dep, FHS, Slackware

Myles Green mylesg
Mon May 17 11:34:14 PDT 2004


On Monday 01 July 2002 05:42, Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:05:53 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Collins wrote:
> > >Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack?  I'm thinking of
> > >something with a database of installed packages, of course.
> >
> > I thought that was 'pkgtool'. Am I mislead again?
> > As root in a terminal type 'pkgtool' and have a look
> > around the installed packages.
>
> I don't think you're mislead, but I'm looking for something other
> than the standard Slack offering, since that only accounts for Slack
> packages, and there aren't Slack packages for a lot of stuff.

There's always linuxmafia.org for Slackware stuff, you'll find quite a 
bit there. IIRC, doesn't installwatch handle building slackware .tgz 
packages? It's been a few months since I used Slack extensively as I've 
been focusing on Red Hat for the very reasons M. Hipp gave at the start 
of this thread.

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