When I try to install something with KPackage, I get an error like the following:

error: Unable to create channel for file: <filename>

where filename is usually the tgz file I'm installing from. I can't find any references to this anywhere - any have any idea what it's telling me, and how to solve? A specific example is Wine - it gives this error:

error: Unable to create channel for file: /usr/local/src/wine-1.1.24-i486-1kjz.tgz

I'm running this as root in xfce. Running it as a regular user, after giving root password, gives the same result.

Kpackage requires the smart package manager to be installed and once it is installed it does not work fully with slackware packages, however it is easy to install packages.

as root from the command line in any terminal or terminal emulator.

However you may wish to investigate sbopkg as it will download, compile and install packages for you, and also manage upgrades.

samac

To make a long story short, I rolled everything back to Slack 12.2. All is well, everthing works, no more KDE black screens, etc. .

SBOPKG is nice. Very nice. It installed R, libdvdcss, and wine quite nicely, so I'm seeing how many other things it can install without error.