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As for you other ninnyhammers in the thread, there might be a valid reason for someone to want to get their hands on a debian package while running Slackware.
(I wouldn't do that, but I've been running Slackware since 1996.)
apt-get, wget, and git are three very different programs, they aren't really comparable. Although, I don't know your situation and am not judging you, your post would indicate that Slackware may not be the best distribution for you.
If you already know this, it is not intended to insult you, but if you don't it might help you, not just in this situation but in future situations:
apt-get: a program which installs Debian packages for software, it is limited to Debian based distributions, such as Ubuntu, other distribution have other ways of distributing software. I am not sure, but I think that slackware uses something based on compiling from source, which means you will have to download and compile the source as given by dugan and trademark91.
wget: this is a program that simply downloads a file from the internet. It is equivalent to going to the location with a browser and downloading something, but it can be used from the command line, you could use this to download the source tarball, but you would still need to compile and install it.
git: This is a version-control program, which allows developers to keep track of changes to the source code. If the given program uses git, then you could probably clone the source directory and use that to compile and install the program. However, there are other version-control softwares, such as bazaar, svn, mercurial, cvs, etc.
Forget about using packages from one distribution inside the other! If you mange to find a really effective way to do this, you will become one of the most famous Linux developers ;-)
But yes, using git repository can be treated as an alternative, meaning that you can always try to compile from sources.
Well then, although they operate in entirely different ways, apt-get is to a debian distribution what installpkg is to slackware and therefore, it manages binaries. Source programs are out of its scope. (Perhaps it is not reasonable to compare apt-get with installpkg given the fact that apt-get downloads the package before doing anything else.)
What makes this thread to be about uboot-mkimage exclusively. Now, I do not see why this has to be different from, say, downloading the sources for MPlayer from its official site and compiling. That is, the usual './configure; make' optionally followed by 'make install'. Provided the source package includes a main configure file.
So, as to uboot-mkimage, I'll begin by looking for the official web site.
Forget about using packages from one distribution inside the other! If you mange to find a really effective way to do this, you will become one of the most famous Linux developers ;-)
There are SlackBuilds that build Slackware packages out of RPM or .deb packages. What they do is extract the .rpm or .deb (with ar in the case of .deb packages), and then run makepkg on the resulting directory.
The google-chrome SlackBuild in /extra would be an example.
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