Slackware package management on non-slack system

moreon · 12-10-2000, 11:06 PM

anyone know if you can get slackware package management (installpkg, and all the related utilties) put on a non-slackware system? (its a linux from scratch system im building). I can't find anything anywhere except front-ends to installpkg and stuff..

mathi · 12-11-2000, 02:08 AM

The dir's with source code you can find here:
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware_source
and there's a file README with more info.

jeremy · 12-13-2000, 08:20 PM

I've installed rogue package managers before (rogue being package managers from distos other than the one I was installing on) and you should be OK. The only thing you have to watch out for is that some distros store things in non-standard places, so you may need to edit config files and such after packages are installed. You may get some dependency errors also.