help with linux installation

[Jude DaShiell]

Slackware uses a package called swared for package management.  The last 
release of it was in 2004 but it still does work with slackware 11.0 and 
likely will work into the future.  If you use that package manager edit 
its configuration file and specify 11 for the version or current for the 
version you want to maintain on your system before running the package for 
the first time and you should be good to go.  Other package managers for 
slackware did exist but they've fallen by the wayside due to lack of 
maintenance.  Some of them have hard limits on what version you can 
upgrade to built into them believe it or not!