slarm64 (unofficial slackware) Rock64 RK3328 (aarch64)

[Enig123]

Will you keep updating 4.4.y kernel in the future?

As you mentioned that for now, 4.4.y kernel is maturer, at least in terms of video playback, compare with 5.8.y kernel right?

[mara]

it is, but the developers are porting from 4.4.y to 4.19.y.
Yes so far 4.4.y is updated and supported.
Still, a lot has been done to play videos at 5.x, but so far I haven't really tried it.

[mara]

judging by the changes in the kernel repository, the rockchip team switched from the 4.4.y branch to 4.19.y, a test build:

kernel 4.19.153

slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-20201023-4.19.153-rock64-build-20201029.img.zst
slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-20201023-4.19.153-rock64-build-20201029.img.zst.md5
slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-4.19.153-rock64-build-20201029.img.zst
slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-4.19.153-rock64-build-20201029.img.zst.md5

[mara]

update:

• kernel 4.4.241
  
• rootfs 2020.10.23
  
• update all packages Fri Oct 30 06:04:03 UTC 2020
  

slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-20201023-4.4.241-rock64-build-20201031.img.zst
slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-20201023-4.4.241-rock64-build-20201031.img.zst.md5
slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-4.4.241-rock64-build-20201031.img.zst
slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-4.4.241-rock64-build-20201031.img.zst.md5

[mara]

kernel 5.9.3
slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-20201023-5.9.3-rock64-build-20201102.img.zst
slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-20201023-5.9.3-rock64-build-20201102.img.zst.md5
slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-5.9.3-rock64-build-20201102.img.zst
slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-5.9.3-rock64-build-20201102.img.zst.md5

[Enig123]

@mara,
While I tried for a while and failed to find the unzip package of slarm64, can you help me on how to install it? Or I will have to compile it from sources?

[mara]

@mara,
While I tried for a while and failed to find the unzip package of slarm64, can you help me on how to install it? Or I will have to compile it from sources?

here is the description by appointment README.TXT

Code:

zstdcat slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-20201023-5.9.3-rock64-build-20201102.img.zst > /dev/mmcblk0

[Enig123]

@mara,
I couldn't find logrotate tool with the image. Will you please give me some hint/reference where I can get start at?

[mara]

@mara,
I couldn't find logrotate tool with the image. Will you please give me some hint/reference where I can get start at?

what image are you using base / xfce?
if you have slackpkg configured, run:

Code:

slackpkg install logrotate

if not configured, download the package and run logrotate-3.17.0-aarch64-1.txz and run:

Code:

installpkg logrotate-3.17.0-aarch64-1.txz

[Enig123]

@mara,
I couldn't find logrotate tool with the image. Will you please give me some hint/reference where I can get start at?

what image are you using base / xfce?
if you have slackpkg configured, run:

Code:

slackpkg install logrotate

if not configured, download the package and run logrotate-3.17.0-aarch64-1.txz and run:

Code:

installpkg logrotate-3.17.0-aarch64-1.txz

Thank you for your quick help. BTW, I am using the base image, and the slackpkg installed from the current branch does not work as expected somehow. It kept asking for the correct pgp key.

Perhaps I installed the wrong version of slackpkg?

Edit: Another question is for how to unzip a .zip file, which usually use package named "unzip" in most Linux distributions.