Just a question on additional modules
 

Slackware is all installed and working fine. When I installed the default selection only used CD's 1 and 2. Now that I am there and working and knowing that I don't need the other languages on KDE, can I use the CD 3 to add programs? I think from what I read that this CD has additional programs other than the KDE international. Is this usable with the pkgtool CDROM source of packages? or is there something else I need to do to get things from this CD. I would try it but I am leery of screwing up what I now have working until I get better at Slacking.

Extra programs are found on the 3rd CD and can be installed with pkgtool or with the command "installpkg PackageName.tgz". In either case you must be root, "so su -" first. You should have no fear installing any of these packages. If you change your mind, you can remove a package with pkgtool or removepkg.

It also contains the sources for the extra programs, which you can use should you wish to rebuild something with different options.

Slackware packages are what you should install on your system, and they all end in .tgz. "modules" usually means "kernel modules", and refers to loadable and unloadable kernel functionality. There are some packages that contain modules, but most contain ordinary, actually often extraordinary, programs.

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And for lots of additional programs, go to slackbuilds.org, slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds, or slacky.eu. Follow the simple instructions and make your own packages.
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Brian

That answered part of the question
 

The rest is when I load the CD into the tray and call up pkgtool, do I select the option to get the packages from the CDROM or is there something else because it is a Slackware official disk? I think that is right but I did not want to take a chance in loading more than I actually bargained for.

There's more than one way to do it. What I'd do is, as root, cd into the directory on the cd containing the package you want to install and then "installpkg package_file_name.tgz".
Or else call pkgtool from that directory.

Brian

One nice thing about Slack is no automatic dependency checking, so you only ever install what you explicitly choose to install (unless you use swaret or slapt-get).

Brian