hi there! I'd like to know if there's a package management besides the standard .tgz for slackware. Thanks!<BR><BR><BR>--mod-edit--<BR><BR>You need to be specific in your topic-titling. No need for ...

Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...

First, I want to say that I was unsure if this should go into Which Distro topic, since it doesn't have to do entirely with choosing a distribution. While you'll understand what I mean in a moment, if ...

Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It can get ...

Give a man Ubuntu, and he'll learn Ubuntu. Give a man SUSE, and he'll learn SUSE. But give a man Slackware, and he'll learn Linux. Well, so the old internet maxim goes, but while it's normally used ...

The latest release of Slackel Linux renews and improves the mashup of Slackware and Salix built around an Openbox pseudo desktop environment. Slackel 7.2 hit the download servers on July 20, eight ...