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Hello all and first of all congratulations on a fine implementation of Slackware!

My questions is being asked before I create a problem so if this needs to be moved to another section of the forum Mods please go ahead

I am about to install Conky but I want Lua support.
I am looking at keeping Salix "clean" so I was looking at installing it through the Salix tools.
The "pre-problem question is":

Can I install it through Gslapt or Sourcery with LUA support? If so how?
The instructions at Slackbuilds says the following:

To enable lua scripting engine support, you will need lua, imlib2, and
tolua++, and run this script like this: LUA=yes ./conky.SlackBuild

The key being runing the script like LUA=yes

If I can't, can I just use installpkg the Slack way?

Thanks in advance for the responses!

The conky package in the 13.37 repositories already has lua support enabled. No lua bindings for imlib2 and cairo though as they require tolua++, which is not in the repositories.
You can build your own package though, either using the buildfiles installed with the salix package into /usr/src/conky-1.8.1. You could add to the configure line in the SLKBUILD whatever options you want.
Alternatively you can of course use slackbuilds.org. There's no difference building packages from that source with sourcery/slapt-src or manually. slapt-src does nothing else than downloading, running the buildscript and installing the package, which you would also do manually.

Thank you Shador.