help with linux installation

[Garrett Klein]

Hello,

I believe slapt-get still exists and is current. It's basically apt-get
for slackware (with the exception that most of what you want is in
third-party packages.

Garrett

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:40:08PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 
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