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- | ===== Sanitizing an Existing Installation ===== | ||
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- | We assume that the user performed the full install. | ||
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- | - Blacklist the offending Slackware packages in ''/ | ||
- | kernel-firmware | ||
- | kernel-generic | ||
- | kernel-huge | ||
- | kernel-modules | ||
- | kernel-source | ||
- | kernel-headers | ||
- | getty-ps | ||
- | lha | ||
- | unarj | ||
- | amp | ||
- | bluez-firmware | ||
- | ipw2100-fw | ||
- | ipw2200-fw | ||
- | trn | ||
- | zd1211-firmware | ||
- | xfractint | ||
- | xgames | ||
- | xv</ | ||
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- | - Build and install a free kernel. Also, install the free headers if you want to compile stuff that makes system calls. The headers are expected in / | ||
- | - At this point you should be running the free kernel, so you can remove the non-free Slackware packages with:< | ||
- | removepkg kernel-firmware kernel-generic kernel-huge \ | ||
- | kernel-modules kernel-source kernel-headers getty-ps lha unarj \ | ||
- | amp bluez-firmware ipw2100-fw ipw2200-fw trn zd1211-firmware \ | ||
- | xfractint xgames xv</ | ||
- | - Optionally, you can replace some of the removed packages with free packages. lha can be replaced with lhasa, a free decompressor. unarj can be replaced with arj, which is actually an archiver too. | ||
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- | ===== Upgrading ===== | ||
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- | We haven' | ||
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- | ===== Caveats ===== | ||
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- | Please be aware that as long as you keep using the official repository, non-free packages may still creep in during updates, unlikely as it is. We see no easy cure for this, short of switching to a free repository. | ||
===== Methodology ===== | ===== Methodology ===== |
slackware_14.1.txt · Last modified: 2018/04/09 16:51 by connie