slackman

SlackMan - Slackware Package Manager

SlackMan is easy-to-use wrapper for Slackware pkgtools can help to install, update Slackware packages from a standard Slackware repository (official and 3th party).

Features

• Multiple repository support
• Dependency resolution
• Bash Completion support
• More configurable
• Flexible configuration via variables
• DBus interface
• Userspace DBus client to notify update & changelogs (via org.freedesktop.Notification)
• ... and more

Installation

INSTALL.md file provide instructions on how to install SlackMan.

Supported Repository

SlackMan support different SlackWare repository including:

• Slackware stable and -current
• SlackOnly
• Slackers (Conraid)
• Slacky (Italian Slackware Community)
• AlienBob
• ktown (KDE5)
• Cinnamon SlackBuilds
• MATE SlackBuilds
• Salix
• Microlinux
• ... and more

Examples

Update repository packages and upgrade all packages:

# slackman update && slackman upgrade -y

Install, update and remove obsolete packages from specific repository:

# slackman update
# slackman install --new-packages --repo ktown
# slackman upgrade --repo ktown
# slackman remove --obsolete-packages --repo ktown

Update package excluding kernels packages

# slackman upgrade --exclude kernel-*

Search package:

# slackman search docker

Search file using MANIFEST.bz2 repository file (slackman update manifest):

# slackman file-search firefox

Enable a repository:

# slackman repo enable slackware:multilib

Add new repository:

# slackman repo add http://slackware.com/pub/slackman/repos.d/slackware.repo

Display the ChangeLog:

# slackman changelog --repo slackware:packages

Bash Completion:

# slackman repo info sla<TAB><TAB>
slackware:extra        slackware:multilib     slackware:packages
slackware:pasture      slackware:patches      slackware:testing

Copyright

• Copyright 2016-2017 © Giuseppe Di Terlizzi
• Slackware® is a Registered Trademark of Patrick Volkerding
• Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds