====== Free Repository ======

We provide a [[https://freenix.net/fxp/|free repository]] for use with slackpkg. Be advised, **you only need to change your settings if you want to customize an existing Slackware install**. If you installed from a [[Installation|Freenix ISO]], then all these settings are already set right. Read this entire section before making a switch, since our repository differs from the stock in several important ways.

To switch to the new repo, you have to

  - edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to use our repo, <code>https://freenix.net/fxp/freeslack64-14.2/</code>
  - uncomment the SLACKKEY line in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf and change it to <code>SLACKKEY="Connie Dobbs (Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware)"</code>
  - obtain our signing key <code>slackpkg update gpg</code> and force <code>slackpkg update</code> regardless of the ChangeLog state

Non-free packages were removed and replacements are provided:

  - linux-libre-headers replaces kernel-headers, and they collide in /usr/include
  - linux-libre-source replaces kernel-source, and the source is delivered as a single tarball, so no collision
  - linux-libre-image replaces kernel-huge, kernel-generic, and kernel-modules, and no collisions with the stock

We hope that you will find our [[https://freenix.net/fxp/freeslack64-14.2/source/fxp/build/linux-libre/|kernel build scripts]] useful for manually building custom kernels.

The rest of the packages in our repository are unmodified upstream binaries, so you can think of it as a deblobbed mirror.