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Free Repository
We provide a free repository for use with slackpkg. It should be regarded as experimental, but we are already using it without having any problems. Still, read this entire section before making a switch, since our repository differs from the stock in several important ways. Be advised, this section is only for those who want to customize an existing Slackware install. If you installed from a FreeSlack ISO, then all these settings are already set right.
To switch to the new repo, you have to
- edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to use our repo,
https://freeslack.net/fxp/freeslack64-14.2/
- uncomment the SLACKKEY line in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf and change it to
SLACKKEY="Connie Dobbs (Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware)"
- obtain our signing key
slackpkg update gpg
and force
slackpkg update
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 kernel build scripts useful for manually building custom kernels.
The rest of the packages in our repository are unmodified official binaries, so you can think of it as a deblobbed mirror.