Best way to know EXACTLY what to install in Slack

[IceT]

Hello everybody, can someone tell me what´s the best way to learn what every single package from, for instance, Slackware does to be able to make a clean instalation, with no programs that just lay around and you never use them.

There are some programs that are easy to figure it out, but others no, like some of the packages from the /a directory, the /n ('cause I don't know muck about network), the /tcl, and others...

So, how to know the packages you need to make your computer work with the minimum required, but wihtout loosing usefull programs such as, I don´t know, the acpi thing, that you can disable in the instalation, but it kind of is important...

Thanks

[bammbamm808]

This isn't a "Slackware" question so much as a general linux question. Read about the packages on the web and learn all about them for yourself. It all depends on your system and what you want to do with it. Only you can determine that.

[IceT]

I know the question can be kind of too general, but I do only use Slackware, since ever...

I already did all the things you said, I´ve downloaded tons of files, read many manuals and stuff, only looking for this thing I wanted.

The thing is, I don´t have many experience with Linux, not enough to have used or known everysingle file that the system needs.

So, after some tests, I still would wonder if that one package that I didn´t install would make any difference.

There are far too many general help on the internet, NOTHING to help me on this specific matther. I already looked for EVERY single file from the /a directory on google, and that was nos complete satisfactory, as there are files wich google didn´t found a mathing page about it.

What I would like as an answer, is a book that has what I need (preference downloadble) or at the very least, someone experint enough to answer a few doubts about, like, one tenth from all the files from the slackware instalation.

I will post my question in the Installing section.

Thanks for answering anyway :)

[Sepero]

I use Slack too. What I did was download and install ZipSlack. From there I just downloaded and installed packages as I needed them. Very simple.

I don't know how new you are to linux though... ZipSlack doesn't come with Xwindows, but I've been using it since I was a complete newbie. I guess it really depends on your level of commitment. :)

To view or remove packages from your system, type:
pkgtool

To install a package, type:
install <package_name>.tgz

To upgrade a package:
upgradepkg <package_name>.tgz


I love slack :p

Hope I helped.

[Pierre Lambion]

Here is the way I do it, FWIW:

I never install from ISO but rather from a harddrive partition. I download the parts of the packages tree that I'm interested in (for instance no F serie, No KDE serie, ...)

Then I browse the files, checking the describing text files. I erase all I don't need.

Finally I launch the installation and select full install.

P.