Newbie needs help.

I know about sbopkg. But I want to be able to install manually from RPM packages.

Hi,

You can run:

http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php

The information at the bottom of the page tells you how to convert an rpm to a slackware compatible package.

There is a near 100% chance you do not want to do this. RPM's are not made for slackware.
You can not install just any old RPM and have it work and there is a good chance you would
also break your slackware install. There are a few 3rd party applications that are distributed
in RPM as sort of a universal package but even these need special care to integrate with
slackware.

In my view it would be better to build a package using a slackbuild because you should make a slack-desc and might need a doinst.sh. You can look at the open office slackbuild on sbo for an idea: http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...org.SlackBuild

The conversion bits:

Will certainly keep that in mind. Thank you.

Assuming that you cannot find a slackbuild for your package, put rpm package in its own directory and cd to that directory, then

Then inspect the contents of the folder to make sure it is compatible with slackware's layout: binaries are in /usr/bin , libraries in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64, startup configurations in /etc/rc.d, and so forth. If it seems like it's compatible go ahead and use makepkg to create a slackware package , and then installpkg to install it... the beautiful thing about slackware packages, is you can use removepkg to remove it if it doesn't work or somehow breaks the system, unless it breaks system so much that you can no longer use the pkgtools, in which case you boot from the install media, and mount your file system(s) and then use removepkg from the startup media with the ROOT=/mountpointofyourfilesystem to remove the package...