Archive for August, 2010
KDM/KDE on Slackware64 13.1
by BenV on Aug.29, 2010, under Software
Actually, it’s slackware64-current, but it’s pretty much the same for today’s issue.
Don’t ask me why, but for some reason my girlfriend wanted to start KDM/KDE.
(probably because enlightenment now completely abandoned their piece of garbage login manager ‘entranced’).
So she ran a ton of updates – “slackpkg update ; slackpkg upgrade-all” and rebooted.
KDM came up fine. Then she tried to login and was greeted by:
Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
After clicking this away KDE started to load but stopped shortly after that and KDM was greeting her again. (continue reading…)
Blast! It’s Boost! (Slackware64 and Deluge / libtorrent-rasterbar)
by BenV on Aug.29, 2010, under Software
Obviously I didn’t mention this issue enough yet since google didn’t return my blog for this issue as well as I’d like.
Today’s task with a problem: upgrading to Deluge 1.3.0-rc2 from rc1. Just for reference, I ran into this problem before. Since we’re upgrading Deluge, I’m upgrading the torrent library first. The latest version seems to be libtorrent-rasterbar version 0.15.2.
The problem:
benv@machine:~/libtorrent-rasterbar-0.15.2$ ./configure --prefix=/usr # And some more options, but nothing with boost
# Some configure junk and then:
Checking for boost libraries:
checking for boostlib >= 1.36... yes
checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
configure: error: Boost.System library not found. Try using --with-boost-system=lib
… don’t you just hate it when your computer hints you to try something trivial? (continue reading…)