Hi could anyone Tell me where I should do these steps when installing slackware I'm trying to build the slackware packages with an install from a CD

Configure and compile the source where should I put these lines of code

1 ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=var --sysconfdir=/etc
make

Make a temporary destination directory available

2 mkdir /tmp/build

Install into the temporary directory

3 make install DESTDIR=/tmp/build

You're looking good in what is written. It doesn't matter where you do the steps. I would alter

3. make DESTDIR=/tmp/build install
The difference is that the DESTDIR is passed to the install action. The way you have it is ambiguous.

4. cd /tmp/build
5. makepkg ../foo-version-any random-junk-you-want.txz

The ../ is very important to have the package land outside of the package dir. Then

6. rm -rf /tmp/build/*
to clean up.

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Thank you very much

When I enter these commands in my termial

./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var sysconfdir=/etc
make

The make command is not found, what can I do to begin to setup a build environment I got some help from the Business Kid that I will try later but I don't think the make command will work I've tried once before

@Troy50 if you did a full install, which you should because you are new, you would have make. So to fix this, do a full install.

This is slackware if you're making packages, right?

The slackware64/d directory has the stuff you need. You need C, C++, maybe C#, java. You hardly need cobol, fortran, ada, or the weird ones. You need everything with 'auto' in it, every form of make (make, cmake, pmake) bison, m4, python, dev86, kernel headers git, subversion, cvs, doxygen, flex, libtool, llvm, m4, & kernel headers. I imagine you already have binutils; if not, install them too.

Most of that stuff is used by scripts the various packages run. As has been mentioned, installing the lot is not a bad idea. But you don't need to install kdei double-dutch fonts or help pages, etc. Just the stuff in slackware64/d.

I think these posts are mixing up how Slackware is installed. Slackware is installed as a set of binary packages, not like gentoo where you have to compile all your packages as part of the install. The source is provided in case you want to recompile something, but the Slackware install dvd is only designed to install precompiled binary packages.

Once you have Slackware installed, then you'll have a "build environment" that you can use to recompile slackware packages (if desired) or to compile new packages. slackbuilds.org can be used to find a lot of packages and it will tell you any dependencies that are needed (that aren't included in a full install) to compile that piece of software.