Usually people are skeptical about Slackware package manager (slackpkg). I thought I'd just throw in some links to alternatives. If you want to try another pack

Usually people are skeptical about Slackware package manager (slackpkg). I thought I'd just throw in some links to alternatives. If you want to try another package manager you can install it and start using it in under one minute. Package manager is a package just like any other :) One is slapt-get [0], supports third party repos, resolves dependencies if you use it with repos that have dependency metadata, if you really really must :) Salix repos are a nice source of extra packages, and have dependency metadata. You'll have to wait a bit for them to upgrade to 14.1. Another nice package manager is slackroll[1]. This one doesn't do dependencies, but has other nice options. For slackuilds (build script repo, like BSD ports) you can use sbopkg [2] or sport [3], both are nice. Have fun. [0] http://software.jaos.org/#slapt-get http://software.jaos.org/#slapt-get [1] http://rg3.github.io/slackroll/ http://rg3.github.io/slackroll/ [2] http://sbopkg.org/ http://sbopkg.org/ [3] http://slackermedia.info/sport/ http://slackermedia.info/sport/ UPDATE: I think there's a lot more to a distro than just a package manager, and these tools might help someone. Of course you'll probably get most stuff you need out of the box, some others from slackbuilds.org. Slackware pkgtools (installpkg, upgradepkg, removepkg) are really simple, manpage for each is under 2 screens of text, and they really get out of the way, and never betray you. Further, init system is classic sysvinit with rc style scripts in /etc/rc.d and it supports normal SysV scripts like other distros, in /etc/init.d. No pulseaudio out of the box (it's available on slackbuilds.org if you want it). You can disable NetworkManager and install WICD from /extra in no time, and it's not gonna magically re-enable itself later.