Hi! I am running slackware 10.2.
I was trying to install slapt get, and chose the appropriate version from jaaos.org, "slapt-get 0.9.11a Slackware-10.2 package".
I unzipped the package and did "make" as suggested, but I get this error:
root@wildblue:/home/jimi/Down/swaret/slapt-get-0.9.11a-i386-1# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Then I tried "0.9.11a source tarball (md5sum)"
the "make" file works there, but it ends in an error:

install -d /var/slapt-get
for i in `ls po/ --ignore=slapt-get.pot --ignore=CVS |sed 's/.po//'` ;do if [ ! -d /usr/share/locale/$i/LC_MESSAGES ]; then mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/$i/LC_MESSAGES; fi; msgfmt -o /usr/share/locale/$i/LC_MESSAGES/slapt-get.mo po/$i.po;done
po/id.po:359: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
mkdir -p /usr/doc/slapt-get-0.9.11a/
cp example.slapt-getrc COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL README FAQ FAQ.html TODO /usr/doc/slapt-get-0.9.11a/


any ideas?
thank you!

If it is a slackware package which you can tell if it ends in .tgz If it ends in that then use kpackage to install it

HA! that worked, thanks! slapt-get and gslapt installed fine. I even get an icon(gslapt) in my menu, but when I click it, it tries to load, but crashes before it comes up!

root@wildblue:/usr/sbin# gslapt
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


(gslapt:10035): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Cant run super user gui based apps in a console while logged in as a low level account. You should be able to bring up the kmenu or start menu (whatever you want to call it) go to Run Command and type gslapt if thats the name of the program

Nevermind, I got it! some permission problem.
thanks again!