FWIW, I'm not sure I fully agree with the information in RPM+Slackware. Sure, you can install the rpm binary on a Slackware system, but there won't be any existing rpm database to tell rpm what is/isn't installed, so there's no conflict checking between the packages installed with RPM, and those installed by Slackware. It's real possible to destroy the entire system if you install/uninstall RPM packages using RPM on systems where it is not the native package system. On the other hand, there are much fewer problems with converting RPMs to .tgz packages with rpm2targz (in Slackware's contrib directory), and then installing them with Slackware's package management tools, like 'installpkg', 'removepkg', and 'pkgtool'. My $0.02... Patrick J. Volkerding Slackware maintainer