any recent books recommended for slackware.

i am a long term debian user who needs a more up-to-date version of zope -
i installed slackware 10 ok but would like to read a book on slackware to
get up to speed,

kev

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:50:58 +0100,
kev <deeval_oper@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> any recent books recommended for slackware.

Slackware Linux Essentials is a good read although it's slightly
out-of-date: <http://www.slackware.com/book>

There is a project that is updating the book. It has some updated
chapters as well as some new ones: <http://slackbook.lizella.net>

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Mark Hill wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:50:58 +0100,
> kev <deeval_oper@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> any recent books recommended for slackware.
>
> Slackware Linux Essentials is a good read although it's slightly
> out-of-date: <http://www.slackware.com/book>
>
> There is a project that is updating the book. It has some updated
> chapters as well as some new ones: <http://slackbook.lizella.net>
>

thanks,

i did see that one but thought it was a bit thin for slackware newbies.

for instance - how do i install a package? where are they?

kev

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:03:38 +0100,
kev <deeval_oper@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
[ Slackware Linux Essentials ]
>
> thanks,
> i did see that one but thought it was a bit thin for slackware newbies.
> for instance - how do i install a package? where are they?

There is a little bit about package installation here:
<http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=x4000.html>
However, maybe that's a bit terse for newbies.

Slackware packages are installed with Slackware's installpkg. Packages
end with *.tgz and will look like something like this:
gzip-1.3.3-i386-2.tgz
or
pan-0.14.2.91-i486-1.tgz
(i.e: name-version-architecture-package_version_number )

To use installpkg, you can type:
installpkg pan-0.14.2.91-i486-1.tgz

Alternatively, if you're /upgrading/ an existing package on your system,
you can type:
upgradepkg pan-0.14.2.91-i486-1.tgz

The packages can be found in the directories under the 'slackware'
directory on the installation CD, or on any Slackware mirror. There are
also extra packages on the 'extra' CD and on linuxpackages.net.

When you're downloading things from the 'net, it's worth bearing in mind
that the .tgz extention is not exclusive to Slackware packages. It may
be a source tarball you're downloading, which you'll have to untar and
compile. There's more about untaring here:
<http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=x3505.html>

--
Mark Hill
Email (Just for Fun):
echo -e "\x6D\x72\x68\x69\x6C\x6C\x40\x67\x6D\
\x61\x69\x6C\x2E\x63\x6F\x6D"

thanks for the pointers - much apreciated,

kev

Mark Hill wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:03:38 +0100,
> kev <deeval_oper@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
> [ Slackware Linux Essentials ]
>>
>> thanks,
>> i did see that one but thought it was a bit thin for slackware newbies.
>> for instance - how do i install a package? where are they?
>
> There is a little bit about package installation here:
> <http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=x4000.html>
> However, maybe that's a bit terse for newbies.
>
> Slackware packages are installed with Slackware's installpkg. Packages
> end with *.tgz and will look like something like this:
> gzip-1.3.3-i386-2.tgz
> or
> pan-0.14.2.91-i486-1.tgz
> (i.e: name-version-architecture-package_version_number )
>
> To use installpkg, you can type:
> installpkg pan-0.14.2.91-i486-1.tgz
>
> Alternatively, if you're /upgrading/ an existing package on your system,
> you can type:
> upgradepkg pan-0.14.2.91-i486-1.tgz
>
> The packages can be found in the directories under the 'slackware'
> directory on the installation CD, or on any Slackware mirror. There are
> also extra packages on the 'extra' CD and on linuxpackages.net.
>
> When you're downloading things from the 'net, it's worth bearing in mind
> that the .tgz extention is not exclusive to Slackware packages. It may
> be a source tarball you're downloading, which you'll have to untar and
> compile. There's more about untaring here:
> <http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=x3505.html>
>

kev top-posted over 30+ lines of quoted material:

> thanks for the pointers - much apreciated,
>
> kev
>
> Mark Hill wrote:

Please trim your quotes,
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
and don't top post,
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
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"...hit the squirrel..."

I love top posting

Two Ravens wrote:
> kev top-posted over 30+ lines of quoted material:
>
>
>>thanks for the pointers - much apreciated,
>>
>>kev
>>
>>Mark Hill wrote:

oops and middle posting

>
>
> Please trim your quotes,
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
> and don't top post,
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Oh dear I also love bottom posting