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Subject: Re: slackware package management, was: Re: gnome problems under
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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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