How to add apps to a distro with no pkg manager?
 

I'm trying to add various apps to pmagic-4.4/4.5 as pmagic
is made with slack12.2 and some debian

no pkg manager though
apps must be "hand-installed"
http://partedmagic.com/documentation...-programs.html

I believe I need binary pkgs
is there a place to get 12.2 binarys with depends pre-installed?

Problem is I don't know how to figure out all the depends for say, Gimp?

I don't want to add the apps to pmagic/pmodules as there loaded to ram
which is inconveinent compared to having them installed into the pmagic.sqfs filesystem

I want to add Gimp and maybe Audacious

what should I do guys?

You need to install from source.
Are there any compilers installed ?
Download the tar from gimp, and start configure, it will tell you what is missing.

Well
I thought about that too repo
thats a good idea, though it would mean alot of trial and error work

what exactly does this mean repo
also, is there maybe a possibility that Slax apps would work?
do they already contain the depends?
whats a pkg called if it comes with all depends?
is that a binary or whats that called?

http://partedmagic.com/documentation...-programs.html
Seems to me you need to solve all dependies by hand.

However some programms, like firefox come with all libraries included in the tar.