[wellylug] Slackware packages

Ian Beardslee itb at falcons.co.nz
Fri Sep 14 20:30:24 NZST 2007


I was a starter with Slackware ... moved onto Redhat, back to Slackware
and now to Ubuntu.


On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:32 +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Andre et al,
> 
> How do you know what packages you have, and how do you know what 
> packages are available for Slack? How do you know that a package needs 
> updating?
> 
> Is it purely manual using pkgtool, installpkg and so on?
> 
> I'm looking to update my Slack installation (which lives in a VM on my 
> Ubuntu machine) after getting interested after conversation with Andre here.
> 
> How many people started with Slackware many many years ago and moved on 
> to other distros?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
> 
> 





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