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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> - |