I'm a bit of a noob to this distro.

After spending about six hours trying to
get the Apache that came on my Slackware disk
to run, I gave up and installed a ...tar.gz
version (without pkgtool or installpkg -- just
the usual [configure/make/make install] mantra).
It blasted off right away without any problems.

So far, so good.
My question: Is doing this
kind of install likely to lead to problems later
on? Is everything in Slackware supposed to be
installed with the provided pkgtool or installpkg?
--
cheers, el m

m wrote:
> So far, so good.
> My question: Is doing this
> kind of install likely to lead to problems later
> on? Is everything in Slackware supposed to be
> installed with the provided pkgtool or installpkg?

no, not at all. many slackers enjoy or prefer compiling from source.

to make later upgrading or removing easier, you may want to google for
checkinstall and/or slacktrack.

--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)

m wrote:

> My question: Is doing this
> kind of install likely to lead to problems later
> on? Is everything in Slackware supposed to be
> installed with the provided pkgtool or installpkg?

Compiling and installing from source should not create any problems. For
convenience and control, a lot of people use checkinstall or some other
tool to create a package when installing from source. It keeps the package
database complete, and makes it easy to uninstall, reinstall, upgrade, etc.

--
Old Man

Old Man wrote:

> m wrote:
>
>> My question: Is doing this
>> kind of install likely to lead to problems later
>> on? Is everything in Slackware supposed to be
>> installed with the provided pkgtool or installpkg?
>
> Compiling and installing from source should not create any problems. For
> convenience and control, a lot of people use checkinstall or some other
> tool to create a package when installing from source. It keeps the
> package database complete, and makes it easy to uninstall, reinstall,
> upgrade, etc.
>

Thanks, Old Man and Joost, I'll find checkinstall and slacktrack.

I'm beginning to like Slack a lot. I never could get Mandrake to
recognize my CDRW in a USB2.0 enclosure, but Slack did it
with a couple of lines of code and the creation of a directory.
--
cheers, el m http://www.mbstevens.com