Just wanted to pop in and express my gratitude for the wiki article on Internationalization:
http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/ ... ll_scripts

I used it before to make a shell script translatable and again today for a python program

Tnx guys

If anyone wants to delete my responses that are not appropriate, I wont mind.

It is not advised to mess with the included repsotories in Gslapt, unless you really know what you are doing; and if you are inclined to do that, you probably don't. The whole point of a distribution's repositories is they come tested and guaranteed. Some distros may not be too careful about that ...

Boot Salix KDE Live Beta 14.1 from usb.
1. you will need syslinux installed in a running Salix system.
if you don't have it install it with
sudo slapt-get -i syslinux

2. mount you iso image
mkdir /tmp/iso
sudo mount -o loop salixlive-kde-4.10.5-32.iso /tmp/iso

3. mount your_usb
mkdir ...

Retriever , perhaps there are other methods, like adding repos to Gslapt.
For example, I added the following repository to Gslapt, after reading http://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5251:
Hi!
I just start a project to make all slackbuilds in packages in a repository (later i will add ...

@retriever, I forget to mention, to upgrade the package to a newer version when it comes out, you can similarly download the new version from Alien Bob's repo, and do:
to upgrade the package.

@ mimosa , I think the Slackbuild for google-chrome only repackages the .deb file to .txz, so probably shouldnt take a lot of time..
From http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware-14.1/extra/google-chrome/README
Here's how to install Google Chrome on Slackware.


First, go to the Google ...

To become root, you can try: or

After some reading, I think the tool for installing or upgrading packages on Salix is spkg

So you can download the package from Alien Bob's mirror, and then run: in the directory where you had downloaded the package.