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From: Ryan Mann <rmann@rmisp.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under slackware
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:51:45 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311281148230.6804@rmnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0311281618450.2844@sebagqbbe.gwsvfure.pb.hx>

There is also a program called Swaret that will download packages from
Slackware's FTP site and install them. It's in the extra sub directory of
slackware/extra.


On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Are you referring to the upgradepkg tool that was introduced in 9.0,
> > or is this something  even better?
>
> That was one element of it, but there was a dependancy tracker introduced,
> written in Bash I believe.  I found it by looking around in the tree of
> slack 9.1, as I recall.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Gregory Nowak
 ` Jacob Schmude
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Alex Snow
       ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Toby Fisher
           ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Toby Fisher
               ` slackware package management, was: " Gregory Nowak
                 ` Toby Fisher
                   ` Ryan Mann [this message]
                     ` Gregory Nowak
                       ` Steve Holmes
           ` Kenny Hitt
         ` Alex Snow
           ` Scott Berry
             ` Alex Snow
   ` Toby Fisher
 ` Alex Snow
   ` Christopher Moore

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