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Is there an equivalent to apt-get update && upgrade or do you need to track down each source/binary to keep things secured ?
by johnchristopher 11y ago
Is there an equivalent to apt-get update && upgrade or do you need to track down each source/binary to keep things secured ?
- morb 11y agoslackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade-all. See http://slackpkg.org/documentation.html http://slackpkg.org/documentation.html. slackpkg is a part of Slackware, installed by default. If you really like apt, you can use slapt-get (and slapt-src) http://software.jaos.org/ http://software.jaos.org/. After answering this f. question with the same f. answer for literally 10 years, I'm starting to feel that some kind of re-branding would be a good thing for Slackware. It doesn't matter what Slackware is, it matters what people think it is. And what they think it is isn't really what it is. It's a reasonable distro. Anyways, I recommend you give it a shot. See the README files, and http://docs.slackware.com/ http://docs.slackware.com/. And have fun.
- ktRolster 11y agoIt's a reasonable distro. And actually quite a pleasure to use, it is cleanly built.
- johnchristopher 11y agoThanks, I'll spin a VM with it. Indeed some rebranding for slackware may be a good idea since its reputation suffers from misconceptions and outdated irrelevant truths.
- 5ilv3r 11y agoYou download the new package (or rsync the whole tree) then run installpkg on it.