Hello all,
I am fairly ne to linux and Slackware. I started using Gentoo awhile ago and decided to start playing around with other distro's to learn. My question is....

In Gentoo to can use the command 'emerge -sync' and it will update your system. Is there such a tool for Slackware?

Thanks

And the answer is....................... no.
At least, there are no official tools to update the system, you can do it "by hand" by getting packages from -current, or using some third party tool like slackpkg, slapt-get or swaret.

You may want to read: http://slackbook.org/html/security-current.html and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=376470
Maybe this one too, http://slackbook.org/html/package-management.html

emerge would just make slackware too easy.... pkgtool as it is, almost disgusts me eh...

As previously stated, there are third party tools to upgrade your Slackware Linux system from version N to version N+1. However, the official upgrade of a Slackware Linux system is explained in the UPGRADE.TXT file (you can find it on the first installation CD-ROM).

Note that the best solution is to install the latest stable Slackware Linux on a formatted disk partition. That's how I proceed each time a new Slackware version is released. I have two 5Gb parititons dedicated to Slackware Linux : let's call them A and B. On the A disk partition, I have Slackware Linux N. To switch to Slackware Linux N+1, I install it on the B disk partition : it allows me to keep old configuration files on A while configuring the newly installed Slackware Linux on B. The next time a new, stable Slackware Linux is released, I install it on A and keep the old Slackware Linux system on B. And so on.

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slackpkg in extra is great.