Monthly Archives: June 2010

Setup nVidia drivers on Slackware 13

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Download lastest driver version (190.53 as of this writing): wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/190.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run run it: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run Accept the license, otherwise you can’t install the driver 🙂

Setting up Slackware 13 (64-bit) (part 3)

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Make your server trust your laptop+user: #su – “your username here” $ssh-keygen -t rsa $scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub “remote_username”@”host_name”:”target_filepath_for_key_on_the_server” Now ssh into your server: $ssh “remote_user”@”host_name” $cd ~/.ssh Insert your laptop’s public key in the authorized keys list: $cat “target_filepath_for_key_on_the_server” >> authorized_keys Try ssh-ing your server again (this time you should not… Continue reading →

Setting up Slackware 13 (64-bit) (part 2)

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Create yourself a user: #adduser “desired_name” Allow yourself to sudo make a sandwich: #nano /etc/sudoers make sure you add the following updates: %users          ALL=(ALL)       ALL (In case you decided to create your user on a different group, change the line above acordingly) Install Gnome SlackBuild #echo “SOURCE=http://get.gnomeslackbuild.org/gsb/gsb64-2.26_slackware64-13.0/:CUSTOM” >> /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc #slapt-get… Continue reading →

Setting up Slackware 13 (64-bit) (part 1)

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Download new kernel from http://kernel.org # cd /usr/src #tar -xvjf <kernel_file_name>.tar.bz2 #rm linux #ln -s <new_kernel_folder> linux #cd linux #make mrproper #make menuconfig (have fun 🙂 ) #make #make install #reboot && cross your fingers Install Slapt-Get # wget http://software.jaos.org/slackpacks/13.0-x86_64/slapt-get/slapt-get-0.10.2d-x86_64-1.tgz #installpkg slapt-get-0.10.2d-x86_64-1.tgz #nano /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc #slapt-get –update #slapt-get –upgrade