slackware

Make git-svn work on Slackware 12.1

It is obviosly some Perl extensions. Perl version is 5.8.8. I found Error.pm, but now I'm looking for Core.pm. While we're at it: how do you guys search for those modules. I tried Google, but that didn't help much. Thanks. ...

Which Eclipse version to install on Linux for PHP development

I have Slackware 12.1 and wish to try out Eclipse for PHP/HTML/JavaScript development. However, it seems I'm facing myriad of possible options and I'd hate to miss the best thing and give up on Eclipse (I'm currently using Geany, but I'm missing some stuff like , for example, auto-complete for JavaScript) I'm currently looking into just...

Java's 'tnameserv' takes 3+ minutes to be "Ready", why?

I'm trying to help a dev of an app I'd like to use trouble shoot a problem utilizing Corba Server on Linux. I narrowed down the problem to tnameserv taking over 3 minutes to become ready after invocation. What exactly is tnameserv trying to do in those 3 minutes and is there anyway I can speed it up? The app failed because it tried ...

gdb - "thread apply all bt full" gives blank

I was trying to debug a multi-threaded process on a Linux server running Slackware 12 using gdb 6.6 Once I attach and issue the command "thread apply all bt full" it comes back with nothing ( back on to the gdb prompt ). Any idea why this happens? ...

Would dropping X altogether hurt ?

Hi, I live in the linux terminal all the time under my slackware GNU/linux system (an EeePC). By default, GNU Emacs won't start if It can't find several Xorg libraries. Assuming I will never use X software at all, would it make sense for me to drop all this Xorg stuff and compile emacs again ? Are you aware of anything that could get m...