Slackware Blog

I have started to post up some packages that I made for Slackware 12.0 of some things that I didn’t see on LinuxPackages. If you want to see them then please feel free to go to my personal site for them. You can get to confiscatedThoughts to check them out. Also, if you have any request for packages that you can’t seem to find then please feel free to ask and I will do my best to create them for you.

I’m looking for some beta testers for a SlackBuild package manager I’ve been working on called SINP.

SINP can be used just to search the repository on slackbuilds.org, or it can go ahead and download both the SlackBuild tarball along with the source code, run the downloaded SlackBuild and install the resulting package using pkgtools.

I’d love to hear any feature requests or suggestions you might have.

Basic usage is `sinp $PRGNAM`. That will run through all the steps of searching, downloading, packaging, and installing the package created from the SlackBuild.

To display the help just run `sinp -h`

The only other thing I think that needs explaining is the SBoSearch feature. This works as if you used the search box on slackbuilds.org, and is the only search function that allows you to use keywords. The other search functions match part of the slackbuild tarball file name.

Currently SINP only accepts 1 argument, so if you want to search using more than one word ( like “window manager”) you will need to put them in quotes.

The project is hosted on sourceforge. You can download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sinp

I really like the Thunar file manager, so I decided to make a SlackBuild file for it and its libexo dependancy. The script lets you build against XFCE 4.2.3.2 that comes with Slackware not the 4.4 developement version. These are my first couple of SlackBuild files, so any pointers you could give would be great.

The scripts are posted as comments. (I couldn’t figure out how to add them to the post without taking up too much space on the main page)