Quoting canito at dalan.us: > I want to know, for those peeps who live by Slack what tools or > methods are recommended to maintain Slackware "patched" for lack of a > better term? I've used slackpkg [1], a command line tool similar to a simple version of Debian's apt-get. I've used it to do OS upgrades over the network and it works really well. I have one system that refuses to boot from floppy and/or cdrom and has limited disk space so network upgrades are the best option. If you follow the Slackware UPGRADE.TXT instructions (first upgrade glibc, pkgtools, etc), when you get to the part about upgrading "everything else", slackpkg shines here. It allows you to upgrade all installed pkgs for a given disk set, and only upgrades what you have installed, like this: slackpkg upgrade a slackpkg upgrade ap slackpkg upgrade n ... There's also slapt-get [2], but I prefer slackpkg. -- [1] http://slackpkg.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapt-get