It comes as a tz package that you install Installing sbotools is rather simple if you’re use to installing Programs, another to search for them and one to install new You have a tool to initialize and fetch the latest list of packages,Īnother to check to see if you need to update your locally installed The sbotools package is not a single program but a collection ofĪbout a half a dozen programs that work very much like the BSD ports. Try figuring out what went wrong but looking at the build logs or by It asks you if you wish to continue or quit. One in the order required and installs them. Source code from wherever it needs to and compiles the packages one by Responses are required, sbotools downloads the Slackbuilds and the Once you are done selecting your package and providing whatever Just a simpleĬonsole program which is handy if you’re using a headless Now all of this is done in the console, which is another thing that I Has optional parameters it asks you if you want to see them and gives Prompts you if you want to install it or not. Want to install and for each one, displays what it is, what it does, and When you use sbotools it finds the dependencies for the software you Pkgtools, the interface will be more or less familiar to anyone familiar So you can find more information about it in his review.Īs sbotools is highly influenced by FreeBSD’s ports system and its List of dependencies without letting the user know what they are and Package manager run amuck and automatically select and install a full Is installing packages that you choose to install and not letting the So what’s the big deal? Well, one of the points of running Slackware Management in its package manager is a real pain in the backside. But the lack of a distribution that didn’t have dependency With Slackware it was always the (lack of) aĭecent package management system. Maybe it was the default colors (Ubuntu, come on withĪll of that orange stuff), choice of default software, difficulty with Was never really happy with something about the distribution that I wasĬurrently using. One of the reasons why I was doing so much hopping around is that I
Please)…Slackware! Yeah, I’ve come full circle.
Then Fedora for quite a while until I finally settled on…(drum roll Turbo Linux, Mandrake, Red Hat, Ubuntu, multiple Ubuntu derivatives, Slackware was the first Linux distribution that I ever used but I wasĪlways curious and did a lot of distro-hopping from Slackware, Caldera,
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