Is there a program like Yast

Trifid77 · 10-13-2004, 09:21 PM

Is there a program like Yast that you can use to install programs in Slackware 10.

How do you install programs?

gbonvehi · 10-13-2004, 09:24 PM

pkgtool
installpkg
and get packages from www.linuxpackages.net

There isn't a tool just like yast.

bathory · 10-14-2004, 02:14 AM

There is swaret (http://swaret.sourceforge.net/index.php) which is like yast and slapt-get (http://software.jaos.org/#slapt-get) which is like Debian's apt

AxeZ · 10-14-2004, 05:36 AM

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Originally posted by Trifid77

How do you install programs?

Compile it from source.

KMcD · 10-14-2004, 05:46 AM

you can download .tgz packages from a slackware mirror and use installpkg prog-name.tgz. If updating the package to newer version use:

upgradepkg oldpackage%newpackage.tgz

AxelFendersson · 10-14-2004, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Quoth KMcD:
If updating the package to newer version use:

upgradepkg oldpackage%newpackage.tgz

If the new package has the same name as the old (just a new version-number) then just
upgradepkg newpackage.tgz
will do the trick. You only need to specify the old package if the new one has a different name (e.g. when Mozilla Firebird became Firefox).