Slackware packages made by Alien
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Here you'll find the Slackware packages I built and that other people requested
to be made available (or that I thought you might like).

Alien's SlackBuilds contain a 'build' and a 'pkg' directory.

The 'build' directory contains everything (SlackBuild script, slack-desc file.
plus all the source files) you'll need when you want to build the packages
yourself.

The 'pkg' directory contains the binary packages, ready for installation using
'installpkg' or 'upgradepkg'. You'll find *.tgz (the package itself), *.txt
(the package description) and *.md5 (containing the md5 checksum of the package)
files in each 'pkg' directory.

The optional 'tmp' directory contains the directory structure that is packed
into _<packagename>.tar.gz file in the 'build' directory. This is a skeleton
for building the package.
An easy way to download the 'build' directory for any of the available programs
to your local computer is the following command (provided you installed the
lftp package) -
Change the string <program> to the name of the package you want to download:

  lftp -c "open http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/<program>/; mirror build"

Then do

  cd build
  sh <program>.SlackBuild

to build a package which will be created in the /tmp directory.

If you have any questions or requests, drop me a line.
You can contact me in Libera.Chat IRC in #slackbuilds.
Look out for alienBOB.

Eric Hameleers < alien -at- slackware -dot- com > / 28-nov-2006 /

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