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Introduction

From Wikipedia:

SlackBuilds.org is a community-supported project for acquiring SlackBuild script of extra software not included within Slackware. A SlackBuild build script contains the build instructions and a source download link for building a particular package for your system. This is identical to the way Slackware’s official packages are built and is meant to address possible incompatibilities with community created binary packages while sacrificing the portability of typical binary distribution.

Slackbuilds is the best option to install software in Slackware, software that is not in the official slackware repository.

How to use Slackbuilds.org

I will use htop to show you how to use slackbuilds.org

Go to slackbuilds.org

Using the search box, look for htop

Once you found it, download the htop slackbuid script

Download the htop source, following the link in the slackbuilds’ htop homepage.

Unpack the tarbal of the htop slackbuild htop, I will create an src folder in my home folder.

mkdir ~/src

Then in that folder unpack the htop slackbuild script.

tar xvzf htop.tar.gz

Go into the folder

cd htop

Copy the source tarbal in the htop folder

Run the executable script in the ~/src/htop folder.

You will now have the Slackware binary for htop in the /tmp folder, so install it with

sudo installpkg /tmp/[newly created binary]

That is it, you can follow these same steps to install any other package available in the slackbuilds.org repository.