Question about Slackware and Package Management

[Meng Cheah]

Steve wrote:
> I am interested in trying Slackware, however I am curious as to how
> package management works with it. Am I correct in assuming that
> anything you want to install, you download the tarball and use make
> and install? Are there any dependency problems? Is it up to the user
> to make sure all required packages are present... will the install
> process alert you to this?
> 
> I'm used to things like yum and apt-get so that is why I am wondering
> what to do with Slackware.

Slackware is awesome.

Checkout checkinstall and swaret. Swaret is like apt-get.

I haven't used slackpkg and slacktrack though(they are included in the 
extra packages directory).

Enjoy :-)

Meng
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