Slackware

The build of CDE on Slackware has only been tested on Slackware 14.0. It may or may not work on other versions. Here are the modifications needed to get CDE built and started.

1.) Generating Additional Locales

cd /usr/lib64/locale/

ln -s de_DE de_DE.ISO-8859-1

ln -s es_ES es_ES.ISO-8859-1

ln -s fr_FR fr_FR.ISO-8859-1

ln -s it_IT it_IT.ISO-8859-1

2.) OpenMotif and Xlt

OpenMotif on Slackbuilds: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/libraries/openmotif/

Xlt on Slackbuilds: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/libraries/xlt/

3.) Nawk

Slackware doesn't have Nawk but it has Gawk. Make a symlink:
ln -s /bin/gawk /bin/nawk

Or patch the CDE source code:
sed -i 's%nawk%gawk%g' cde-source/admin/IntegTools/post_install/linux/configRun

4.) Getting Rpcbind Into Insecure Mode

Running in insecure mode should not be necessary with version of CDE 2.2.4a and newer. (Editor's note: there are no instructions here for running in insecure mode, only for starting rpcbind. A Slackware person should take over this page.)

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc
/etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start

Note: When you first run CDE and try to run an application from the front panel, it may fail with a TT error. Log out and log back in and it will run without errors.

[Roger Brown]

I found I needed the following packages to build

slackpkg install subversion git serf apr-util sqlite  g++ gcc icu4c cyrus-sasl apr ca-certificates openssl perl dcron make guile gc libffi libmpc glibc motif kernel-headers bc libXt libX11 xproto libSM libICE printproto libXau curl bison m4 ksh93 libXdmcp libXinerama libtirpc libXext libxcb libjpeg xbitmaps libXmu libXp libXft libXrender harfbuzz fontconfig libXScrnSaver scrnsaverproto libXfont libfontenc ncompress mkfontdir mkfontscale fontsproto tcl libXaw flex autoconf automake libtool utempter bdftopcf patch rpcbind xset xsetroot freetype xextproto libunistring binutils

But even that is not a sufficient set to run the X server itself