dep, FHS, Slackware

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600
begin  Myles Green <mylesg at nucleus.com> spewed forth:

> 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.

You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from source,
or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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