If you’re having a problem as a ‘regular’ Slackware user burning an ISO file to a blank DVD, this may resolve your issue:

# chown root:cdrom /usr/bin/cdrecord /usr/bin/cdrdao # chmod 4750 /usr/bin/cdrecord /usr/bin/cdrdao

Following directions from: lxc for Slackware 14.2. I haven’t tested on Slackware 15 yet. You will have to set this up while running as root.

1. Create the file '/etc/default/lxc-net' and add the line USE_LXC_BRIDGE="true" to it.

2. Create the directory '/var/lib/misc'

3. Start the service: # /usr/libexec/lxc/lxc-net start

4. Create a config file:

# cat >slac-xlc.con «“EOF” lxc.network.type = veth lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = lxcbr0 EOF

I have been running blackbox on my Slackware desktop and decided that I’d try a different ‘flavor’ called openbox which are in the SBo repositories. I started by executing sbopkg at the root prompt and found these packages available:

There is the primary openbox package and there are 4 optional packages listed:

• openbox
• libfm-extra
• lxmenu-data
• menu-cache
• openbox-menu

And several theme packages:

• arc-openbox
• openbox-simple-theme

The openbox-menu and openbox-simple-theme downloads failed but I was able to get away with using obconf and obmenu tools.

It doesn’t happen often, but whenever there’s a new kernel package for Slackware on my laptop I need to update the Broadcom driver. To do this:

1. Update your OS, as usual.
2. Reboot
3. Plug in the ethernet cable, if necessary
4. Login as root
5. Perform sbopkg -i broadcom-sta
6. Done

You can read more about it on the Slackware wiki here

I don’t know about you, but I love reading ebooks and I’ve used Foliate before on other distributions but can’t find it for my OS of choice, Slackware. So, here’s how to install it from source:

1. Download the foliate software tarball from here
2. Install appstream-glib (which provides dependency appstream-util) using sboinstall
3. Install webkit2gtk (which provides dependency WebKit2) using sboinstall
4. Build foliate. Instructions are on the GitHub page or just extract the tarball, cd into the directory and then execute the following on the command line:

$ tar zxvf foliate-2.6.4.tar.gz $ cd foliate-2.6.4 $ meson build –prefix=/usr $ ninja -c build $ ninja -C build $ su -c “ninja -C build install”