Thank you for the responses

Sorry about missing the version I'm running

Distro: Slacko64 Puppy 6.9.9.9
Window Manager: JWM v2.3.2
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

So I can upgrade Firefox to the latest version?

I have had some bad experience with updating items from "Update Notices." which basically left me having to reinstall. What is the general consensus with regards to updating? My main concern is with Firefox as the FF update manager does not see any updates telling me that on the default ch...

Prior to updating to Slack Puppy 6.9.9.9 I wanted test a few other distributions on my Lenovo X61 with 8 MB RAM and a newly installed Samsung EVO 205 MB SSD My analysis was not scientific at all by I tried to spend 2 to 3 days with each distribution and also downloaded the 'lightest' version of each...

Thanks again bigpup

Just finish installing on a Lenovo X61 also upgraded to a Samsung V-NAND SSD 850 EVO, flashed the BIOS using Middleton upgrade to double the SATA speed from 1.5 GBS to 3.0 GBS quick before and after hdparm -tT /dev/sda BEFORE /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 2596 MB in 0.50 seconds = 5229474 kB/...

Thank you all, loading the 6.9.9.9 devx worked

Got it BigPup, makes perfect sense. Thanks

Thank you RufWoof will download and give it a try

Sorry what does devx mean is it a pet i need to install or is it another iso? Seems strange the gcc would be partially installed

I reinstalled libmpc-1.0.3 PPM reported it was already installed. I tried to find libmpc prior and could not. After the install I got further along the compiler now states: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated I'm guessing a path problem export $PATH bash: export: '...

In both instances I have the 64-bit version of Slacko

This is the ISO I used for 6.9.9.9

slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso

Dan

I'm trying to compile a simple hello world c program. I issue the command # gcc hello.c resulting in /user/libexec/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/5.3.0/cc1: error while loading libraries: libmpc.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm running Slacko 6.9.9.9 and also have the ...

I think I determined the problem, the CMOS time was incorrect and the battery must be on it's way out.

As soon as I set the time in the BIOS the time was correct on the desktop.

Will get a battery for my laptop.

Thank you for the responses.

Hi I'm running Slacko Puppy 6.9.6.4 and have the following versions of glibc-zoneinfo-2: 2016g 2016i 2016j 2017a 2017b but when I set my timezone to America/New York it is not set to the correct time. Psync shows America/New York, but the True Offset to UTC states +0000 Any ideas on how to correct? ...

Semme wrote:Five days in.. I gather you're still trying to recover your 632 system?

No I'm not trying to recover, I had a proper back up and a clean 6.9.6.4 install.

At this point just doing some research (learning) along the lines of theru's suggestions.

Semme wrote:So which build are you actually running?

I'm running 6.9.6.4 and switched to 6.3.2 at the Grub menu to check theru suggestions.

Semme wrote:Those errors are on 6964?

The errors are from 6.3.2

theru, I have the symbolic links as you have stated: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 984 Oct 27 16:33 libX11.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 4 21:43 libX11.so -> libX11.so.6.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 4 21:43 libX11.so.6 -> libX11.so.6.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1270576 Oct 27 16:34 libX11.so.6.3.0 -...

Thank you all for your help, but could not get X11 to start and am now running 6.9.6.4 with no issues. Here is what I did: From the command line in my 6.3.2 SFS I uninstalled the previous version of libX11 using "petget -" I then booted in RAM mode and downloaded all of the 14.2 files from...

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