Development

Recommendations

Building GNOME (or other packages) from source requires a clean and stable environment. Each release of the buildsystem will be tested on a fresh and fully patched install of Slackware Linux and BlueWhite64. Any 3rd party package may cause conflicts and can break building packages.

Browse the code

You can browse the mercurial repository here or the bazaar repository on LaunchPad here.

Build from Mercurial

The obligatory warning:
It is recommended to run the buildsystem as user root since it has to install packages automatically. Building KDE, LXDE, e17 or any other packages from the mercurial repository is only recommended for testing since it might include unsolved dependencies. If you are not intrested in development/testing please consider downloading a stable release from here.

The latest code is now available from the Mercurial repository on SourceForge. If you want to build latest SlackBot development release from source you can do a checkout as user root:

su
Enter root's Password: ********
cd /var/tmp
hg clone hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/slackbot/mercurial slackbot
cd slackbot
sh SETUP.sh

Build/install a release candidate

Available release candidates or stable releases can be found here. To download a release candidate or a stable release from svn use:

su
Enter root's Password: ********
cd /var/tmp
svn co http://slackbot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/slackbot/tags/slackbot-0.9.6rc1 slackbot
cd slackbot
sh SETUP.sh