What's New

Slackware 15.0 releases

Late post, but note that builds have been made for the final release. Source is available via git as usual.

Switching to meson

I've ported the builds from autoconf/make to meson. You can find the changes in the meson branch of each of the projects. I am pretty pleased so far and plan to merge these to the main branches soon.

Free Software

slapt-get

slapt-get is an APT like system for Slackware package management. It allows one to search slackware mirrors and third party sources for packages, compare them with installed packages, install new packages, or upgrade all installed packages. slapt-get is great for scripting as well.

Files:

Requires:

Documentation:

gslapt

GSlapt is a GTK frontend to the slapt-get library.

Files:

Requires:

  • slapt-get
  • gtk+3
  • polkit

Documentation:

cpan2tgz

cpan2tgz is a utility to create Slackware packages from CPAN Perl module distributions.

Files:

Requires: (all available at www.cpan.org)

Documentation:

slapt-update-service

slapt-update-service is a DBus service which notifies about package updates available via slapt-get and gslapt. slapt-update-service places an icon in the user's notification area when updates are available. Clicking the icon starts upgrading with gslapt.

Files:

  • No prebuilt packages

Requires:

  • gtk+3
  • dbus-glib
  • gslapt
  • polkit

Documentation:

slapt-src

slapt-src is a utility to make querying, retrieving, and building slackbuilds as easy as working with binary packages with slapt-get.

Files:

Requires:

  • slapt-get

Documentation: