will do is to update the system. Here I’m not exactly sure how to proceed. Should I add any repositories first or just go with the defaults? Then should I use Gslapt→Update→Mark All Upgrades? Would I use the same update method afterwards to regularly update the system?
3. After updating system, I should install the graphic card drivers; in my case Nvidia. I suppose the information here:
https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_In ... DIA_driver
is still up-to-date?
4. I will also try to set the login screen resolution to match that of the desktop. From my experience with other distros, the login screen’s resolution does not follow the desktop one. In Xubuntu, I have tweaked something in Nvidia Settings for that, following an online guide, but can’t remember exactly the procedure (I should take notes more often…). Any exact direction here is, again, much appreciated.
5. After the Nvidia drivers are installed, I usually test them by installing SuperTuxKart. How will I install that?
It’s not just for testing purposes though, since SuperTuxKart is intended to remain on my system for as long as the distro stays. That game is just Fun incarnate!
6. I also intend to install ‘gufw’ and Clamav/Clamtk (the last is merely personal taste, a very optional step for anyone else)
7. Now comes the hard part. Wine and PlayOnLinux. It seems I have to install ‘multilib’ first in order to use 32 bit libraries on a 64bit system; from my forum search I’ve found the most recent mini-guide on the subject here:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7057&p=40715&hilit=multilib#p40715
by djemos.
But there is also:
https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_multilib
Which one should I follow?
8. After multilib is successfully installed, what are the steps required for installing Wine? Should I first install the 64 bit version and then the 32 bit one? Anything else I should know here? I suppose PlayOnLinux will install fine as soon as Wine works well.
9. In order to install any other software not appearing in Gslapt or Sourcery, how should I proceed?
10. Any there any system maintenance procedures, apart from system update, that I should be aware of?
………………………………..
These should do it. Let me know about the best way to make this a proper tutorial.
Thank you for your assistance.
I’d like for this post to also become a short and friendly newbie guide for those that might face the same problems that I do (and I think they are quite many).
The idea is that it’s easier to read all the info in one page, rather than hunt for each issue separately in the whole forum. After my install is done, and the install steps are correctly defined, the essential information here could maybe make it to the Forum’s Tutorial section; then simply updated for each Salix release accordingly.
I don’t intend to take credit for the guide, since I’m still new to these things and I will be the one who is guided after all.
I want to dual boot Windows 7 with Salix (salixlive64-xfce-14.2.1). On this PC, I could already dual boot Windows 7 with Xubuntu and even Debian in the past. So the PC itself is fine and I know the basics of dual booting, although I’m very much still beginner level when it comes to Gnu/Linux use and configuration.
Since Salix 14.2.1 is quite a new version and the Startup Guide is from 2015, I wonder if everything in the Startup Guide is up-to-date and works with the new version as well.
So before I install, I’ll try to make a sketch here of the main steps I will use to make the system workable and capable of running the Windows apps I need via Wine/PlayOnLinux. These Windows apps are already known for me to work in Wine/PlayOnLinux on Xubuntu, so their compatibility is not an issue.
I am aware that the process won’t be very easy, but hopefully, with some help from the benevolent experts here, it will still be doable. By being able to properly install Wine/PlayOnLinux on a 64bit Salix I will consider accomplished the mission of installing Salix as a daily use Gnu/Linux distro.
(I am aware that I could just use Windows for those apps, but there are good reasons why I prefer them via Wine in Gnu/Linux, the most important being that I want to learn more about Gnu/Linux and such a set-up would allow me some very useful hands-on experience.)
Below are the steps. I would really appreciate some guidance and correction on any of them when necessary.
1. Hopefully the Salix installer will auto-detect my “Unnalocated space” and its size from the hard drive and offer to auto-partition it. Otherwise, I’ll have to create the main bootable partition plus the swap, as the Startup Guide indicates.
2. After the Salix installs, right after booting into the graphical desktop, the first thing I will do is to update the system. Here I’m not exactly sure how to proceed. Should I add any repositories first or just go with the defaults? Then should I use Gslapt→Update→Mark All Upgrades? Would I use the same update method afterwards to regularly update the system?
3. After updating system, I should install the graphic card drivers; in my case Nvidia. I suppose the information here:
https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_In ... DIA_driver
is still up-to-date?
4. I will also try to set the login screen resolution to match that of the desktop. From my experience with other distros, the login screen’s resolution does not follow the desktop one. In Xubuntu, I have tweaked something in Nvidia Settings for that, following an online guide, but can’t remember exactly the procedure (I should take notes more often…). Any exact direction here is, again, much appreciated.
5. After the Nvidia drivers are installed, I usually test them by installing SuperTuxKart. How will I install that?
It’s not just for testing purposes though, since SuperTuxKart is intended to remain on my system for as long as the distro stays. That game is just Fun incarnate!
6. I also intend to install ‘gufw’ and Clamav/Clamtk (the last is merely personal taste, a very optional step for anyone else)
7. Now comes the hard part. Wine and PlayOnLinux. It seems I have to install ‘multilib’ first in order to use 32 bit libraries on a 64bit system; from my forum search I’ve found the most recent mini-guide on the subject here:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7057&p=40715&hilit=multilib#p40715
by djemos.
But there is also:
https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_multilib
Which one should I follow?
8. After multilib is successfully installed, what are the steps required for installing Wine? Should I first install the 64 bit version and then the 32 bit one? Anything else I should know here? I suppose PlayOnLinux will install fine as soon as Wine works well.
9. In order to install any other software not appearing in Gslapt or Sourcery, how should I proceed?
10. Any there any system maintenance procedures, apart from system update, that I should be aware of?
………………………………..
These should do it. Let me know about the best way to make this a proper tutorial.
Thank you for your assistance.