The fact that it does not resolve dependencies is mentioned here. Initially, I thought that it had dependencies resolution capabilities.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175493466/
Final release of porteus 5.0 provided us with package managers and tools, namely slackpkg, slpkg, pmod and pkginfo.
Porteus-v5.0 is released!
I have tried to work with slackpkg which really interested me a few years ago.
Finding the fastest mirror
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guest@porteus:~$ fastest-mirror
Checking fastest mirror ...
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root@porteus:/home/guest# pkginfo -w slackpkg
Package: slackpkg+-1.8.0-noarch-3mt
located in Module: 001-core.xzm
root@porteus:/home/guest#
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root@porteus:/home/guest# slackpkg update
Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Signatures
2022-10-02 14:10:47 URL:https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-15.0/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.bVxUXj/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc" [1]
etc, etc.
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root@porteus:/home/guest# pmod -u
Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Signatures
2022-10-02 14:24:04 URL:https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-15.0/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.cqGc6h/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc" [1]
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root@porteus:/home/guest# slackpkg search libreoffice
Looking for libreoffice in package list. Please wait... DONE
No package name matches the pattern.
root@porteus:/home/guest# slackpkg search gnumeric
Looking for gnumeric in package list. Please wait... DONE
No package name matches the pattern.
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root@porteus:/home/guest# slackpkg search amp
Looking for amp in package list. Please wait... DONE
The list below shows all packages with name matching "amp".
[inst] slackware64 : libsamplerate-0.2.2-x86_64-1
[unin] slackware64 : amp-0.7.6-x86_64-5
You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".
root@porteus:/home/guest# slackpkg search mozilla
Looking for mozilla in package list. Please wait... DONE
The list below shows all packages with name matching "mozilla".
[inst] slackware64 : mozilla-nss-3.74-x86_64-1
[unin] patches : mozilla-firefox-102.3.0esr-x86_64-1_slack15.0
[unin] patches : mozilla-thunderbird-102.3.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0
[mask] slackware64 : mozilla-firefox-91.5.1esr-x86_64-1
[mask] slackware64 : mozilla-thunderbird-91.5.1-x86_64-1
You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".
https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware ... slackware/
Is it possible to get additional repositories in there: alien, salix... ??
What do you think? (rych, beny... ... all of you)
Thanks for comments.