From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eastrmmtao05.cox.net ([68.230.240.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gxyll-0003Cz-00 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:46:01 -0500 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061223044530.BBWO4144.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:45:30 -0500 Received: from garrettk17.dyndns.org ([74.193.255.236]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 24kE1W00Q56oFbe0000000; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:44:15 -0500 Received: by garrettk17.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 579B158D57; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:45:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:45:26 -0600 From: Garrett Klein To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: help with linux installation Message-ID: <20061223044526.GA11314@garrettk17.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:46:02 -0000 Hello, I believe slapt-get still exists and is current. It's basically apt-get for slackware (with the exception that most of what you want is in third-party packages. Garrett On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:40:08PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Slackware uses a package called swared for package management. The last > release of it was in 2004 but it still does work with slackware 11.0 and > likely will work into the future. If you use that package manager edit > its configuration file and specify 11 for the version or current for the > version you want to maintain on your system before running the package for > the first time and you should be good to go. Other package managers for > slackware did exist but they've fallen by the wayside due to lack of > maintenance. Some of them have hard limits on what version you can > upgrade to built into them believe it or not! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup