Table of Contents
Salix Start-Up Guide
About this manual
1. Salix at a Glance
1.0.1. Salix Features
1.0.2. Salix Editions
1.0.3. Installation Modes
1.0.4. Salix Repositories & Package Management
2. Starting Up Salix
2.1. Introduction
2.1.1. Downloading Salix
2.1.2. Booting from a Salix Installation medium
2.2. Installing Salix
2.2.1. Before starting
2.2.2. Partition Management
2.2.3. Installing from a Salix Installation CD
2.2.4. Installing from a Salix Installation USB
2.2.5. Partition management with cfdisk
3. Your Salix
3.1. Package Management
3.1.1. Gslapt
3.1.2. Sourcery
3.2. Package management from the command line
3.2.1. Salix Package Installer
3.2.2. slapt-get
3.2.3. slapt-src
3.2.4. spkg
3.2.5. Making a Package from a Source File with SLKBUILD
3.2.6. Upgrading Salix to a Newer Version
3.3. Configuring Your Salix
3.3.1. Setting up an internet connection
3.3.2. Setting up a Printer
3.3.3. Salix Codecs Installer
3.4. Salix Tools
3.4.1. What are the Salix Tools?
3.4.2. ALSA Sound Card
3.4.3. Rebuild Icon Cache
3.4.4. Hostnames
3.4.5. Dotnew
3.4.6. Keyboard Layout
3.4.7. Lilosetup
3.4.8. System Services
3.4.9. System Language
3.4.10. System Clock
3.4.11. User Profiles
3.4.12. Salix-Update-Notifier
3.4.13. reposetup
4. Salix Mini Walkthroughs
4.1. Working with the Command Line Interface
4.1.1. Moving Around - cd
4.1.2. Creating a Folder - mkdir
4.1.3. Copying & Moving & Removing a File - cp & mv & rm
4.1.4. Copying & Moving & Removing a Folder - cp & mv & rm
4.1.5. Installing a Program - spi
4.2. Getting started with Salix Ratpoison
4.2.1. Overview
4.2.2. Starting Ratpoison and running applications
4.2.3. Vimprobable browsing
4.2.4. Window management
4.2.5. The console and package management
4.2.6. Editing the configuration file
4.2.7. Using workspaces
4.2.8. Adding an item to the menu
4.2.9. Summary
5. Support
6. Appendix
List of Applications
Selected Applications found in Salix
