A word of warning before we get started with Dropline. If you've been following along with my guide so far, you already have Gnome available to you. Without doing anything, you will already be at Gnome 2.4. You can safely skip this section and move on to the next. SWareT, which I discuss in the next section, will even do a decent job of getting you upgraded to Gnome 2.6. Dropline is gonna make some BIG changes to your system. If you are new to Slackware, you are probably not going to be able to remove Dropline without some major hacking. That said, I really like Dropline and always install it. Anyways, on with the guide.
Install Dropline Gnome. Go here . Download the installer. Myself, I like to shut down X and go to the command line to install this. Use the command:
installpkg dropline-installer.tgz
after that, type:
dropline-installer
and go through the entire install process. Go for full.
One thing to note. I have purposely done all of my configuration to the xf86config file before I install Dropline. This is important because Dropline is going to remove xfree86 and replace it with the xorg X server. When it does that, it's going to use your xf86config file to set up it's configuration file, /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I don't want to do some configuring on one file, then have to go do some more configuring on another if it can be avoided. That's why I get all my X configuring out of the way before installing Dropline.
Since we are talking about Dropline, this is a great spot to show you a package I found from a member on the Dropline forums. This package is great. It's a codecs package to make a bunch of movie types work in Linux. Save the package, go to a command line, and change to the directory you downloaded the package to. Now type:
installpkg codecs-0.2-noarch-1xs.tgz
You should be able to view a whole bunch of different types of movie files now. Check out some of the guys other packages while your there.