Now I won’t explain what’s slackpkg as most of you already know about it and since Slack 12 release it’s bundled with it as it’s main package manager. Now the procedure involves few simple steps and we’ll start right from the beginning:
1. Uncomment a current mirror in slackpkg mirrors file which can be found at /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
2. Now execute ‘slackpkg update‘ which will sync with the current repo
3. Execute ‘slackpkg install-new‘ which will install all the new packages added to the current tree(this has to be executed multiple times in some cases as it will update slackpkg itself and pkgtool and you’ll have to do the first step again if that happens)
4. At this stage you’ve got all the new packages in current tree installed on your system so now it’s time to upgrade all the applications installed on your system to their latest versions present in the current tree and for that execute ‘slackpkg upgrade-all‘ this will upgrade the whole system unless you’ve got some applications blacklisted by default slackpkg only blacklists ‘aaa_elflibs‘ and its generally recommended to leave it like that
5. This is the last step and involves the execution of ‘slackpkg clean-system‘ which will clean old packages which were removed from the current tree
This guide is far from complete, so if you’ve got any suggestions or queries feel free to contact till then enjoy slacking!
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