Totally new to Salix

[jsfarinet]

Not without any pain, but in the end sucessfully, i changed over from a Debian testing setup (i was used to used long time) to Salix (fluxbox). On the Debian setup i had practically a "re-build" of the openbox based crunchbang setup i would like to "translate" as far as possible to Salix now.

In this some questions that came up first hand to my mind:

Do Ceni, inxi, lxappearance exist in the Salix world? Or at least could it be added and then added to the repositories?

Menumaker (mmaker - a python script i got from the ArchLinux sources) i think that could be used without any major problem.

Substitute PCManFM by Thunar will work as well, i think.

Could i use Iceweasel and Icedove? And would it be possible to add the related repositories to the (G)slapt repositories?

That's it for the moment ...

Thanks in advance for your patience!

[EDIT]Small add-on: PCManFM does not mount attached usb devices. They are shown in Devices but i cannot access them - on the fly. Is there missing some software?[/EDIT]

[mimosa]

Welcome! Please have a look at the Salix Sartup Guide (link on homepage)

Some of the applicaitons you mention are available in the repositories or using Sourcery (q.v.).


Adding third party repositories is not recommended except for quite experienced users. I never have, myself.

[gapan]

Hi jsfarinet, welcome to the Salix forums.

Do Ceni, inxi, lxappearance exist in the Salix world? Or at least could it be added and then added to the repositories?

As mimosa noted, make sure you read the startup guide, especially the part about package management. These are the questions you should be asking the package manager about, not in the forums.

Menumaker (mmaker - a python script i got from the ArchLinux sources) i think that could be used without any major problem.

I have to ask: why do you think you need this?

Substitute PCManFM by Thunar will work as well, i think.

As long as you don't mind installing the extra xfce dependencies thunar needs, sure it will work fine.

Could i use Iceweasel and Icedove?

Why? Have you got anything against the Firefox and Thunderbird names?

And would it be possible to add the related repositories to the (G)slapt repositories?

What repositories?

[EDIT]Small add-on: PCManFM does not mount attached usb devices. They are shown in Devices but i cannot access them - on the fly. Is there missing some software?[/EDIT]

No. That is not a problem with a fresh installation. What do you mean exactly by "They are shown in Devices but i cannot access them - on the fly"? Is the device mounted or not?

[jsfarinet]

First of all, thanks for your patience!

Hi jsfarinet, welcome to the Salix forums.

Do Ceni, inxi, lxappearance exist in the Salix world? Or at least could it be added and then added to the repositories?

As mimosa noted, make sure you read the startup guide, especially the part about package management. These are the questions you should be asking the package manager about, not in the forums.

In "my" debian world, i could set many (not all) fluxbox settings via lxappearance. I saw there is in Sourcery a package"lxappearance-obconf" but it cannot install it because of missing dependencies.

Menumaker (mmaker - a python script i got from the ArchLinux sources) i think that could be used without any major problem.

I have to ask: why do you think you need this?

Because it simply makes the best Fluxbox menu i'm aware of (if you'd like i could show you a screenshot (?) ).

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And would it be possible to add the related repositories to the (G)slapt repositories?

What repositories?

In Debian i had some for inxi, ceni, and the iceweasel/icedove testing versions.

[EDIT]Small add-on: PCManFM does not mount attached usb devices. They are shown in Devices but i cannot access them - on the fly. Is there missing some software?[/EDIT]

No. That is not a problem with a fresh installation. What do you mean exactly by "They are shown in Devices but i cannot access them - on the fly"? Is the device mounted or not?

PcManFM recognizes there is a usb stick, but cannot mount it (it says "computer:///<name of the stick> is not valid"). Thunar OTOH does, but does not display the stick (which is labeld as "SALIX-INSTALLER") as a drive but as a folder (ok, that's a minor problem, one could live with that ).

[gapan]

In "my" debian world, i could set many (not all) fluxbox settings via lxappearance. I saw there is in Sourcery a package"lxappearance-obconf" but it cannot install it because of missing dependencies.

I'm not doubting the usefulness of lxappearance. That's why it's installed by default in fluxbox installations. Including yours, unless you removed it on purpose.

Again: read the package management section in the startup guide.

Because it simply makes the best Fluxbox menu i'm aware of (if you'd like i could show you a screenshot (?) ).

Please do, but I wonder what's "better" than the menu you already have?

In Debian i had some for inxi, ceni, and the iceweasel/icedove testing versions.

Salix is not debian. Again: what repositories?

PcManFM recognizes there is a usb stick, but cannot mount it (it says "computer:///<name of the stick> is not valid"). Thunar OTOH does, but does not display the stick (which is labeld as "SALIX-INSTALLER") as a drive but as a folder (ok, that's a minor problem, one could live with that ).

Are you sure that isn't a problem with this specific usb stick? How is it formatted? What kind of partitions does it have?

[jsfarinet]

In "my" debian world, i could set many (not all) fluxbox settings via lxappearance. I saw there is in Sourcery a package"lxappearance-obconf" but it cannot install it because of missing dependencies.

I'm not doubting the usefulness of lxappearance. That's why it's installed by default in fluxbox installations. Including yours, unless you removed it on purpose.

Again: read the package management section in the startup guide.

Shame on me Found it ...

As for packagemanagement: I tried to install the slackware software of SpiderOak but the installation failed:

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root[Downloads]# spkg SpiderOak-5.1.8-x86_64-1.tgz
Installing package SpiderOak-5.1.8-x86_64-1...
ERROR: can't open file for writing: No such file or directory
ERROR: error thrown
ERROR: Failed to extract file opt/SpiderOak/lib/plugins/systemtrayicon/libsni-qt.so.
ERROR: Package installation failed!

Is there something i can do? Eventually install manually (and if so how)?

Because it simply makes the best Fluxbox menu i'm aware of (if you'd like i could show you a screenshot (?) ).

Please do, but I wonder what's "better" than the menu you already have?

Is there a way to upload/attach binaries to the forum

In Debian i had some for inxi, ceni, and the iceweasel/icedove testing versions.

Salix is not debian. Again: what repositories?

That's clear (and the reason why i came over ). Anyway i'll look into it closer and will turn back eventually.

PcManFM recognizes there is a usb stick, but cannot mount it (it says "computer:///<name of the stick> is not valid"). Thunar OTOH does, but does not display the stick (which is labeld as "SALIX-INSTALLER") as a drive but as a folder (ok, that's a minor problem, one could live with that ).

Are you sure that isn't a problem with this specific usb stick? How is it formatted? What kind of partitions does it have?

You were right. Now all seems to work as expected. I'm wondering if this might be due to the fact the stick was attached during the boot process ...

[gapan]

As for packagemanagement: I tried to install the slackware software of SpiderOak but the installation failed:

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root[Downloads]# spkg SpiderOak-5.1.8-x86_64-1.tgz
Installing package SpiderOak-5.1.8-x86_64-1...
ERROR: can't open file for writing: No such file or directory
ERROR: error thrown
ERROR: Failed to extract file opt/SpiderOak/lib/plugins/systemtrayicon/libsni-qt.so.
ERROR: Package installation failed!

Is there something i can do? Eventually install manually (and if so how)?

Leaving aside the fact that I know nothing about what spideroak is and where you got that package from, which you should have mentioned, and unless the package itself is corrupt in some way (improper packaging maybe), I would say that you have a bad download.

Is there a way to upload/attach binaries to the forum

No, use an image hosting site.

[laprjns]

It's a commercial cloud service. SpiderOak has pre-built packages, including Slackware packages, on their site. I downloaded the 64bit slackware package, installed it using spkg and was able to start it up without problems. So for you it probably is a bad download.

[jsfarinet]

Correct. I did new download and now it worked. Thanks to you both!