UPDATE: If you build packages as root without changing the umask you will get broken packages. Simply issue umask 0022 before you build. This is fixed in the slack-package.conf file and will be in the next version of slackbuilds package. This directory contains build scripts for Slackware. Most of these are taken from -current and only have a few modifications. You should always read the program.SlackBuild file and adjust it for your needs. Also you will need to download the slack-package.conf file and place it in /etc and edit for your needs or you can install the slackbuilds-1.1-noarch-1jim.tgz package that will add this as a package. The conf file is the global config file for building packages that you download from here. Install these files just as you would a package and go to /usr/src/slackbuilds/program name. These do not have the source in them they are just the build scripts. Look at the header of the program.Slackbuild to see if it downloads the source for you, most of these will do that as part of the build process and require wget to grab the source. For information on how to make an src package please see http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto.php?page=package-source&title=Package+Source+Create this page is not complete yet so look for changes. There will be a new page up soon on how to use these files. Enjoy and drop me some feedback if you would like me to continue with this. If you have build packages already please just package it up like these and email them to me and I will add them here. Jim