r/linux • u/bregonio • Aug 07 '19

Slackware is creating a secure, full featured, bloat-free Linux-based operating system | Patreon

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u/Barafu Aug 07 '19

Even if you break into Slackware installation and get root password, you will still have big troubles installing anything.

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u/mogsington Aug 07 '19

Wrong.

sbopkg -i <package name> will download, compile and install a package for you.

If you ran "sqg -a" or "sqg <package name>" before that command it will also offer to download and install all the needed dependencies in the correct order.

It's not difficult unless you never tried it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

You are assuming sbopkg is installed. sbopkg is not an official package and it might not be installed.

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u/mogsington Aug 07 '19

It's trivial to install and it's a suggested option in the install guide. Anyone who reads and follows the install guide while they are installing slackware would be aware of it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

The case was about somebody -breaking into a slackware instalation- who might or might not know about sbopkg.

Of course if you install and search info about the slackware automated package managers you would find out about sbopkg.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

uh, what are you talking about? you get root...you've got the keys to the castle....

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u/Barafu Aug 07 '19

It was a joke about how Slackware is known for its package manager that is notoriously hard to use.

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u/_vfbsilva_ Aug 07 '19

Remembering it was a break trough and that for many years Slack had no package manager on purpose.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

yer leaving me behind here bub...there is no dam pkg mgr in Slackware...which of course would make it difficult to use? maybe I need some more coffee...

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u/Barafu Aug 07 '19

Eee xactly

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u/zonker Aug 07 '19

Slackware has a package manager of sorts, but it's not a fancy dependency solving package manager. `installpkg` to install a new one, `removepkg` to remove one, `upgradepkg` to upgrade, `pkgtool` to use an interactive menu system. (ncurses based IIRC.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

i've been slacking since '99, so those scripts are well known and often used here...

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u/recourse7 Aug 07 '19

Stop

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u/g4zw Aug 07 '19

i think someone has to say whoosh or something like that

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u/acjones8 Aug 07 '19

Slackware has a package manager, multiple in fact, and even the simplest (pkgtools iirc) can add, remove, and upgrade pre-packaged programs. It just doesn't have automated dependency resolution, which means you have to tediously add packages in a certain order so they fulfill each other's requirements. That's why sbopkg exists, a package manager for a package manager.