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Konqueror unable to load SSL sites

I noticed that konqueror in Slax is not able to load SSL sites. It complains about invalid certificates. The same happens if you try to get some KDE themes, since it uses https as well. The reason for this was a mystery for me, I even recompiled QT once more to assure there is openSSL properly linked but still nothing.

So, what was wrong? Basically every time when a SSL website is loaded, konueror (or any browser in general) needs to check root certificates to confirm if the certificate of the given website is valid. Even if I installed ca-certificates package to Slax it was not working. The reason is that Slackware's install script updates /etc/ssl/certs even if you install the package to different root (which is the way how Slax is built).

Thus I just have to re-run update-ca-certs using chroot during Slax creation, to be sure it properly updates SLAXROOT/etc/ssl/certs directory. Since that is done, SSL (HTTPS) websites work in konqueror and in KDE in general.

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