====== Slackware Installation ======
//Notes//
This page applies to Splashy 0.3.6 and older. Real Life issues have kept me from refreshing it to apply to 0.3.8. I have a mental flowchart for a helper script that you can call from the initrd's init that will guestimate the progress bar, and if anyone wants to discuss it, they can contact me on splashy-devel. -mwalling
===== Compiling Dependencies =====
==== glib2 ====
Slackware includes glib2 in the l/ diskset, but Splashy needs the static libraries, along with the shared libraries. To do this, you need to grab the contents of ''source/l/glib2/'' from your favorite [[http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-12.0/source/l/glib2/|mirror]]. Next you need to add ''--enable-static'' to your ''./configure'' section and increment ''BUILD''. Now build the package with <code># ./glib2.SlackBuild</code>
This package can now be installed with <code># upgradepkg /tmp/glib2-2.12.12-i486-2.tgz</code>
==== freetype ====
Like glib2, freetype is included in Slackware, but needs to be rebuilt to include the static libraries. You need the files from [[http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-12.0/source/l/freetype/|source/l/freetype]] like above. The static libraries are built by default, but are deleted by the build script. To preserve these libraries, you need to comment the following line:<code>rm -f $PKG/usr/lib/*.a</code>Increment ''BUILD'' in this file too, then run<code># upgradepkg /tmp/freetype-2.3.4-i486-4.tgz</code>
==== DirectFB ====
Eric Hameleers has created a SlackBuild for DirectFB which is available from his [[http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/directfb/build/|SlackBuilds Repository]]. Simply grab the three files from there, and execute directfb.SlackBuild.
==== Splashy ====
Eric also created a SlackBuild for Splashy which is available [[http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/splashy/build/|from here]].
===== Pre-Built Binary =====
If all of the above seems like too much work, and you would rather use a prebuilt binary instead, Eric Hameleers has a binary package based on the above SlackBuild for Splashy 0.3.5 on Slackware 12.0, which is available [[http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/splashy/pkg/|here]].
===== Configuration =====
As of now, the only known way of running Splashy during boot is by editing ''/etc/rc.d/rc.S'' and ''/etc/rc.d/rc.M''. This is **very dangerous** if you don't know what you are doing, so it is imperative to make backups of these files before you start.

I added the following to the beginning of ''/etc/rc.d/rc.S'' <code># Start Splashy
/sbin/splashy boot</code>
I then added the following line after each "paragraph" of ''rc.S'' and ''rc.M''<code>/sbin/splashy_update "progress #"</code>Updating # with the actual percentage as I went along.