THANKS uelsk8s!
It worked and so now does my beloved lyx! I will post here too if it happened to also have fixed the problem with lyx occasionally and radically slowing down.
John
p.s.
For what its worth, here is the install result. After following your instruction, I got a couple of errors (perhaps because I am still using 5.9) which I pass along as a matter of interest only. It works fine!
root:# installpkg *tgz
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| 1/2 | Installing lzma-4.32.0beta3-i586-1vl60.tgz |
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| LZMA utils (compression utilities with gzip-like interface) |
| |
| LZMA provides very high compression ratio and fast decompression. |
| The core of the LZMA utils is Igor Pavlov's LZMA SDK containing |
| the actual LZMA encoder/decoder. LZMA utils add a few scripts |
| which provide gzip-like command line interface and a couple of |
| other LZMA related tools. |
| |
| LZMA utils is required to support LZMA compressed .tlz packages. |
| |
|
http://tukaani.org/lzma/ -
http://7-zip.org/sdk.html |
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/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/i386-slackware-linux/lib (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnuaout/lib (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/openwin/lib (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /opt/qt4/lib (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (No such file or directory), skipping
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libdl.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping
Executing install script for lzma-4.32.0beta3-i586-1vl60...
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| 2/2 | Installing pkgtools-tukaani-1.2.4-i586-1vl60.tgz |
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WARNING: Package has no description.
Executing install script for pkgtools-tukaani-1.2.4-i586-1vl60...
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