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You learn by breaking stuff.

I understand what you mean. i got my #! install working better than any OS I've ever had (even the few things Debian does differently make for a good learning experience), so I'm not really into...

Yakonw guys, I was just joking when I mentioned G3 on Slack. And you both went for the full Monty :D

It should work, slapt-get pointing to their repos is the only difference to the original Slack, I think. I know that Slack users sometimes cheat by installing spapt-get and pointing it to Salix repos.

Slackware has kicked Gnome out od the official reposa while ago, but those guys have workarounds for everything. I think I'm gonna try it with a tiling WM or something, just to get a feel for the...

Download the dependencies as well, just to be sure.
Strange, the apt dependency list is different in Sid as opposed to Squeeze. Check mine out. Not the dependencies, just the config

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Yeah, but I'd mark this one as especially important, since if apt goes away and you forget where you put the debs, you might as well build a GSlack3 :D

I think all the config files are in /etc/apt
Trawl through /usr/lib to see any reference to it.

What you could do, I guess, when apt is working, do an


apt-cache depends apt

See the...

dselect is a higher level interface to apt, just like Synaptic. apt wasn't designed as a user-level tool, people just use it because it's awesome. So without apt, you're not gonna be able to use the...

You guys are completely crazy :D

So it's coming to life. You never know, you might end up as a Linux Mint developer by the end of this.