Slackware Live Edition

Re:Slackware Live Edition by pbhjpbhj on Sunday November 22, 2015 @02:18PM (#10611077)

I moved from Slackware to Kubuntu too, but as I recall Slack had something - maybe slackpkg - that did dependency installation. I jumped ship for the breadth of packages available and automatic kernel module compilation (I forget what it's called at the moment; recompiling nvidia video modules was getting to be a pain and I needed to keep the family computer online consistently).

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Re:Slackware Live Edition by morb on Sunday November 22, 2015 @02:50PM (#10611196)

slackpkg doesn't do dependencies.

slapt-get (http://software.jaos.org/) does, but it needs repo that has dependency metadata. Official repos don't have it. If a repository doesn't have dependency metadata then slapt-get doesn't resolve deps for that set of packages.

Some other repos (AlienBob's for instance) do have dependency metadata, which assume that you did a full Slackware install, so only dependencies that aren't part of Slackware are listed.

There is also slapt-src (same URL) that automates installing stuff from http://slackbuilds.org/, and it resolves dependencies. It's not fullproof, but is good enough (for me, at least).

There's a new repo on http://slackonly.com/ which offers binary packages built from scripts on slackbuilds, and it looks like it has dependency metadata. I can't vouch for the quality of those packages, I haven't used it yet.

UPDATE: After skimming through PACKAGES.TXT for a few minutes, I'm not confident that slackonly repo has all dep. metadata correct, but hopefully they'll get better with it soon.

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Re:Slackware Live Edition by pbhjpbhj on Sunday November 22, 2015 @03:19PM (#10611320)

Ah, you're right it was slapt-get that I used; it convinced me that apt-get was really good, part of the reason I moved despite up to then being more familiar with compiling my own (yay for checkinstall) or using yum.

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Re:Slackware Live Edition by geggam on Sunday November 22, 2015 @04:59PM (#10611658)

sbotools is the magic dep mgr for slackbuilds

http://dawnrazor.net/sbotools/

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Re:Slackware Live Edition by ryanpcmcquen on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:28PM (#10618977)

slpkg is worth a look:

https://github.com/dslackw/slpkg

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Re:Slackware Live Edition by darkr on Sunday November 22, 2015 @03:01PM (#10611238)

> automatic kernel module compilation (I forget what it's called at the moment;

It's called DKMS, a Dell project originally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Suppor...

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