GNOME SlackBuild Binary Distribution
This is our binary GNOME distribution for Slackware Linux. It encompasses all needed packages for a fully configurable, customisable and usable GNOME desktop environment for Slackware. We aim to provide a fully functional desktop, and so GNOME SlackBuild comes with a wide variety of applications in order to create a full desktop environment for any user. We have created a short list of featured applications, covering areas such as document management, office software, multimedia, graphic design, and software development.If you haven’t yet, you should read about the GSB project before installing GSB.
You can find all the details on our home page: http://gnomeslackbuild.org/about/
The most current available version of the GSB binary distribution is 2.20.3.
Downloading and Installing
Downloading, installing, and keeping GNOME up-to-date is easy with GNOME SlackBuild. We have extensive instructions on how to download and install GNOME SlackBuild, a list of our mirrors, and on how to keep your GSB installation up-to-date.
You can find all this on our home page: http://gnomeslackbuild.org/download/
We have a separate page for some configuration options for GNOME SlackBuild. It is meant to be a small reference page for users new to GNOME, or to GNOME SlackBuild. It highlights some of the most useful configuration settings that many users will want to, and even need to configure, in order to get the most out of their GNOME SlackBuild desktop. Please make sure to use this configuration page in order to properly set up USB devices, the GNOME Display Manager, or NetworkManager. You can find our configuration page at: http://gnomeslackbuild.org/configure/
Filing Bug Reports, or Requesting Features
While the -current release can be considered more or less stable, there are a still few small issues known with the current version of the binary release of GNOME SlackBuild which still need fixing before we can properly term this a stable release. If you find any bugs in GNOME SlackBuild, please help us out by reporting them. You can find a full list of known issues, or report any new issues, by visiting our Issues page. We are always around on IRC, although sometimes we’re not prompt to respond (we may be away from the keyboard), but we’re always checking the mailing lists, so if you’re have any troubles, please let us know and we’ll do our best to help out. :)
Known Issues and Solutions
Below is a list of some know problems, or possible “gotchas” that have cropped up with GSB, and possible solutions or workarounds.
Gnome-system-tools fails to run or seems broken
Problem
Liboobs-WARNING: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: The name org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends was not provided by any .service files.
Solution
This means that the s-t-b daemon isn’t running. You’ll need to chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.stb (to sure s-t-b starts at boot time). Then either restart the computer, or else run:
. /etc/rc.d/rc.stb start
This will start the daemon and provide the dbus service files. We were hoping to avoid this problem. System-tools-backends is largely broken on Slackware, and will remain so until Slackware updates to dbus 1.1 or greater. The “system-tools” user-admin, and time-admin, should generally be avoided, as Slackware provides (non-GUI) tools for these, as timeconfig. I believe Dropline had it removed entirely from their recent release. Some utilities do work, however, and so we have included s-t-b. In order to use these with regular users + s-t-b backend, you’ll need to add the username to the “stbadmin” group. Otherwise, simply use gksu as provided.
Broken or Missing SVG Icons
Problem
SVG icons don’t seem to appear. For example, none of the icons in CCSM (the compiz settings manager) appear, or graphic programs like EOG can’t display SVG files. You get the broken image picture instead.
Solution
There is a problem with the gtk plugin cache. You will need to make sure that libgsf is installed first. Then you can either reinstall the gtk+2 package, (e.g., `slapt-get—install gtk+2 —reinstall`) or run manually (as root):
mkdir -p /etc/gtk-2.0
/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders;
It should finish without any errors. You may also wish to verify that the svg gtk plugin loader is found in /usr/lib/gtk-2.12/loaders/.
Deluge internal browser crashes
- This problem is fixed in Deluge 0.5.8.1 *
Problem
When you try to use the “Home Page” link in deluge, or anything else that opens the internal anonymizing browser, deluge crashes.
Solution
The best solution is not to use the internal browser. You can disable it in the “Other” tab within the “Preferences” page in Deluge. The other option is to set:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/lib/firefox*
And then run deluge from the command line. There still seems to be a bug in Deluge 0.5.8 which prevents users from using the internal browser (an error with proxy settings). This bug has been filed in the Deluge Trac http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/655