problems installing anything in slack

[mis]

I have d/l freeamp, xmms, imwheel, gnucash and I can't get a one of them to work. I realize that coming froma RPM based distro is causing some of the problems and I just need to learn but gracious.

I got them all in either .tgx or .tar.gz format. I use installpkg for the .tar.gz ones. It says installing blah blah then it comes back to the command prompt. Do I still need to do ./configure, make, make install? I did try it and still nothing but I did get a error (at least on freeamp) I crashs on the make at the point of doing something with bootstrap. But the ./configure gives no errors.

When I do the pkgtool install there are no errors until I try to run it then it is missing all kinds of stuff. How can I have it tell me what I am missing and NOT install till have get that resolved.

I am not going to back to the RPM thing, way to flakey. I just need to figure out what I am missing. Thanks for any help.

Mis

[jscott]

If you are using the source *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) then pkgtool is only installing the source -- You will have to compile to applications yourself. See the README or INSTALL to get the locations and commands for the build. Ensure you are getting the binary packages and that you have any lib/module dependencies taken care of before install. pkgtool will let you install binaries that have unsatified dependencies, without complaining one bit.

[mis]

Ok how about this. If I install Drake and everything works as far as sound and things like that, would it be the same thing for slack? Meaning if I install Drake and make note of the modules and io and irq stuff should it be the same as when slack installs? If so, I am thinking maybe dual install of drake and slack (hell maybe even debian) and then I would know exactly what to use for settings since I can get it all working in drake but just don't like it. If I can do this how do I tell LILO to boot multiple distros? I use ME and slack now but only Dos and LInux options.

Mis

[mangeli]

Originally posted by jscott:
If you are using the source *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) then pkgtool is only installing the source -- You will have to compile to applications yourself. See the README or INSTALL to get the locations and commands for the build. Ensure you are getting the binary packages and that you have any lib/module dependencies taken care of before install. pkgtool will let you install binaries that have unsatified dependencies, without complaining one bit.

That isn't totally true.

If you downloaded the slackpacks for the software you mentioned from http://www.linuxmafia.org then you should be able to type installpkg freeamp.tgz

It'll install freeamp and then you just type freeamp at the cli to run it.

[mis]

Originally posted by mangeli:
That isn't totally true.

If you downloaded the slackpacks for the software you mentioned from http://www.linuxmafia.org then you should be able to type installpkg freeamp.tgz

It'll install freeamp and then you just type freeamp at the cli to run it.

That is where I got it from, but it was a .tar.gz format. Is it the same?

[TheGimp]

Slackware packages come in tgz format.
Occassionally you will come across source/archived files in tgz format which can be confusing :(