[Slackware] Solving Dependencies

[hop-frog]

I recently installed Slackware, and when I initially booted up I discovered that almost every piece of software had dependency problems. I could be busy for an entire week before I get the entire system in working order.

- What is the best method for solving package dependencies in Slackware?

- If a crashing application is not nice enough to tell me that I need to install a package that includes a specific library, how do I determine what the application needs?

- How do I ensure that all of the dependencies are met for all of the software on my Slackware installation?

NOTE: Please do not suggest compilation from source, Alien, or any Apt-get variations. Assume that I will only use those packages included on the 4 official disks.

Thanks.

[ph34r]

When I install Slack, I just install *everything* from the first 2 cds. No deps problems that way... and compiling after that is easy as pie.

If you think you are missing libs for something, run ldd on it and it will tell you what is missing.

ldd /path/to/binary

[serz]

Originally posted by hop-frog
NOTE: Please do not suggest compilation from source, Alien, or any Apt-get variations. Assume that I will only use those packages included on the 4 official disks.

You can set up this tools just to get official packages, that's what I do.

slapt-get doesn't have dependency check but swaret does.

[hop-frog]

Originally posted by ph34r
When I install Slack, I just install *everything* from the first 2 cds. No deps problems that way... and compiling after that is easy as pie.I do not have enough HD space to install all of these packages and most of the programs are redundant and will never use.

I am surprised that there are no applications to handle these packages, such as Synaptic or a linuxconf module. Implementing automatic dependancies into the command line installer would not be difficult, but I suppose this would make Slackware too easy to use, and Slackware would lose its traditional userbase.

[j79zlr]

I don't think I've ever seen a program not work because of dependencies without saying shared object libwhatever.so not found.

Why does this feel like a troll?