slapt-get¶

slapt-get (https://software.jaos.org/) is an apt-get-style front-end to Slackware’s pkgtools.

Parsing notes, verified against the slapt-get 0.11.12 C source (src/main.c, src/transaction.c) and its man page:

Listing lines print a fused “name-version-arch-build [inst=yes|no]: description” record, where slapt-get’s own log pattern treats the three trailing dash-fields as version-arch-build. The regexes capture the bare upstream version and drop the arch and build tags.
--search is a POSIX regex over names, matching available then installed-only packages.
No outdated: --upgrade --simulate prints a wrapped, names-only paragraph with no versions, which cannot satisfy the per-line parser.
--no-prompt answers the “Do you want to continue? [y/N]” prompt; mutations (including --update, which writes the package cache) need root, and Slackware ships no sudo by default, so mpm’s own escalation does the work.
Home page: https://software.jaos.org/
Source: meta_package_manager/managers/slapt_get.toml

Platforms¶

🐧 Linux (Slackware only)

Operations¶

Operation	Supported	Notes
`installed`	✓
`outdated`
`search`	✓	exact and extended search backfilled by `mpm`
`install`	✓
`upgrade`	✓
`upgrade_all`	✓
`remove`	✓
`sync`	✓
`cleanup`	✓

Ecosystem¶

Accepted purl types: pkg:slapt-get

Usage¶

$ mpm --slapt-get installed
$ mpm --slapt-get search "query"
$ mpm --slapt-get upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:slapt-get/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --slapt-get upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-slapt-get, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line¶

CLI names, in lookup order: slapt-get

The version is probed by running:

$ slapt-get --version
slapt-get version 0.11.12

and extracted with:

r"slapt-get version (?P<version>\S+)"

Privilege escalation¶

System-wide manager: mpm wraps its privileged operations in sudo out of the box. Instead of letting the tool prompt mid-run, mpm primes the credential cache up-front, with a single branded password prompt at most. Turn escalation off for rootless setups with --no-sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

Root is required for its cleanup, install, remove, sync, upgrade, upgrade_all operations.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown¶

State of slapt-get’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: ❌ None (Slackware)

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.

Reference traces¶

Raw native outputs captured in the bundled definition: the reference mpm’s parsers were written against. If you know slapt-get well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

$ slapt-get --installed
tree-2.3.2-x86_64-1 [inst=yes]: display directory tree
util-linux-2.39-x86_64-1 [inst=yes]: collection of utilities

$ slapt-get --search {query}
tree-2.3.2-x86_64-1 [inst=no]: display directory tree