[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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slackware:package_management [2013/02/20 20:10 (UTC)] – [Brief Explanation of Slackware Packages] Typo fixes alienbob | slackware:package_management [2018/03/03 20:03 (UTC)] (current) – [Brief Explanation of Slackware Packages] tlz means tar.lz since 'Wed Feb 14 19:48:51 UTC 2018' - compressed using lzip alienbob | ||
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Slackware packages can be found with any of the following extensions: | Slackware packages can be found with any of the following extensions: | ||
* tbz - Slackware package archive compressed using bzip2 | * tbz - Slackware package archive compressed using bzip2 | ||
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* tgz - Slackware package archive compressed using gzip | * tgz - Slackware package archive compressed using gzip | ||
* txz - Slackware package archive compressed using xz | * txz - Slackware package archive compressed using xz | ||
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* **swaret** - This tool is designed to replicate the functionality of the Debian apt-get system, you identify the repositories you would like to use and it allows you to download and install packages from the specified location, this tool also attempts dependency resolution. | * **swaret** - This tool is designed to replicate the functionality of the Debian apt-get system, you identify the repositories you would like to use and it allows you to download and install packages from the specified location, this tool also attempts dependency resolution. | ||
* **slapt-get** - This tool is designed to replicate the functionality of the Debian apt-get system, you identify the repositories you would like to use and it allows you to download and install packages from the specified location(s). | * **slapt-get** - This tool is designed to replicate the functionality of the Debian apt-get system, you identify the repositories you would like to use and it allows you to download and install packages from the specified location(s). | ||
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===== Installation Methods ===== | ===== Installation Methods ===== | ||
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