2014-05-11 18:46 GMT-03:00 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:

Interesting about the use of an apt-get variant... does it have the ability to do things like debian-based distros so something like "apt-get build-dep inkscape" would pull down the dependencies? You would need to have the source repos enabled for build-dep to work.

The only inheritance slapt-get got from apt-get was its name.

The tool only merges the assorted tools to manage packages in Slackware (installpkg, removepkg, ...) and fetch the packages from the net for me. Slackware doesn't even do dependency management (you have to do it manually).

This tool only saves me the time to search and download packages from the Slackware server.

Also, what about the package names, are those debian-like too? So in Ubuntu (probably not quite the same in slack, but could be similar), numpy is python-numpy, gsl is libgsl0-dev and libgsl0ldbl, libxml is python-lxml, and gtkmm is libgtkmm-2.4-dev and libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a.

There is the regex-powered search functionality within the slapt-get tool, but not all of these packages are available.

John may have enabled some repo other than the official[1] to install these packages. Or maybe he compiled all the missing packages. I'd like to read a reply from him, because I'm unaware of the preferred/usual installation method for Slackware users.

[1] http://packages.slackware.com/

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