On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600 begin Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> On Monday 01 July 2002 05:42, Collins wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:05:53 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > Collins wrote: > > > >Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of > > > >something with a database of installed packages, of course. > > > > > > I thought that was 'pkgtool'. Am I mislead again? > > > As root in a terminal type 'pkgtool' and have a look > > > around the installed packages. > > > > I don't think you're mislead, but I'm looking for something other > > than the standard Slack offering, since that only accounts for Slack > > packages, and there aren't Slack packages for a lot of stuff. > > There's always linuxmafia.org for Slackware stuff, you'll find quite a > bit there. IIRC, doesn't installwatch handle building slackware .tgz > packages? It's been a few months since I used Slack extensively as I've > been focusing on Red Hat for the very reasons M. Hipp gave at the start > of this thread. You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB. Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.