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Re: How do you install Slackware

From	Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject	Re: How do you install Slackware
Date	2023-03-16 06:45 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:16:21 -0400, bad sector wrote:
> The idea would be that NOTHING would get installed that wasn't
> *directly or indirectly*

There are other Linux distributions which have different kinds of package 
management solutions which includes dependency resolution. Slackware 
package management does not have dependency resoltion. If you think you 
know what you are doing you can manually select packages during 
installation but the recomended way to install is to do a full install.

Then there are third party repositories for Slackware like 
slackbuilds.org which together with different tools offer dependency 
resolution for their third party packages. However, all those dependency 
resolutions only apply to the third party packages, they all assume that  
you have made a full install of Slackware.

For good and bad Slackware does not have dependency resolution. What 
would be the best way to upgrade or remove package X on which package Y 
depends? Even with the dependency resolution from third party package 
providers like slackbuilds.org it can quickly become a mess. Suppose that 
you install package Y which depends upon package X. Two years later you 
install package Z which also depends upon package X, but requires a newer 
version of package X. To get package Z you will need to compile and 
install a newer version of package X, but this will break package Y. If 
you are lucky you might be able to recompile and reinstall package Y, if 
you are unlucky your package Y is not compatible with the newer version 
of package X.

With the original Slackware packages we know that they will allways match 
each other. If a package is provided as a upgraded security patch any 
other package which needs to be recompiled will also be provided from 
Slackware.

regards Henrik

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How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2023-03-14 08:54 +0000
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware David Robley <david@me.invalid> - 2023-03-14 20:30 +1030
    Re: How do *you* install Slackware John Forkosh <ian@moone.com> - 2023-03-14 11:32 +0000
      Re: How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2023-03-14 22:39 +0000
        Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jimmy Johnson <Jimmy@disposable.invalid> - 2023-03-14 22:33 -0700
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-03-14 14:28 +0000
    Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@ns.sympatico.ca> - 2023-03-14 11:58 -0300
      Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-14 19:11 +0000
      Re: How do *you* install Slackware Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2023-03-15 01:19 -0300
        Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@jdvb.ca> - 2023-03-17 17:14 -0300
          Re: How do *you* install Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-18 10:37 +0000
          Re: How do *you* install Slackware Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-03-18 16:06 +0000
            Re: How do *you* install Slackware Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-03-18 17:39 +0000
            Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@jdvb.ca> - 2023-03-20 16:09 -0300
              Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-20 22:00 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@jdvb.ca> - 2023-03-22 17:47 -0300
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jimmy Johnson <Jimmy@disposable.invalid> - 2023-03-22 18:20 -0700
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-23 06:44 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@jdvb.ca> - 2023-03-25 15:37 -0300
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jimmy Johnson <Jimmy@disposable.invalid> - 2023-03-25 15:24 -0700
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-26 04:21 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jimmy Johnson <Jimmy@disposable.invalid> - 2023-03-25 23:18 -0700
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-26 15:50 +0000
              Re: How do *you* install Slackware Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-03-20 22:39 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Jim Diamond <JimDiamond@jdvb.ca> - 2023-03-22 17:42 -0300
              Re: How do *you* install Slackware republicanismiscancer@tutanota.com (TronNerd82) - 2024-12-16 01:30 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Gilberto F da Silva <gfs1989@gmx.net> - 2026-07-30 18:17 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-08-03 06:19 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-08-03 11:19 -0400
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-14 14:57 +0000
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Silvenshadow <bogus@mail.com> - 2023-03-14 10:21 -0700
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2023-03-14 17:34 +0000
    Re: How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2023-03-14 22:24 +0000
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-15 06:36 +0000
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@INVALID.net> - 2023-03-15 08:16 -0400
    Re: How do *you* install Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-16 06:45 +0000
      Re: How do *you* install Slackware Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2023-03-16 20:40 +0000
        Re: How do *you* install Slackware Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2023-04-08 09:43 +0000
          Re: How do *you* install Slackware maus@smaus.org - 2023-04-08 11:47 +0000
            Re: How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-04-08 23:05 +1000
              Re: How do *you* install Slackware maus@smaus.org - 2023-04-08 14:40 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-04-08 14:48 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-04-14 22:10 +1000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-04-14 13:04 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware maus <maus@dmany.org> - 2023-04-14 13:21 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-05-21 18:02 +1000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-05-21 17:47 +1000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-04-14 21:59 +1000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Ferannia <ferannia@invalid.com> - 2023-06-06 12:17 -0700
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> - 2023-06-06 19:40 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Ferannia <ferannia@invalid.com> - 2023-06-06 13:01 -0700
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> - 2023-06-07 01:10 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2023-06-07 01:22 -0400
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware slash <slash@invalid.invalid> - 2023-06-07 16:34 +0200
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@invalid.org> - 2023-06-07 15:55 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware slash <slash@invalid.invalid> - 2023-06-08 11:33 +0200
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2023-06-08 06:49 -0400
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware slash <slash@invalid.invalid> - 2023-06-09 15:58 +0200
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2023-06-09 20:23 -0400
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-06-10 13:15 +1000
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@INVALID.net> - 2023-06-10 13:22 -0400
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2023-06-11 18:49 +1000
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware Erte Ribbile <erteribbile@sfracel.li> - 2023-06-12 08:17 +0200
                Re: {OT} How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <nomail@_invalid.nos.pam> - 2023-06-12 05:33 -0400
            Re: How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@INVALID.net> - 2023-06-02 17:49 -0400
          Re: How do *you* install Slackware Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2023-06-13 20:49 +0000
      Re: How do *you* install Slackware bad sector <forgetski@INVALID.net> - 2023-03-16 20:12 -0400
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2023-03-16 09:57 +1100
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware "K. Venken" <karel.venken@domain.invalid> - 2023-03-16 16:37 +0100
  Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2023-05-01 06:07 +0000
    Re: How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2023-07-01 13:59 +0000
      Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2024-03-22 01:12 +0000
        Re: How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2024-03-26 06:14 +0000
          Re: How do *you* install Slackware "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2024-03-27 18:26 +0000
            Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2024-03-27 17:40 -0400
          Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2024-03-27 21:12 +0000
            Re: How do *you* install Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2024-03-29 20:27 +0000
              Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2024-03-29 23:40 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Luis Mendes <luisXXXlupeXXX@gmail.com> - 2024-04-15 20:27 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2024-04-16 05:49 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Luis Mendes <luisXXXlupeXXX@gmail.com> - 2024-04-16 18:08 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2024-04-19 12:18 +0000
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                Re: How do *you* install Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2024-04-21 14:34 +0000
                Re: How do *you* install Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-04-21 08:50 -0700

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