If you’re not familiar with the sudo command, see the Linux Users and Groups guide.
If you are logged in as the root use (not recommended), you can omit the sudo prefix if desired. Some commands in this guide require elevated privileges and are prefixed with the sudo command. Review the Setting Up and Securing a Compute Instance guide for assistance on creating and securing a standard user account. Login credentials to the system for either the root user (not recommended) or a standard user account (belonging to the sudo group) and the ability to access the system through SSH or Lish. Review the Creating a Compute Instance guide if you do not yet have a compatible system. Before You Beginīefore running the commands within this guide, you will need:Ī system running Slackware.
For less interactive tasks, there are installpkg, upgradepkg, and removepkg. Slackware includes pkgtool for local package management and slackpkg for remote installation of packages from official mirrors. These scripts have been adopted as a community standard by such sites as, which provides many common third-party packages not available in Slackware proper. Packages can also be built using SlackBuilds, shell scripts that compile source or repackage binary distribution packages for easy installation and removal on Slackware. Slackware packages do not offer dependency resolution information this is generally viewed as allowing more flexibility and control. This format includes a complete filesystem layout, as well as additional scripts to be run upon installation or removal of the software.
These tarballs can be recognized by their suffixes. Packages in Slackware Linux are distributed as compressed tarballs, generally using gzip or lzma compression.
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