Portage on Slackware

[JunkBondTrader]

Hello, all! I'm downloading the Slackware 10.2 ISO images right now and since Slackware has such a notoriously bad package manager (no dependencies!?) I'll be in need of a good package manager that compiles everything from source like Gentoo's BSD style Portage system. I know there's slapt-get but that too Debianesque for me and I can't stand Debian. Does anyone know how to get Portage (or something similar) to work on Slackware?

Thanks, Felix.

[Blahages]

I've never used Slackware, or tried this, but I did some looking around and found something that's supposed to be a port of Gentoo's Portage for Slackware. I can't tell you how good it works, or even if it works, as I haven't tried it. But, here you go:

http://freaknet.org/alpt/Emerde/

Oh, there's a post about it here: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/misc/8096-emerge-slackware-users.html

Which looks like it has a script that will install it for you.

Debian's apt-get is fun though :) I had Kororaa installed a little while back (Based on Gentoo) and used the Emerge utility. It was okay, but it took forever to update the repository. I managed to find a Gtk frontend for emerge though, so at least I didn't have to mess with Command line if I didn't want to.

I like the new Autopackage thing though. The only bad thing I've seen about it is that not too many programs are being packaged that way yet.

[JunkBondTrader]

Yay! It worked! Thanks, man. I attempted to install Kororaa but it wouldn't boot. Probably something to do with my Celeron. It's pretty innovative to have Xgl in a LiveCD.

[Blahages]

Yay! It worked! Thanks, man. I attempted to install Kororaa but it wouldn't boot. Probably something to do with my Celeron. It's pretty innovative to have Xgl in a LiveCD.

Good to hear it worked.

Should work with a Celeron just fine. Supposedly anything that has SSE, which a Celeron would.

It has more to do with the Video card.

I had issues getting it to boot for a while. I'm not sure why. But, it wouldn't boot on my Desktop with an X800 video card. It would with a Radeon 9600 in my Laptop though.

I have XGL working on Ubuntu now, so I don't need Kororaa. Sure I had it set up to I could install programs fairly easily, but I still like Debian's package manager better. :)

[JunkBondTrader]

I have a Celeron D and I was trying it with an nVidia GeForce FX 5500 but I have a million graphics cards with which I would try it. I also have a Radeon 9600 and another nVidia card. No, I'm not loaded but at my local computer fair they sell good cards for like £15.