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A few years ago, someone took a graphical version of slackpg and I replied with a small patch that allowed to use kdialog instead of dialog. Of course no one, not even me, has never used this patch because useless.
Now it was being planned to start developing something.
The plan for now is only a concept; I think it's just a wrapper slackpkg+ based on kdialog (not a simple replacement of dialog with kdialog but not something elaborated based on languages and API that I do not know).
Before we begin, however, I would like to be sure that someone has not already done something to not end up with yet another package manager.
If I understand your question correctly, then yes, there is one that would probably work for Slack. It is GNOME Software, and I'm pretty sure it runs on Slack.
The only UI based package manager for any Slackware or Slackware-based system is gslapt which uses slapt-get. SalixOS uses it. http://software.jaos.org/
The only UI based package manager for any Slackware or Slackware-based system is gslapt which uses slapt-get. SalixOS uses it. http://software.jaos.org/
I would like such project! A nice little GUI for slackpkg/slackpkg+ would be really awesome! QTGZManager is OK'ish, but has some rough edges. It lacks ability to register as a handling program for .tgz, .txz types, so you have to use in program file browser to locate custom packages. And it does not read mirror list that is actually used by slackpkg. Separate list has to be maintained. And such. I didn't try gnome-pkgtool yet, but it doesn't sound too promising.
Last edited by Totoro-kun; 05-19-2015 at 11:30 PM.
It sounds like the options presented in this thread are not GUI frontends for slackpkg, rather they are either frontends for just pkgtool and don't provide updates, or they implement their own way of providing updates to the system outside of using slackpkg.
Although, I haven't used any of the above-mentioned programs, so I may be wrong...
We used to have KPackage back in KDE-3.x which had hooks for pkgtools. When 4.x came out, KPackage wasn't maintained and I think support was dropped for it eventually. Technically, pkgtools does have a UI, but it's ncurses based.
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