Adam Morris cried from the depths of the abyss... > What's the current state of package management in Slackware these days? The last time I used it Swaret was the package manager of choice but my understanding is that they got rid of that in a release since then. > It's still the same really with a few new ones (like swaret). One you might be interested is called Slapt-get. It is similar to Deb's APT. I still do things the old fashioned way, but I've heard good things about it. There is a large 3rd party site that provides slack build scripts not included with the distro @ www.slackbuilds.org. Someone has create a package mgmt program for them too called sbopkg. It's not that bad really when it comes to maintenance. > I used to be a real hardcore Slackware user until I fell in love with Debian's package management system. I'd love to go back to my roots, so to speak, but I'm afraid of ending up in a high maintenance OS again. > > -Adam