slapt-get help

[Blaze]

I have 384mb of ram, not 32..

Same here. :)

[Ergot]

400MHz 32MB ram is perfectly acceptable for Linux (not for KDE, but for WMaker and stuff). Its only windows that requires more.

Of course it's perfectly acceptable.  Actually, I have a machine in our MDF running XP that I use every day that has a 350 MHz processor with 64 MB RAM.  It's slow, but it would be slow on Linux too.

Secondly, I wouldn't want to have that as a workstation.  Mainly because you're not going to have much luck with X at all and I would require that I had some graphical interface to use since it drastically simplifies things.  I wouldn't want to use it as a server either, since it sucks so much.  So basically, the PC sucks and he should get a new one.

My point remains solid.

Depends Sidoh. That's the great thing about Linux, it's choice. A lightweight WM would not be slow. However, your computer will blow up on KDE.

[Sidoh]

Depends Sidoh. That's the great thing about Linux, it's choice. A lightweight WM would not be slow. However, your computer will blow up on KDE.

It would still suck, especially for the things I use it for.

[Ergot]

Depends Sidoh. That's the great thing about Linux, it's choice. A lightweight WM would not be slow. However, your computer will blow up on KDE.

It would still suck, especially for the things I use it for.

Do you use it to power your USB penis pump?

[Sidoh]

Do you use it to power your USB penis pump?

USB dildo, actually.  That and my USB ergot's-mom-clit-blaster.  They take a lot of resources. :(

[iago]

iago helped me set up slapt-get the other day, and I needed to get Gnome from it so I typed:
"slapt-get --show Gnome"
and nothing came up.  I tried varying capital letters and stuff in Gnome too, and it didn't work.  I'm currently using XFCE because KDE owns my beast of a PC (400MHz, 384mb RAM, 2mb video card) and I want to see why people seem to like Gnome as much as they do..
How do I get Gnome?

Wow, yuck.  Get a new PC.

Anyway, I wasn't aware that you'd use slapt-get to update individual packages.  Personally, I'd just download the Gnome packages using wget and install them manually.  I just use SSH on my server though, so I don't have too much experience setting up/using X.

There's nothing wrong with that computer. 

XFCE is similar to Gnome, except lighter. 

Try using --search.  --show only works if you have the name exactly right, but it's probably not called just gnome.  And BTW, make sure you've run --update and are pointed at some mirrors. 

UPDATE (not edit): I tried --search, and I don't actually see it.  I know Slackware was going to stop supporting it, so maybe it got lost in time on the various servers.  It sucks anyway, XFCE is much better, and similar looking.

[Ergot]

They already stopped supporting it... check the 10.2 packages.  XFCE is alright... but if you really want Gnome, get Dropline or Freerock.

[deadly7]

iago helped me set up slapt-get the other day, and I needed to get Gnome from it so I typed:
"slapt-get --show Gnome"
and nothing came up.  I tried varying capital letters and stuff in Gnome too, and it didn't work.  I'm currently using XFCE because KDE owns my beast of a PC (400MHz, 384mb RAM, 2mb video card) and I want to see why people seem to like Gnome as much as they do..
How do I get Gnome?

Wow, yuck.  Get a new PC.

Anyway, I wasn't aware that you'd use slapt-get to update individual packages.  Personally, I'd just download the Gnome packages using wget and install them manually.  I just use SSH on my server though, so I don't have too much experience setting up/using X.

There's nothing wrong with that computer. 

XFCE is similar to Gnome, except lighter. 

Try using --search.  --show only works if you have the name exactly right, but it's probably not called just gnome.  And BTW, make sure you've run --update and are pointed at some mirrors. 

UPDATE (not edit): I tried --search, and I don't actually see it.  I know Slackware was going to stop supporting it, so maybe it got lost in time on the various servers.  It sucks anyway, XFCE is much better, and similar looking.

What else would they call it if not gnome?
"desktopmanagergnomedownloadhere"? :P

[iago]

iago helped me set up slapt-get the other day, and I needed to get Gnome from it so I typed:
"slapt-get --show Gnome"
and nothing came up.  I tried varying capital letters and stuff in Gnome too, and it didn't work.  I'm currently using XFCE because KDE owns my beast of a PC (400MHz, 384mb RAM, 2mb video card) and I want to see why people seem to like Gnome as much as they do..
How do I get Gnome?

Wow, yuck.  Get a new PC.

Anyway, I wasn't aware that you'd use slapt-get to update individual packages.  Personally, I'd just download the Gnome packages using wget and install them manually.  I just use SSH on my server though, so I don't have too much experience setting up/using X.

There's nothing wrong with that computer. 

XFCE is similar to Gnome, except lighter. 

Try using --search.  --show only works if you have the name exactly right, but it's probably not called just gnome.  And BTW, make sure you've run --update and are pointed at some mirrors. 

UPDATE (not edit): I tried --search, and I don't actually see it.  I know Slackware was going to stop supporting it, so maybe it got lost in time on the various servers.  It sucks anyway, XFCE is much better, and similar looking.

What else would they call it if not gnome?
"desktopmanagergnomedownloadhere"? :P

They might call it gnome-desktop, gnome-manager, gnome-2, or who knows what else?  KDE is distributed as kdebase, kdeextras and several other packages.

[Sidoh]

There's nothing wrong with that computer. 

Maybe not for the things you do... :P

[iago]

There's nothing wrong with that computer. 

Maybe not for the things you do... :P

For example, anything that's not Windows :P

If you want a Linux install to test and play with stuff, you don't need a high end box

[deadly7]

There's nothing wrong with that computer. 

Maybe not for the things you do... :P

<sarcasm>
I'm sorry, viewing high-res porn is for my other computer.
</sarcasm>
iago, gnomey no work, time to download from remote link not supported by slaptget