Slackware Trinity Installation Instructions - Revision history

Blu256: Update branch name

2025-05-02T17:36:25Z

Update branch name

2022-04-24T20:27:41Z

Removed duplicate heading, changed header levels

2022-04-24T20:25:58Z

Added note about checking out a development branch other than r14.0.x and master

2022-04-13T12:24:15Z

Undo revision 2168 by Blu256 (talk)

2022-04-01T16:32:36Z

Remove outdated TGW mirror mention

2022-04-01T16:31:06Z

gentdesb mention, unofficial binary packages warning

2021-11-07T21:45:51Z

Binary packages: Added mention of unofficial packages (while we don't have official packaging for Slackware)

2021-07-18T17:20:31Z

Added link to build process demonstration.

2021-07-18T16:24:39Z

2021-07-18T16:23:46Z

Updated Slackware installation instructions (packages are unavailable, commented out dead link, added SlackBuilds mention)

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 === Notes on Ray-V's Slackbuilds ===
-* By default you are presented with the choice between the archive of the last release and either the <tt>r14.0.x</tt> or the <tt>master</tt> development branches. If you want to test out another branch (e.g. as a developer) you can use the environment variable <tt>$FEAT</tt> to set the branch name.
+* By default you are presented with the choice between the archive of the last release and either the <tt>r14.1.x</tt> or the <tt>master</tt> development branches. If you want to test out another branch (e.g. as a developer) you can use the environment variable <tt>$FEAT</tt> to set the branch name.
 == Binary packages ==

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-==Slackware Trinity Repository Installation Instructions==
 [[Category:Documentation]]
 [[Category:Installation]]
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 Even though there is no official packaging of Trinity for Slackware, there are still to unofficial two ways to do so. Installation from binary packages is the easier solution, but installation from SlackBuilds offers a greater degree of control over the installation process.
-===SlackBuilds===
+== SlackBuilds ==
 SlackBuilds are available in the [https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds] repo on GitHub (also mirrored on TGW at [https://git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware]).
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 SlackBuilds for packages not included in Ray-V's repo can be built using an unofficial [https://github.com/blu256/tde-slackbuild-gen special SlackBuild generator], provided by a member of the Trinity team.
-==== Notes on Ray-V's Slackbuilds ====
+=== Notes on Ray-V's Slackbuilds ===
 * By default you are presented with the choice between the archive of the last release and either the <tt>r14.0.x</tt> or the <tt>master</tt> development branches. If you want to test out another branch (e.g. as a developer) you can use the environment variable <tt>$FEAT</tt> to set the branch name.
-===Binary packages===
+== Binary packages ==
 There are no official binary packages for Slackware at this time.

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 SlackBuilds for packages not included in Ray-V's repo can be built using an unofficial [https://github.com/blu256/tde-slackbuild-gen special SlackBuild generator], provided by a member of the Trinity team.
+==== Notes on Ray-V's Slackbuilds ====
+* By default you are presented with the choice between the archive of the last release and either the <tt>r14.0.x</tt> or the <tt>master</tt> development branches. If you want to test out another branch (e.g. as a developer) you can use the environment variable <tt>$FEAT</tt> to set the branch name.
 ===Binary packages===

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 ===SlackBuilds===
-SlackBuilds are available in the [https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds] repo on GitHub.
+SlackBuilds are available in the [https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds] repo on GitHub (also mirrored on TGW at [https://git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware]).
 To build Trinity run the `BUILD-TDE.sh` script and follow the on-screen instructions. An example of the process is available [https://ray-v.github.io/A_typical_TDE_SlackBuild.html here].

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 ===SlackBuilds===
-SlackBuilds are available in the [https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds] repo on GitHub (also mirrored on TGW at [https://git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware]).
+SlackBuilds are available in the [https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds] repo on GitHub.
 To build Trinity run the `BUILD-TDE.sh` script and follow the on-screen instructions. An example of the process is available [https://ray-v.github.io/A_typical_TDE_SlackBuild.html here].

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 ===Binary packages===
-Binary packages for Slackware are not available at this time.
+There are no official binary packages for Slackware at this time.
+Unofficial packaging of TDE is provided by the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/tde-slackware/files tde-slackware] project on SourceForge.
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 ====For Slackware 13.1 (v3.5.13)====
  wget -c -nd -r -l1 --no-parent -A.txz -A.txt http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/slackware/13.1/
--->
-<!-- Additional information, build instructions, and documentation available at:<br>
+Additional information, build instructions, and documentation available at:<br>
 http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/sdeg/trinity_desktop.htm (dead link) -->
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 SlackBuilds are available in the [https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds] repo on GitHub (also mirrored on TGW at [https://git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware]).
-To build Trinity run the `BUILD-TDE.sh` script and follow the on-screen instructions.
+To build Trinity run the `BUILD-TDE.sh` script and follow the on-screen instructions. An example of the process is available [https://ray-v.github.io/A_typical_TDE_SlackBuild.html here].

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