Hi all,

I am a Debian GNU/Linux user and I just wanted to give a try to Slackware because I heard a lot about it. I got Slackware 8.1 CDs from a friend of mine and installed it. I didn't find any difficulty with the installer. But once I got my system up and running, I just wanted to install more packages from the CD 1 and CD 2. I used pkgtool. But I am not sure how to install only additional packages. (N.B: Some packages are already installed). pkgtool prompts Yes/No question for each package in the CD installation directory. Should I manually select all non installed packages? Won't the package manager find the new packages for me? Please help me out.

And also, I don't find dependency checks at any point. Is that so?

Thanks for any suggestions to come up.

installpkg packagename.tgz

No dependency checks are done in Slackware. However, the Swaret project are implementing this in their latest version of this useful too.

What I wanted to know exactly is that will the package manager automatically chooses the non installed packages from the CD? It's a real pain for me to keep track of what all are installed and what should I install newly.

try to look in /var/log/packages
it lists all the packages currently installed

you can use pkgtool to view currently installed packages

try playing around with

#upgradepkg
#installpkg -warn

more info from http://www.slackware.com/book/index....rce=x4000.html