Is there an equivalent to apt-get update && upgrade or do you need to track down...

morb · on March 18, 2016

slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade-all. See http://slackpkg.org/documentation.html. slackpkg is a part of Slackware, installed by default. If you really like apt, you can use slapt-get (and slapt-src) http://software.jaos.org/.

After answering this f. question with the same f. answer for literally 10 years, I'm starting to feel that some kind of re-branding would be a good thing for Slackware. It doesn't matter what Slackware is, it matters what people think it is. And what they think it is isn't really what it is. It's a reasonable distro.

Anyways, I recommend you give it a shot. See the README files, and http://docs.slackware.com/. And have fun.

ktRolster · on March 18, 2016

It's a reasonable distro.

And actually quite a pleasure to use, it is cleanly built.

johnchristopher · on March 19, 2016

Thanks, I'll spin a VM with it.

Indeed some rebranding for slackware may be a good idea since its reputation suffers from misconceptions and outdated irrelevant truths.

5ilv3r · on March 18, 2016

You download the new package (or rsync the whole tree) then run installpkg on it.