Hi. I'm new to Linux, and I just completed my first install of Slackware 10.0. My big question is how do I find out which version of things such as Apache and Java already exist on my machine, and how do I "upgrade" them? From what I've seen so far, I think I'm supposed to compile the new version and then remove the old version, and reset the links to the latest version. Let me know if that's correct, and please send any good links you have about removing existing programs. I have read stuff about RPM, but no instructions on how to find what a program's package name is. Please help. Thanks.

Daniel

Slackware doesn't use RPM's. Slackware "program's" in the Windows sense are *.tgz files. RPM files are for RedHat / Fedora Core.

Though you can convert RPMs to TGZ via a built in utility called 'rpm2tgz'

You currently have Apache 1.3.x installed. This version is plenty fine for most usages.

on a default slackware installation apache 1.3.31 is the version loaded (i belive), if you become root and run pkgtool you can list all installed apps, there version number, proc arch and names are all there.

i always build apache from source, so i uninstalled apache 1.3, and built 2.X.

note: log in as root and run pkgtool, visit slackware site for package management info

Thanks for the info. Can I also uninstall java using the pkgtool?

yep

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