This is particularly useful for security updates or significant application upgrades that are posted to the Slackware servers, some of which you may want to start using on your own system.
Find the mirror that is associated with your Slackware version and architecture, and uncomment it. This list of mirrors offers ftp and http access, but you must uncomment only one mirror. Once a mirror has been selected, update the list of remote files by issuing the initial command slackpkg update.
This should be done any time you notice that a new package has been posted regularly checking in with the Slackware changelog is recommended; see Chapter 18, Keeping Track of Updates for more information. To search for a package, use slackpkg search foo , and to install use slackpkg install foo. Once a package has been installed with slackpkg , it can be removed or upgraded using pkgtool and the other package management commands as detailed in Installing, Removing, and Upgrading Packages.
For more information see the man pages for slackpkg 8 and slackpkg. One of the most ubiquitous package formats for Linux software is RPM; it's not uncommon to find a developer offering their application for download as either source code or an RPM file, and no more.
In this case, you would have three options:. Building from source code or creating your own Slackware package is usually not as complex as you might think but installing directly from source code is generally discouraged because there is no easy way to track what has been installed on your system after issuing the make install command.
Building your own Slackware packages is outside the scope of this chapter. So this leaves us with the helpful tool rpm2tgz. This circumvents the need to create your own Slackware package but grants you the benefit of being able to remove, update, and track what you've installed. To try rpm2tgz , download an RPM file from a trusted source and convert it:. The result is a. Use installpkg to install the Slackware package you've just created, provided that you've installed all dependency code for the application to actually function.
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