Slackware64

64 bit version of Slackware

Installation of Slackware64 14.0 in VirtualBox

Physical machine: HP EliteBook 8470p core i5

Virtual machine:

• Memory 4GB
• Disc 64 GB
• Video memory 128 MB
• Settings
  • System
    • Processor

      • Enable PAE/NX:true

      • Nr Processors: 2
    • Acceleration
      • Enable VT-x/AMD-V: true
      • Enable nested paging: true
  • General
    • Advanced
      • Mini-Toolbar: disabled # Ctrl+F

Steps:

• Boot from DVD ISO of Slackware64
• Choose keyboard pt-latin1
• Login with root
• cfdisk
• new, primary, size 64719
• new, primary, size 4002.97
• Set sda1 as bootable
• type sda1, 83, Linux
• type sda1, 82, Linux swap
• write, yes, quit
• setup, addswap, sda2
• check bad blocks? no
• select sda1, format quick, ext4 filesystem
• Install from CD or DVD, auto, /dev/sr0
• All packages, full
• skip USB bootstick
• Simple LILO, frame buffer 1024x768x64K
• UTF-8 console? yes
• MBR LILO destination
• Mouse imps2
• Gpm? No
• Network? no
• Services, rc.fuse, rc.inetd, rc.messagebus, rc.syslog, rc.sshd
• Custom screen fonts? no
• Hardware clock set to UTC
• Timezone: Europe/Lisbon
• xinitrc.wmaker
• Root pass? yes
• Reboot
• In Virtualbox export the virtual machine as a OVA file

Portuguese console keyboard

Create the file /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap:

# Load the keyboard map.  More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.
if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then
 /usr/bin/loadkeys pt-latin1.map
fi

Enable login by KDM

Edit the file /etc/inittab and change the initlevel from 3 to 4

id:4:initdefault

Edit the file /etc/kde/kdm/Xsetup and add the line

setxkbmap pt

Change VESA frame buffer resolution to 1280x960

Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf

vga = 844

Run lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf to update LILO config on the MBR.

xterm with Zenburn look and font size 14

Create file ~/.Xresources:

xterm*foreground: rgb:F6/F3/E8
xterm*background: rgb:40/40/40
xterm*font: *-fixed-*-*-*-14-*

Reload the definitions with xrdb ~/.Xresources

X configuration for 1280x960

DontZap as true disables the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Hard reset X).

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
    Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "VESA Framebuffer"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
   DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "true"
EndSection

Enable network DHCP client eth0

Edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

VirtualBox port forward

• Network
• NAT
• Port forwarding
  • Rule1
  • TCP
  • Host port 2222
  • Guest port 22

Java installation

• Get from Oracle jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin
• mv jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin /usr/java
• ./jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin # run it
• Change /etc/profile

   1 export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_39" 
   2 PATH="(...):JAVA_HOME/bin"

Get also http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u60-b19/jdk-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz

• cp jdk-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/java
• cd /usr/java
• tar xvzf jdk-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz

Tomcat installation

• mkdir -p /usr/local/tomcat

• wget http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.54/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.54.tar.gz

• tar xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.54.tar.gz
• useradd tomcat
• chown tomcat * -R
• chgrp users * -R

Edit /usr/local/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml

   1   <role rolename="admin"/>
   2   <role rolename="manager"/>
   3   <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
   4   <user username="admin" password="12345678" roles="admin,manager,manager-gui"/>

Start and stop tomcat with user tomcat:

• /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
• /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

JBoss 5.1.0

• adduser jboss # pass 12345678
• cd /usr/local/
• unzip jboss-5.1.0.GA.zip #
• ln -s jboss-5.1.0.GA jboss
• cp jboss_init_redhat.sh /etc/init.d
• mv /etc/init.d/jboss_init_redhat.sh /etc/init.d/jboss
• ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_39 /usr/local/jdk
• chmod 755 /etc/init.d/jboss
• cd /usr/local/jboss
• chown jboss * -R
• chgrp users * -R
• /etc/init.d/jboss start # as root, JBoss should run in jboss user context
• /etc/init.d/jboss stop # as root, JBoss should run in jboss user context

Default runlevels (2 3 4 5):

• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc2.d/S99jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc2.d/K10jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc3.d/S99jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc3.d/K10jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc4.d/S99jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc4.d/K10jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc5.d/S99jboss
• ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc5.d/K10jboss

In the file /etc/init.d/jboss change JBOSS_CONF from default to all

Glassfish 4.0

• mkdir -p /opt/appsrv

• wget http://download.java.net/glassfish/4.0/release/glassfish-4.0.zip

• unzip glassfish-4.0.zip
• cd glassfish-4.0
• chown vitor *- R
• chgrp users *- R
• nano bin/asadmin

   1 AS_INSTALL=`dirname "$0"`/../glassfish
   2 AS_INSTALL_LIB="$AS_INSTALL/lib"
   3 . "${AS_INSTALL}/config/asenv.conf"
   4 AS_JAVA=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_60
   5 JAVA_HOME==/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_60
   6 #Depends upon Java from ../config/asenv.conf
   7 if [ ${AS_JAVA} ]; then
   8     JAVA=${AS_JAVA}/bin/java
   9 fi
  10 
  11 exec "$JAVA" -jar "$AS_INSTALL_LIB/client/appserver-cli.jar" "$@"

• bin/asadmin start-domain # if first time set the admin pass

• Access http://localhost:4848

Mysql

• chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld
• mysql_install_db --user=mysql
• chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql
• /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start
• mysql_secure_installation
• set root password: Y
• Remove anonymous users: Y
• Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
• Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
• Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
• mysql -p
• show databases;
• exit

Bash settings

File ~/.bashrc

   1 alias ls='ls --color'
   2 #PS1="\D{%Y-%m-%d}T\A \u@\H:\w \r\n\$"
   3 #PS1="\e[0;33m\]\D{%Y-%m-%d}T\A\[\e[m\]\r\n\e[0;32m\]\u@\H:\w\$\[\e[m\] "
   4 PS1="\e[0;33m\]\D{%Y-%m-%d}T\A\[\e[m\] \e[0;32m\]\u@\H:\w\r\n\$\[\e[m\] "
   5 
   6 export PATH="/home/vitor/narwhal/bin:$PATH"

VirtualBox guest additions

• Insert guest additions CD image
• mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
• cd /mnt/cdrom
• ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Avoids mouse jumping around on X.

Also when using the guest VM, press Ctrl+I to disable mouse integration, to avoid mouse jumping around.

Apache Maven installation

• cd /usr/local

• wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz

• tar xvzf apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz
• ln -s apache-maven-3.2.1-bin maven
• Add /usr/local/maven/bin to PATH on /etc/profile or ~./bashrc

Change display to 1600x900x32

Run VBoxManage in the host

• VBoxManage setextradata "Slack64v14" "CustomVideoMode1" "1600x900x32"

Change /etc/lilo.conf

• vga=864

Change /etc/X11/xorg.org to have "1600x900" in the several modes.

• Modes "1600x900" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

Netbeans 7.4

Netbeans

Squirrel

Squirrel

Thunderbird

Move the local folder to ~/ThunderbirdMail.

vi

vim Zenburn

Emacs

Emacs Zenburn

Multilib 32-bit

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

As root:

• lftp -c 'open http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ ; mirror -c -e 14.1'

• cd 14.1
• upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new *.t?z
• upgradepkg --install-new slackware64-compat32/*-compat32/*.t?z

Reboot

Skype installation

• wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2

• mkdir /usr/local/skype
• cp skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2 /usr/local/skype/
• cd /usr/local/skype/
• tar xvif skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
• cd /usr/local/skype/skype-4.3.0.37
• mv * ../
• cd ..
• rmdir skype-4.3.0.37
• chmod 755 skype
• I agree

Apply portuguese keyboard on connecting a keyboard

Sometimes a USB keyboard can disconnect and connect on it's own, and loose the settings. Check the file to see if the settings are applied /var/log/Xorg.0.log

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier         "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard        "yes"
    #MatchProduct       "keyboard"
    Option  "XkbLayout"  "pt"
EndSection

Lenovo Thinkpad L440 Core i5

Init with runlevel 1

Linux init=/bin/bash root=/dev/sda1 rw

Changes in display

Run VBoxManage in the host

• VBoxManage setextradata "Slack64v14" "CustomVideoMode1" "1366x768x32"

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection

    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
    Driver      "vboxvideo"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "VESA Framebuffer"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"

   DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes  "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes  "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes  "1366x768"  "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes  "1366x768"  "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "true"
EndSection