The use of Slackware becomes even better once you can start adding application into it. However it wasnt until a good friend of mine introduced me to Slackbuilds.org that I started to see the light. The biggest hurdle for me was learning how to install the apps. So here is a quick intro to it.
Navigate through the site and look for something that you want/need. Once you have found it click and save the downloads from under the “Source Downloads” and “Download SlackBuild:”. Pay attention to where you saved them to by default they get saved to your folder I think. Open a terminal session and transition to root. Then enter
tar zxvf ./”the name of the file from “Download SlackBuild:””
This will create a new folder with the name of the build you are creating/installing. Within the folder will be some files that were dropped there when you uncompressed the file. Now type
mv ./”name of the file from “Source Downloads:” ./”name of the folder that was just created”
Now CD to the new folder
cd “name of the new folder”
Then start the build process for the app install
./”name of the build .SlackBuild”
This will save the install file to the tmp directory so lets move there.
cd /tmp/
Then install the new app that you have created.
installpkg “name of the file created”
I can tell now that I have typed this that I need to do some screen shots to really make this clear so that even a newbie can follow along.
Added: For the flash-plugin http://cnguyenminhtan.free.fr/slackware/13.37/multimedia/flash-player-plugin/ has one that works. I had to exit out of X, then login as root and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ folder. I am running Slack13.37 with Firefox 8.0.1.
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