I wrote earlier about the free rock gnome failure and now I've got to write about the garnome failure. pyrexc couldn't be found which is some kind of python extension and I couldn't find python extensions or pyrexc in linuxpackages.net data base and was told my python is up to date. So for now notwithstanding any alternate suggestions given the current state of slackware getting gnopernicus to work long-term effectively on it isn't yet possible. All in all, a good thing to know.