Okay, I need little info about slackers way of installing packages etc. I know the installpkg command and pkgtool but the main question is that can slackware get the packages straigth from the internet from some mirror site? Something like the "emerge" in Gentoo. Gentoo is a sweet system and I'm still undecided between it and slacker. Gentoo is too time consuming.

If there is that thing in slacker, could you give quick how-to for it so I can get this thing going.

A couple that I have heard reviews about (always mixed) are swaret (Slackware Tool), and slapt-get (Play on apt-get). I personally use swaret, and don't touch the repositories. I just use it to update the packages to current automagically. Give one or both a try, or do some reading. Their webpages are a wealth of info.

Regards,

Alunduil

P.S. I believe they are both mentioned in SlackBook, but it's been a while. :P

If using anything to update packages "automagically", DONT

Make sure you read all documentation for them, and don't use them to update things like the kernel or alsa. If you read these forums, they are rife with "Updated xxx with swaret, now it doesn't work". Mostly because they didn't read the changelogs, or let it do all "automagically"

Just a warning

Hi,

I can recommend SlackPkg. It will download packages directly from the server and will install/update it. You also can search for packages and get additional information.

Have a look at it, you will find it on the second Slackware CD under /extras

Marco

If you're talking about new packages then linuxpackages.net is good for slackware packages. There's no official repository other than extra.

Okay, I'll try some of the mentioned.

Let me add that slackpkg is indeed very good, but it doesn't do dependency checking. slapt-get and swaret try to to this. For this sake packages have to carry information about dependencies with them (which is the trick in RPM and APT and Emerge). The packages stored in LinuxPackages.net and some other, small repositories provide this information, while "official" packages don't. But you still can install those extended packages with the standard tools (installpkg, upgradepkg, removepkg), the additional info is just ignored by them.

gargamel