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Old 02-04-2004, 03:43 PM   #1
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i switched to slack 9.1 from redhat 9 about a month or two ago. in redhat, they had a package updater that would check all rpms installed for a new version and update them as necessary. does slackware have anything like this?
 
Old 02-04-2004, 04:03 PM   #2
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Check out Swaret:


http://www.swaret.org/
 
Old 02-04-2004, 04:57 PM   #3
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awesome, works great, thanks
 
Old 02-04-2004, 10:18 PM   #4
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Slapt-get is also nice. I use them both.
 
  


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