When installing new software on Amigo 2.0, I have used the slackware Package Browser (http://www.slackware.com/pb/) to find out where needed files resides. If you are in need of required file xyz, you can search the package browser and easy find out out what to get.

Has anyone tried SWARET on Amigo?

Oh, that's excellent! I've been looking for a way to do just that within the system, actually. I've been using a prog called slackdeptrack,also. Both of these only provide the information.
I am not a fan of automatic upgrading and am hoping to build each version as rock solid as possible. The new version is packed with libs, which should allow the user to drop in most anything that we provide, or that is compatible with the matching stable Slackware version, oe that they compile -the new version includes gcc, gcc++ and even gcc-obj(should be able to compile anything installed).
I already have about 100 programs packaged and ready for
AmigoXP(10.0), including about 50 AppDir's for use with ROX. These don't have to be installed at all. The user just puts the folder in HOME or /usr/apps, /usr/local/apps, or any /app directory where they have RW permissions. They can be moved around without affecting them because they have all their files in this single directory.
I am also working on getting the Zero Install system working, another invention from the same guy as ROX-filer, which gives you access to even more software which is packaged for 'non' installation.
If you run swaret on Amigo2.0 it might not break it. But if you run swaret on Slack 10.0, you get a whole new system, uncompatible with
slack-10.0, because of some major lib changes in 'current'. Because of this, Linuxpackages.net had to caution contributors to build only on UN-updated systems, for compatibility. One guy still uploads packages that he says are built on an 'up-to-date' system. But perhaps tomorrow 'current' changes -you can't even know what 'up-to-date' meant on that date anymore.
There are a set of scripts written by some Slackware users which help find information about missing files, or find 'orphaned' files in your system, which I plan to incorporate in some way also.

speaking of dependencies...


what's the deal with libXinerama.so?

some programs complain that it is missing, but i can't find it on any slackpack...

i even tried a solution i found somewhere:

and still i keep getting the same error message:

You can try to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Put this in .profile:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path_to_needed_library:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

It might happen your application then finds the libXinerama.so file. I think there are two possibilities, the application don't find libXinerama.so, or, there is a wrong version somewhere. The error message you get comes from the app who don't find the lib.

This file is a part of newer X11 releases (not sure which ones, though ). All I know is that slackware-current X.org 6.8.1 contains that file. :P

Yes, libXinerama comes in xfree86 also. This is a commonly used library and I remember having programs not find it. Which program is it that gives this error.
Recently, while trying to compile some progs, I ran into this with Xlibs and header files. Apparently, debian and redhat have a different layout than slackware, which some programs can't figure out.