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Was this information helpful? Training and Tutorials. The options for Slackpkg are this was extracted from the official —help document : slackpkg — version 2.
Good to keep the house in order slackpkg upgrade-all sync all packages installed in your machine with the selected mirror. Blacklisted packages cannot be upgraded, installed, or reinstalled by slackpkg slackpkg download Only download do not install a package slackpkg info package Show package information works with only ONE package slackpkg search file Search for a specific file in the entire package collection slackpkg new-config Search for new configuration files and ask to user what to do with them.
To successfully run the update functions you would want to run the following command in order: slackpkg update, slackpkg upgrade-all, slackpkg install-new, slackpkg clean system. These command are pretty self explanatory, update the changelog, update all packages that have upgrades available this prompts a menu allowing you to deselect specific packages , install new packages this also directs you to a menu and clean system which removes packages that are no longer part of the official Slackware package tree.
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The installation did not offer to create a user account. You should remember the root password, which you set at the very end of the installation procedure. So now what? Root is meant for system maintenance and configuration, software upgrades and the like. The first thing to do is create a fresh user account for yourself, without the root privileges.
There is a lot that you can do with Slackware! Let's start with the basics. The first thing you will need to do is create your own non-root user account. There are two ways you can do this, both from the console.
The recommended way is to use Slackware's own interactive adduser script, thus:. Read the user management page for more detail on the adduser script. You can use the non-interactive standard Linux program useradd too:.
Log out of the root account type logout at the root prompt and then login using the new account you just created. Now come the really interesting adventures! Slackware's installer is English-only and it will also assume that English is the language in which you want to be addressed by the programs on your computer. Now that you have Slackware running, you should consider spending a bit of time caring for your computer's good health.
The software which was installed as part of the Slackware release you are running, may develop vulnerabilities over time. When those vulnerabilities are critical to the health of your computer, then Slackware will usually publish a patched version of the software package. You have various options in order to keep your Slackware installation up-to-date. It's not advised to make the process of applying security updates fully automatic, but it is possible to do so using a cron job.
Your best option is to use slackpkg , which is a package manager on top of Slackware's own pkgtools. Before you can use slackpkg you will need to define an online mirror from which it will download updates to your computer. Open the file in a text editor such as nano or vi and uncomment a single mirror URL.
Make sure that the URL mentions the release number for the version of Slackware you are running! Also, pick a mirror which is close to you or of which you know it is fast. When you have done that, you need to initialize slackpkg's database by running. You will need to update the slackpkg database from time to time, when you learn about the availability of new patches for your distribution. After updating the database you can let it download and install the updates.
Again, see the slackpkg page for guidelines about the use of this tool. The slackpkg update command will connect to a Slackware mirror and update the local package information database on your computer. This command does not actually install any package! The usual routine for upgrading your Slackware to the latest patches is as follows:. The Slackware Essentials book has a chapter about keeping up to date. It would be good if you read it now if you have not done so already. The script uses a couple of defaults which you may want to change to suit your environment - such as the location where the script will download the patches to.
Simply run the script once, and see what it reports:. You notice that you will have to edit the script and define a local directory and create that directory too! When that is done, you should run the script once - for a first-time download of patches. Then you can use cron to run the script once a day. For instance, schedule the script to run at every day, and let it check for updates to the bit version of Slackware Open the crontab editor by typing.
This command will be executed silently meaning you will not get emailed if no new patches are found. However when the script finds updates it will download them and email you the script's output. You will get an email like this:. And then you know you have to update slackpkg and make it install the latest patches.
This gives you control over your updates you decide when you update while being automatically warned about the availability of new patches which will already have been downloaded for you. If you installed the network packages, then at the end of the Slackware installation, you will have been asked a couple of simple questions, like:.
If you want to read in more detail about how to configure your network, have a look at this online comprehensive guide to networking in Slackware. On the assumption that you configured your wired connection with netconfig , your network should be connected automatically without the need for any post-installation configuration.
Most common wireless hardware is supported by Linux these days. You can search online if your wireless hardware is supported by 3rd parties that have written Linux drivers. If you want to know if your computer recognizes your wireless card, simply run. You can read a lot more about it in this wireless configuration guide. There is also the man page:.
Unencrypted wireless connections are strongly discouraged.
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