Read up how to create a .deb package, reverse it to get the source, then create a Slackware .tgz package - or write a SlackBuild. Easy, huh?

I remember before using src2pkg I used checkinstall, and that utility compiled from source and then gave the option for a debian, slackware, or redhat package.

Although I found this thread quite amusing (especially rworkman's posts. ), the poor guy will probably never come back (yes, I know what you're all thinking regarding that statement).

anoraxis, the people in this forum are generally very polite and extremely helpful. However, if someone does not do their research and asks a question like this, you can clearly see the response you'll get. A search for "slackware .deb" on Google returned this as a first result and this as a third result. A search of these Slackware forums returned this thread, which has a few possibilities.

HOWEVER, please do not try and use any of them even though they exist. Installing Debian packages or RPMs in Slackware is a VERY, VERY bad practice and will likely lead to more frustration in the end.

Package management, known as software installation in other operating systems, is a topic of contention in the free software world because there is no single standard. Both Debian and Slackware use different approaches toward creating software packages. In other words the packages created for one operating system cannot be used directly in the other.

However, packages basically are compressed files with a few twists specific to each operating system. Therefore installing a Debian package is possible by uncompressing the package and then reassembling the separate components into a Slackware package.

I found a shell script that will perform that function.

Before using that shell script consider using www.slackbuilds.org and www.slacky.eu to search for packages already built for Slackware. The former does not provide pre-built packages and the latter does. There also is www.linuxpackages.net, but often those packages are not accompanied with the original build script, which raises trust issues for some users.

ok people, this was not a joke (when it starts)

i wanted to install .deb packages on slackware just because i have .deb packages.

the same trouble appears when i'm trying to install .tgz on ubuntu.

in school we use ubuntu (i dislike) with a good repository but in home i use slackware, but i haven't where to find slackware packages.

Hello anoraxis,

The best you can (should) do, is to look at slackbuilds.org if there is a suitable slackbuild script suitable for your needs. Also, take your time to read about the usage of slackbuilds while your at it. It´s also a very good way to find out about dealing with dependencies!

Second, a search on google like "packagename.slackbuild" or just ".slackbuild" can give you many good sources to finding packages (but most often you will end up at slackbuilds.org anyway, doing that...).

Doing this, you will soon be able to make your own builds. Or at least be capable of customize existing dito.

Jan C.

Slackbuilds.org

Slacky.eu

Linuxpackages.net

Hi annoraxis - I hope you took all the comments with good humour !

Check out Slackbuilds,Alien Bob's repository,Robby Workman's packages and possibly even Slacky.eu - the Italian Slackware community.

There are plenty of other good sources but these spring to mind. Onebuck has a page of useful links here as well.

Hola, you can search for packages here: http://packages.slackware.it/ or a mirror close to you: http://slackware.com/getslack/
Ask if you need more help, hope it helps.

what are 'u talking about?

download packages from the internet??? jajajjaa i have a limited access to the internet, and download anything is a big trouble.

But you manage to post here alright.

Where did you think you were going to get packages if not the internet ? I get the impression you are having a joke here and possibly this could be seen as trolling.

What are YOU talking about? This is the first time you've mentioned the internet as a possible barrier. Are we supposed to be mind readers? 99.9% of the users on this forum, in your situation, would download the packages from one of the sources mentioned above and install the package (using `installpkg packagename`). You seem to be in the 0.1% of users that have limited internet access and refuse to download these (fairly small) packages, and you're calling US crazy because we didn't know that without you having to tell us?

How were you getting the packages for Ubuntu (or Debian...I can't remember which one you are using at school)? Downloading them? Because there isn't really another way unless you have a massive offline repository of packages somehow -- but those would get outdated pretty quickly. If you have internet access at your school that you are downloading the .deb packages with, could you not just download Slackware packages instead? HOW are you getting the .deb packages in the first place if you can't use your internet to download them?

You seriously need to learn to ask questions more effectively. You are leaving out large and apparently important pieces of information and expecting us to already know about these problems. Language is not an excuse here -- leaving out information has nothing to do with what language you speak. Please try to explain your problem more fully so we can help you. Otherwise, I think you're stuck, because no one is going to be able (or want) to help you if the circumstances keep changing, requiring a whole new solution to your problem.

Fidel & Raul control your Internet access?

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