Slackware tools do not provide dependency resolution for packages

ProzacR · 01-24-2014, 07:03 AM

I am writing from Slackware with KDE now. Really happy about it so far.

hitest · 01-24-2014, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ProzacR

I am writing from Slackware with KDE now. Really happy about it so far.

Congratulations! Once you Slack, you never go back. Welcome to our forum!

Ratmonkey · 01-24-2014, 07:55 AM

Awesome! And what hitest just said is correct. Since 13.37 I've been using Slackware as my main Linux install. I have deviated a couple times, but keep coming back to Slackware. It works, it's fun, and the guys here are great.

Welcome!

moisespedro · 01-24-2014, 11:29 AM

With slackpkg and sbopkg I can install/update pretty much everything I need. If I can't find a software on slackbuilds.org I use src2pkg or rpm2tgz to create my packages and it works fine. One thing I really dislike on debian and all "apt" distros is that it seems that apt is always trying to destroy your system.

dugan · 01-24-2014, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by hitest

Congratulations! Once you Slack, you never go back. Welcome to our forum!

I'll just "+1" this.

ReaperX7 · 01-26-2014, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by hitest

Congratulations! Once you Slack, you never go back. Welcome to our forum!

Not all of us "stay" with Slackware, but we use Slackware for other purposes like those of us who use LFS. If it wasn't for Slackware, I'd have never gotten into LFS. I would probably consider myself a Slackware Allumni User. To me LFS is, in my opinion, the next and possibly final step after Slackware, but I have to say, Slackware taught me EVERYTHING I'd need to know. No other distribution offered that.

If I ever ran into Patrick, I'd probably buy him a beer, shake his hand, and say "Thank you".

brianL · 01-26-2014, 05:01 PM

I still haven't tried LFS. Been thinking about it for years...Ah, well...anybody got a cure for chronic laziness?

ReaperX7 · 01-26-2014, 05:09 PM

LFS is actually fun. It builds extremely well off Slackware, and Slackware is heavily recommended for building LFS.

moisespedro · 01-26-2014, 06:23 PM

Can you use LFS as your main distro? Is it hard to keep it updated?

brianL · 01-26-2014, 06:35 PM

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Can you use LFS as your main distro?

LFS plus BLFS maybe.

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Is it hard to keep it updated?

Harder than any "ready-made" distro.
Of course, I'm only guessing.

ReaperX7 · 01-26-2014, 06:51 PM

If you keep logs of what you install and add to the system, updating LFS is about as easy as updating Slackware... Just a little more involved as you'll have to update dependencies and packages in sequences and build packages.

Otherwise easy or hard is what you make of it. Just like Slackware, but if you have enough experience with Slackware knowing what all to do should be second nature.

moisespedro · 01-26-2014, 07:18 PM

Sometimes I think about building a simple desktop system, I only need a few things like: i3, firefox, a file manager, a media player and a torrent client. I am happy with slack but I think LFS/BLFS might be fun.

zrdc28 · 01-28-2014, 05:59 PM

When you go to slackbuilds.org and find what you like it will just about always tell you the dependencies needed just install them first. There are several different places to find pre built packages ready to install if you wish. Aliens and ponce is just 2 of those.

willysr · 01-28-2014, 07:34 PM

Don't forget about the new sqg tool from sbopkg 0.37 which can make your life easier dealing dependencies for SBo

you can read how to use it on my SlackBlogs