Hi:

A site to download slackware packages? I remember there was one but unfortunately I forgot. Would you please point out one to me?

the best one

http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/

and

http://slackfind.net/en/

Our Slackware developers provide packages that are 100% trustworthy.

Robby's packages

Eric's packages

Also check out slackbuilds.org. This site does not host packages, but, it has a vast collection of slack build scripts to build packages. This site is also completely trustworthy.

http://www.slackbuilds.org/

Two more. www.slacky.eu

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-13.1/

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware64-13.1/

That's a lot of sources. Anything wrong with linuxpackages.net?

The mechanism would be that the Slack team provides binary packages to all these sites?

It's all a questions of "whom do you trust". I don't know anything about anyone who makes packages for linuxpackages.net therefore I don't trust or use them.

I trust Eric and Robby.
I can verify slackbuilds.org for myself.
I'd give some established old-hands of this forum such as ponce, dugan, and a few others the benefit of the doubt.
Everyone else is a stranger.

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Agreed. Eric and Robby are completely trustworthy, as is SBo. I never use packages from linuxpackages.net.

Some people think so!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t-down-774436/
http://slackadelic.com/2007/04/11/li...lly-malicious/

The linuxpackage.net site has been dormant for over a year now since Jim Simmons went through a personal crisis.
I never had any major problems with that site, but its usefulness is over

I'm inclined to agree with GazL. Eric and Robbie are trusted by Pat and since I trust him, I can trust them, as well.

I'm a big fan of Slackbuilds.org from the "give a man a fish/teach a man to fish" perspective. You get the software you need/want and maybe you learn a little somthing about versioning, build flags, etc. And as a bonus, you don't have to trust blindly..the build script is there for review.

I don't really use software from beyond those three (or from source) and truthfully, I've not run into a situation lately where I've needed/wanted to.

I've been lurking here for nearly 7 years, but that fact alone doesn't mean you should trust me and I wouldn't expect you to.

Yes, Alien Bob (Eric) I had visited that site. And of course Slackbuilds.org but, in regard to the latter, I've downloaded mplayer, kind of a gigantic program, ran the script and the resulting binary could never play CD-ROMs in a descent way. However, having before compiled the mplayer official site sources, the output was unreproachable. Could be I didn't give configure the right parameters, though. But the configure from the official site did it all by itself. Regards and thanks for the feedback.

If you want to play CDs I'd recommend grip from sbo.

Well, it seems LP.net bashing is en vogue, but I don't quite agree, and some statements in this thread are simply wrong.

1. Slackbuilds.org is excellent, this is not debatable. However, it doesn't always make sense to compile from source. A binary would do. How many of you SBo followers and LP.net bashers did install the sources of LibreOffice? Didn't you just install the re-packaged binary from SBo or Alien Bob's lightning fast, natively compiled packages? Or did you compile yourself? You get the point, I think...

2. LP.net packages are not bad per se. The quality may vary, as there is no quality assurance as with SBo. But none of the packages I got from there has ever caused me any trouble. It certainly depends on the experience and the skills of the packager. Packages made by Ken Zalewski, for example, are quite good, although they don't include a build script.

3. Some packages at LP.net do include a build script, such as Asunder. It's also an example that there are still new packages, although there are no "Latest News". So Jim Simmons may be "dormant", but LP.net is still there. At least, in these cases you have a chance to know what's in the package, before you install it.

4. LP.net still offers Slackware packages not available elsewhere. Again, Asunder is a good example. It is the only repository offering this program as an installable Slackware pacakge, AFAIK. In the past, Ken Zalewski provided a HPLIP package, and generous and helpful support, when I had difficulty to get my old HP Officejet going with it, just like Robby and Eric do so often.

To summarise, it is, IMHO, not justified to completely bash LP.net. It has its weaknesses, but there *are* good packages from skilled packagers at LP.net, too. And don't forget, that it was the first repository offering 3rd party packages for Slackware. Without the LP.net packages for Wine, HPLIP etc. I wouldn't be a Slackware user, today. I don't need these packages, anymore, but they saved the day for me many times in the past.

Although I use slacky.eu and Slackbuilds.org much more often, now, occasionally I am grateful that LP.net is still there, providing a package I need, not available from the others.

gargamel

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I wasn't aware of that. What happened?

Thanks GazL, I appreciate that a lot, really

@dugan: I think davidsrsb is referring to this message on linuxpackages.net.