The Slackware AUR: Installing Software Using Slackbuilds

Slackware and Slackbuilds are a partnership that many Slackware users rely on. Slackbuilds.org is similar to the AUR that Arch Linux enjoys, but for some reason we don't hear that much about it.
Just like the AUR, Slackbuilds.org gives Slackware users access to a vast quantity of packages and in many ways it is similar in how a user manages it. Build scripts can be downloaded from the repo and used to compile source code, or we can use helper programmes such as
sbopkg and sbotools to automate the process - and even include dependency checking.
In this video I take you through how I use slackbuilds to add packages to my system.
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[@ajax321]

This and your previous Slackware videos are the BEST on KZbin. Been with Slackware for a few months and it's a very comfy distro. Thanks for making these guides OTB.

[@OldTechBloke]

You’re welcome 😁

[@smilingcatonlinux5998]

i hope everything is good - I always enjoy your content . I wish you the best ✌and greetings from the continent (vienna)

[@christos2361]

Thank you! thank you, thank you. For all your Slackware video.... you make my life better! Bravo!!!

[@trueriver1950]

No 3 😊 I helped maintain a Slackware webserver back in the nineties. Didn't convert me from Debian on my own systems but in fairness it was straightforward to use once you tuned in to the Slack way of doing things.

[@Open__Source]

Thank you very much for this nice explanation. Just my notes on sbopkg So that it can be used well to automatically recognize dependencies in two ways 1 from the command line and here is an example: sudo sbopkg -i maypaint A line will appear saying there are dependencies Both a queuefile and a package were found with the name "mypaint". Here we will print Q And the program will continue to install the dependencies first and then the program mypaint 2 The second method is through the graphical interface of sbopkg # sqg -a (It will take some time) # sudo sbopkg From the menu choose Manage the queue Then Load a saved queue Look for mypaint Then view the current queue You will find that the program prints all "mypaint" dependencies And therefore process the current queue

[@pacifiedherbicide]

Your series on Slackware have been absolutely essential to getting me up and running and accomplishing tasks using Slackware. I cannot thank you enough, you are the best.

[@lerssilarsson6414]

Oh those were the days back in the mid 90s. My Belinea 17" CRT emitted sounds like a pinball machine while installing Slackware. ;-)

[@jirikuchar4088]

New Slackware fan thanks to your videos, OTB!

[@valeriocasone8441]

Always the best 🙂

[@rdglinux]

Very good! SBOTools is awesome 👍 Thanks for the great video! Cheers from Brazil.

[@achilles6568]

another great video otb :) thank you

[@dreamyuki]

Good video as always

[@peterdambier]

Many thanks for the video. The thing that burnt my fingers (current) was gcc. I was not only installing but writing Slackbuilds as well. gcc is a mess and breaking lots of things with every upgrade. For the moment I am back on 14.2 and 32 bits because of a messy brother printer and scanner driver. Interestingly enough only Slackware is able to use printer and scanner at all. Nondisclosured driver malware ...

[@dougtilaran3496]

Hang on a second young man. I need to call sid 😇 I used Vector back in 1958..mmm mighta been 1998. Nice. But I got over it

[@taidee]

Cool, it looks like Slackware doesn't need slackers though. Thank you again OTB.

[@SajjadRizvi77]

If you're running stable releases, you can certainly set it up once, sit back and slack for a few years.

[@tintindb]

Around 2010 I was running vector Linux which apparently is based on slack. I spent many hours on slackbuilds. It was a bit hit or miss. I might try some of your ideas. Thanks.

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

HahAhA! It's your videos make all the Slackware videos you want... Lol Me, I don't care as long as it's a OTB video... :-P I had a question but you answered it at the end about wheres the WM's... :-) Good luck on the Polybar issue and getting it running... Thanks for the video! LLAP Lol... Nope conversion is not working yet, but good try... :-P

[@OldTechBloke]

Ha ha, cheers Bruce

[@modzel408]

Regards from Poland . Any chance for tutorial 'how install steam on slackware" or something about BSD. Thx

[@fredfishel7071]

It’s now a few weeks later and things change. Slackware 15 was released and your videos got me to set up a Slackware 15 VM in Parallels on my Mac. It needed fiddling to set up the drive to recognize EFI 64 but Slackware 15 installed easily so I moved on to your video on multilib access but the next video on Slackbuilds and SBO Tools things were different. I installed SBO tools 1.9 from Slackbuilds. but I went to use the fetch command I got an error that Slackware 15 is not supported. I tried to set the repo to use the Ponce repository but Slack config 1.9 does not support the -r command. I did a little searching on Google but didn’t really find any advice on how to set up SBO tools to work with Slackware 15 but I assume that SBO tools will be updated to support it. I don’t mind waiting I’ll just watch more of your videos.

[@OldTechBloke]

Sbotools is at version 2.7 not 1.9? Now that slackbuilds.org has caught up with 15 you just need to put the version of Slackware in the sboconfig file

[@fredfishel7071]

@@OldTechBloke Thanks! I got the 2.7 version and all is well

[@StephenSE9]

5:35 Hahahahahahaha Sorry, P, if you're reading this.

[@MatteoBernardini70]

LOL

[@trueriver1950]

All three of Steve's tutorials on Slack 15 are in this playlist of mine kzbin.info/aero/PLKD3-VuBUskN_NIxBNU_DrFM45DAutQUx

[@itsfish8672]

I think i would just load a basic arch install OTB. Or more keen on a void linux.

[@stevekivimagi1569]

Very Interesting video but definitely not for me.