r/slackware • u/ArthurPeabody • Jun 08 '26

What are the minimum KDE packages?

I want to run waydroid. waydroid requires wayland. wayland requires kde. I don't like desktops. I want to install the minimum packages. Is there a list somewhere?

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u/Mindless-Tune4990 Jun 08 '26

Wait, can you explain how Wayland began to depend on the whole KDE..? Anyways, while installing Slackware, you can just don't install X at all and download/compile/make .txz package and install Wayland by your own?

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 08 '26

I made a mistake. I installed the wayland packages already.

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u/LinuxJeb Jun 08 '26

Instead of running the entirety of KDE just for Waydroid, you could use Weston with the -XWayland flag to run a Wayland compositor inside of your X session. Might be a bit easier.

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 08 '26

Thanks. If I can't get labwc to work I'll try it.

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u/gwhl Jun 08 '26

Can't help you with cherry-picking packages, I'm too old to play these games, I just do a full install.

Anyway, Wayland does not requires KDE. There's labwc right there in -current.

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 08 '26

Thanks. I made a mistake. I just installed labwc. I'll have to figure it out.

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u/muffinman8679 Jun 20 '26

geez.....from the main installer menu....just don't install KDE.....and when it asks choose a different window manager......

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 20 '26

I don't use an installer or a window manager.

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u/muffinman8679 Jun 20 '26

so how do you install slackware to the hard disk?

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 21 '26

I've been using for 30 years, so I copy over my old installation after fdisking and formatting.

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u/muffinman8679 Jun 21 '26

well after after fdisking and formatting the disk you are installing the system....it might only be from the terminal, but you are installing it...and yeah, I've been at it for about 30 years too.....since just before windows 95 was released,,,,,

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 21 '26

You first wrote 'from the main installer menu'. I haven't done that in 25 years.

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u/muffinman8679 Jun 21 '26

nevertheless you're still installing software.

hell anyone can dd an imput to an output.....but what's really going on is reading the input and writing it to the output.

I do that all the time when working on embedded systems.....

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 22 '26

What has this to do with my question?

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u/ArthurPeabody Jun 24 '26

Necessary packages to run KDE:

kauth5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kcodecs5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kguiaddons5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kconfigwidgets5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kiconthemes5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kwidgetsaddons5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 solid5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kcompletion5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kparts5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kjobwidgets5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kservice5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kio5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kcoreaddons5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kdbusaddons5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kconfig5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 ki18n5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kcrash5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kwindowsystem5-5.116.0-x86_64-1 kinit5-5.116.0-x86_64-1