Slackware 13.0 released [LWN.net]

Slackware 13.0 released

Posted Aug 30, 2009 12:00 UTC (Sun) by sci3ntist (guest, #46657)
Parent article: Slackware 13.0 released

I hope to see a package management interface officially installed with this release.

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Slackware 13.0 released

Posted Aug 30, 2009 14:59 UTC (Sun) by Camarade_Tux (guest, #51944) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, there has always been pkgtool which has a dialog-based interface but I guess that's not what you want.

This release now has slackpkg which will automate some package-related tasks. Speaking of which, I'm going to grab my external hard-drive, check I have the latest rsync and slacpkg upgrade-all (that's not the only thing to do in general but I've already done the first part).

And there is also sbopkg which you can get at sbopkg.org and which uses slackbuilds.org to build packages. Also, if you're on slackware64, export ARCH=x86_64 before running sbopkg.

Slackpkg is highly-regarded (enough to make it into slackware ;) ) and sbopkg is too. You can use them without worrying.

Slackware 13.0 released

Posted Sep 3, 2009 12:29 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022) [Link]

And besides those, there is a lot of support for slapt-get, an APT clone. Even has a GUI, gslapt. The GNOME SlackBuild project ships it, or it can be gotten separately, and as long as the package properly defines its requirements, slapt-get does everything that you'd expect of a package tool.

Slackware 13.0 released

Posted Sep 1, 2009 6:22 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

What? Why?!?! How absurd. You obviously arent a slacker. Just because other distros do things stupidly doesnt mean Patrick will. Fortunately.