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You could, if you really wanted to, just install the rpms directly. Slackware ships rpm.
I've done it.
What I typically do these days is uncompress the RPMs with rpm2cpio, copy the files to the correct locations, and then run makepkg. That allows me to make adjustments such as moving files that would have gone into /usr/share/man into /usr/man.
adjustments such as moving files that would have gone into /usr/share/man into /usr/man.
In my system (Slackware 14 stable) /usr/share/man is just a symbolic link to /usr/man, so you don't need to do that.
I doubt that has changed in -current.
Doesn't pkgs.org choose the nearest mirror? That is, -current won't be mirrored from the University of Utah if there's a closer source? At any rate, Slackware packages using an official mirror like slackware.cs.utah.edu would be just as easily accessible from the Slackware web site or certain package managers, so I'm not sure it's particularly useful.
The mirror the package is coming from is shown on the page that describes the package. The "Slackware Current / Slackware x86_64" section of pkgs.org is up to date as of ChangeLog.txt Fri Feb 28 03:53:37 UTC 2020.
As far as usefulness? Well I bookmarked the place ages ago, completely forgot about it until this thread. Would I get may packages from here? Probably not when I can get them via slackpkg "mirrors" and slackpkg+ "MIRRORPLUS" both of which offer package verification. Something pkgs.org does not do.
I personally don't trust rpm2tgz. I've seen issues on the forum where it's jacked up permissions of the system, because the rpm had weird permissions and rpm2tgz (or maybe it was deb2tgz) didn't sanitize them.
Personally, I'd much rather extract the contents of the rpms and debs and then manually create a Slackware package.
Agree and do the same.
Last edited by chrisretusn; 03-01-2020 at 07:17 AM.
Current. The Slackbuild works but the Lutris that it builds doesn't and the newer Lutris version available wants Gnome Desktop 3.0.
Use my personal GitLab repo, I can't submit the newest version of gnome-desktop because it is broke in 14.2.
I currently can't "open" Lutris, I think maybe have some problem with PAM but I am only guessing.
In the shell it show as running, but don't know why the window doesn't show up, yet!
Use my personal GitLab repo, I can't submit the newest version of gnome-desktop because it is broke in 14.2.
I currently can't "open" Lutris, I think maybe have some problem with PAM but I am only guessing.
In the shell it show as running, but don't know why the window doesn't show up, yet!
I recall hearing of this site before. I was reminded of another terrible site whose name escapes me right now that no longer exist that carried Slackware packages. This is a bit different. It looks to be a mirror site. I personally would never get a package from this site. Why use this site when you can get your packages from the original source and official mirrors. If your looking for Slackware packages use this site instead: http://www.slakfinder.org/
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