Slackware package install, is it possible?

input · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 13

Hello, Im new to gentoo. My prior system was slackware8-10.

I am familiar with the way slackware has its packages, just a tarball of the entire install structure.

My question is, is it possible just to "tar x" a slackware package to / without any trouble?
( Then later, if i ever wanted to uninstall I would manually take out all the directories/files created by the tar extraction.)

canal · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 203

input · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 13

Thanks! As I had thought, gentoo's system structure is set up like slackware's.

Rainmaker · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:51 pm Post subject:

actually, gentoo uses the same thing with binairy packages: they are just .tar.bz2 files which are extracted to /.

You'll have to be carefull though, gentoo's file structure might be different from slackware's, especially with packages related to the init system
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