[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.

Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Last revisionBoth sides next revision
slackware:slackpkg [2022/03/25 10:15 (UTC)] mozesslackware:slackpkg [2023/03/07 10:01 (UTC)] mozes
Line 30: Line 30:
      
 Otherwise slackpkg will download and install the current package information and will use that list.\\ Otherwise slackpkg will download and install the current package information and will use that list.\\
 +
 +
 +<note tip>If you have installed Slackware -current (the rolling development branch) you will be presented with a message similar to the following:
 +<code>
 +You have selected a mirror for Slackware -current in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors,
 +but Slackware version 15.0+ appears to be installed.
 +Slackware -current is the development (i.e. unstable) tree.
 +Is this really what you want?
 +</code>
 +
 +This is to be expected and you can proceed. The '+' in the Slackware version number means it's the development cycle //after// 15.0 (in this example) was released.
 +
 +</note>
  
 ==== Blacklisting ==== ==== Blacklisting ====
 slackware:slackpkg ()