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Slackware Dependency Hell
Name: deity_me Date: July 11, 2005 at 22:14:36 Pacific OS: Slackware CPU/Ram: Athlon
Comment:
I'm installing Slackware 10.1 Havent been using linux for nearly a year and i'm forgetting some stuff about it but is there anything I can get for slackware like apt-get or yum to take care of dependency hell for me when i try to install some packages?
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Name: Jake2 Date: July 11, 2005 at 23:44:51 Pacific
Reply:
swaret seems to be the binary package manager of choice for Slackware. It's similar to apt. If you want to build from source, pkgsrc is probably the way to go. If you want GNOME, check out dropline.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: July 15, 2005 at 02:25:18 Pacific
Reply:
You should find swaret in the extras directory on one of your installation CDs. slapt-get is also similar....
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