Thanks gapan! Worked perfectly

I got the following error when using sklearn : /usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/sklearn/externals/joblib/_multiprocessing_helpers.py:38: UserWarning: This platform lacks a functioning sem_open implementation, therefore, the required synchronization primitives needed will not function, see issue 37...

Indeed, that makes sense. I wasn't aware of config on slapt-get, good to know

Thanks again!

Thanks for your reply, gapan! Indeed, I saw the packages, but I'd like to install the newer versions available as Slackbuilds. I've been manually downloading and installing the Slackbuilds, but the process is cumbersome, specially when it comes to long dependency chains. Is there a simple way to hav...

This is probably a silly question, but I can't find a way of making slapt-src find some packages that are clearly on the repository. $ slapt-src -u Fetching slackbuild list from http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/slkbuild/14.2/...Cached Fetching slackbuild list from http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/...

Thanks!!

How do you installed Firefox 57 (or newer)?

I can't find any SlackBuild, and the newer package I see in slapt-get is 52.7.

Great, thanks!!

@laprjns @gapan thanks!!

One more question: is it easy to include a gcc upgrade in this process?
According to this post the gcc upgrade is somehow linked to the kernel packages.

I'm sorry but I don't know much about kernel types. I'm asking how to upgrade after a fresh install, where I can see the following packages: ls /var/log/packages/kernel-* /var/log/packages/kernel-firmware-20160823git-noarch-1_slack14.2 /var/log/packages/kernel-huge-4.4.19-x86_64-1_slack14.2 /var/log...