Hi,

I'm new. So far, all the software I've needed have been available as either an official package, at Slackbuilds.org or at Alien Bob's Slackbuilds.

I want to run the software Camlistore. This lists google-go-lang 1.5 as a requirement. The current version at slackbuilds.org is 1.4.3.

I have been googling queries similar to the topic of this post, but have not had any luck. Maybe my lack of knowledge is missing out on some important keywords.

What would be some suggested good procedure in order to run go-lang 1.5, or if applicable, software in general on Slackware in a situation like this? What steps do I typically need to research in order to accomplish it?

Thank you for your time!

Were it I, I would obtain the sources from a reputable location, preferably the maintainer's website, and compile the software from sources, resolving any dependencies as needed.

You can find the SlackBuild scripts for google-go-lang-1.6.2 here:

https://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbu...google-go-lang

Of course you will have to find the sources yourself.

We are at a time where SBo is pretty much frozen pending the release of Slackware 14.2, and this is sort of the holding ground for new SlackBuilds until it is released.

This version should work, but no guarantees.

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Modify the SlackBuild to build the newer version.

In a lot of cases, you don't even have to edit the SlackBuild. You can just do:

There's an explanation of how SlackBuilds scripts work, here:

http://www.slackwiki.com/Writing_A_SlackBuild_Script

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Yep. If there is a slackbuild for the package, you can normally get away with modifying that.

If there isn't a slackbuild for the package (In the OP's case, there is one so that won't apply for the OP.), then (IMO) you should try the very excellent tool src2pkg (http://distro.ibiblio.org/amigolinux/download/src2pkg/) to do the build for you.

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Thanks for the help! These were all great replies to me - further reading on SlackBuilds that I needed, and a specific solution to the problem in question.

I tried the version from the slackbuilds.org git repo suggested by Skaendo and it worked well.

There's a tool called mkslack which can create SlackBuild if you give it a source archive
http://dawoodfall.net/slackbuilds/noversion/mkslack

I've done lots of times and it works well!