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- *How to add new packages to BasicLinux *
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- BasicLinux 2 is compatible with Slackware 7.1, so you should be able to
- install any package from there using the package manager (which is
- included in the BasicLinux HD installation). Execute *pkgtool* for a
- menu-driven routine, or use *installpkg* to install a package directly.
- Both methods register the package in the manager's database.
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- Slackware 7.1 packages are relatively small. They provide components,
- not self-contained applications. In most cases, you will need to
- install several related packages to get what you want. Here are some
- examples.
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- _Adding manpages to BasicLinux_
- This requires five packages (and fills 8mb of HD space). First, you
- need the manpages and the man command -- that's two packages. Groff is
- used to decifer the manpages and less is used to display them, so that's
- two more. Groff needs a special library -- that's five.
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- installpkg man.tgz ## a9
- installpkg manpages.tgz ## ap1
- installpkg groff.tgz ## ap1
- installpkg less.tgz ## a7
- installpkg cxxlibs.tgz ## a3
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-
- _Adding Midnight Commander to BasicLinux_
- This requires two packages (and fills 6mb of HD space). The first
- package contains Midnight Commander and the second contains libraries
- required by Midnight Commander.
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- installpkg mc.tgz ## ap1
- installpkg elflibs.tgz ## a4
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- _Adding a C compiler to BasicLinux_
- This requires a minimum of five packages (which fill 120mb of HD space).
- Most of this space is filled by the glibc2 library, which is _much_
- larger than the old libc5 library (used in BasicLinux 1.8).
-
- installpkg binutils.tgz ## d1
- installpkg egcs.tgz ## d1
- installpkg glibc.tgz ## d1
- installpkg gmake.tgzd1 ## d1
- installpkg linuxinc.tgz ## d1
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- To compile a Linux kernel, two further packages are required (which fill
- an additional 74mb of HD space). The first is the kernel source and the
- second is an assember to make the boot sector.
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- installpkg lx2216.tgz ## k1
- installpkg bin86.tgz ## d1
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