http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/huge-response.html

In just a day, the vote has got a huge response from Slackware users around the world. So far, 72 peoples have vote for it and most of them voted for Slacky.eu. It seems that including Slacky.eu is the correct decision as it has so many users worldwide. I still believe there are still a lot of users out there. So please came by and vote for it.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/poll-results.html

Thanks to everybody who contributes to this votes as it claimed as the highest record on my blog (184 voters). The question was "How Do You Install Non Officials Packages?" and the results are as follow:

All of my options are voted, but as usual, we always have a winner, so this month poll's winner is the third option, Get from Slacky.eu.

FYI, Slacky.eu is an Italian Slackware community that has wide community (if you are looking at the poll results above, you will see what i mean) and it's not coming just from Italian people. They gave SlackBuilds script to compile the source code and turn it into tgz packages which is the native Slackware format so that you can easily manage them using installpkg/upgradepkg/removepkg commands. Although the website is build using Italian language, most of the package name are still reserved in English, so i guess you won't find it hard to find the packages you are looking for.

I know that the options listed here are not the only ways of installing a package in Slackware Linux, but i guess it can accommodate the most common ways to install third party packages.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

documented on: 2008-05-19