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With a software package, this has already been done for you. All that you have +to do is install the package. Another handy feature of using software packages is that it +is very easy to remove and upgrade them, if you so desire. Slackware comes with programs +for all your package management needs. You can install, remove, upgrade, make, and +examine packages very easily.</p> + +<p>There's a myth that's been going around ever since RedHat debuted RedHat Package +Manager, that Slackware has no package management tool. This simply couldn't be further +from the truth. Slackware has always included a package manager, even before RedHat +existed. While not as full-featured or as ubiquitous as rpm (or for that matter deb), <tt +class="COMMAND">pkgtool</tt> and its associated programs are every bit as good at +installing packages as rpm. The truth about <tt class="COMMAND">pkgtool</tt> is not that +it doesn't exist, but that it doesn't do any dependency checking.</p> + +<p>Apparently many people in the Linux community think that a packager manager must by +definition include dependency checking. Well, that simply isn't the case, as Slackware +most certainly does not. This is not to say that Slackware packages don't have +dependencies, but rather that its package manager doesn't check for them. Dependency +management is left up to the sysadmin, and that's the way we like it.</p> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-OVERVIEW" +name="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-OVERVIEW">18.1 Overview of Package Format</a></h1> + +<p>Before learning the utilities, you should become familiar with the format of a +Slackware package. In Slackware, a package is simply a tar archive file that has been +compressed with <tt class="COMMAND">gzip</tt>. Packages are built to be extracted in the +root directory.</p> + +<p>Here is a fictitious program and its example package:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +./ +usr/ +usr/bin/ +usr/bin/makehejaz +usr/doc/ +usr/doc/makehejaz-1.0/ +usr/doc/makehejaz-1.0/COPYING +usr/doc/makehejaz-1.0/README +usr/man/ +usr/man/man1 +usr/man/man1/makehejaz.1.gz +install/ +install/doinst.sh +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>The package system will extract this file in the root directory to install it. An +entry in the package database will be created that contains the contents of this package +so that it can be upgraded or removed later.</p> + +<p>Notice the <tt class="FILENAME">install/</tt> subdirectory. This is a special +directory that can contain a postinstallation script called <tt +class="FILENAME">doinst.sh</tt>. If the package system finds this file, it will execute +it after installing the package.</p> + +<p>Other scripts can be embedded in the package, but those are discussed more in detail +in <a href="package-management-making-packages.html#PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-MAKEPKG">Section +18.3.2</a> below.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="emacs-saving-files.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a +href="package-management-package-utilities.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Saving Files</td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Package Utilities</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |