Re: firefox onto zipslack

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:00:32 -0500, Buzzard wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:
>
> zipslack is a minimal setup, with a goal to install into 100M. Are you
> sure you don't want Slax, or similar?
>

My immediate goal is just to get some minimal
linux stuff going on my pc and learn what I can
about the system. Also, I want to go online
from linux, and that text-based "links" browser
leaves much to be desired.

I might try Slax if i can't get zipslack to do
the things i want it to.

I eventually downloaded three packages that
firefox wanted, only to have it declare a
segmentation fault when it finally started.

(firefox-bin:1320): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get():
length value has wrapped in calculation
(did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 159:
1320 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Running ldd on firefox-bin produced a list of about
40 libraries, most of which i had already dnlded, and
about 10 I don't have yet. But (correct me if im wrong)
the error sounds like some kind of incompatibility...

A quick search of googlegroups turned up loads of
people cursing firefox, and I think I'll be
trying out some others. Any you recommend?

If you stick with zipslack, make sure you have the latest version. The
goals of zipslack and Slax are different, but if you only want an
introduction, then I'd go with Slax over zipslack.

The library problems you are having can be caused from a
missing library or an incompatibility (that is, a later version
is required.) It's been a while since I tried zipslack, but updating all
libraries to -current may be a bit of a challenge.

Slax is a live CD. It's performance suffers slightly because files
are read from the CD, not a magnetic disc. Also, Slax is a Slackware
derivative, not Slackware proper.

My first recommendation is that you should install Slackware (official),
version 10.2 or -current. I don't think it has the partition resizing
tools which are included with other distros, but it would be worth some
extra work, IMO.

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Douglas Mayne
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