[PLUG] Slackware 8.0 and dependencies?

[patrick.t.finnegan.1]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, ryan.j.bochenek.1 wrote:

> I figured hey...I'm bored...took all my tests already, so I might as well
> try a new OS.  I decided might as well go w/ Slackware after running
> freebsd  for  the good part of a year.  Anyway, I'm trying to install
> things and get a  million dependency errors.  Maybe pkg_add -rv <pkgname>
> was a little too kind...is there anything like this for Slack or do I get
> to manually hunt them down and install them?  I installed the full install
> (if this makes any difference).

Dependencies?? If you're tring to use RPM you wont get something to work
too well... Slackware uses its own packaging system that is a bit more
...er... primitive.  You can use rpm2tgz to convert an rpm into a gzipped
tar file, and then use 'installpkg' on it or extract it to a temp dir and
copy things where you want them to go.  Anywas for most things i use that
slack doesnt have I just download and compile and install from a tarball.

-- Pat

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