The unofficial Slackware Linux package manager. It is a replacement for the standard Slackware pkgtools (installpkg/upgradepkg/removepkg). It is implemented in C and optimized for speed.
- Simple user interface. Just like pkgtools.
- Fast install, upgrade and remove operations.
- Command to list information about installed packages.
- Dry-run mode, in which filesystem is not touched.
- Safe mode for installing untrusted packages.
- Rollback and safe cancel functionality.
- You can use spkg and pkgtools side by side.
- You can be informed about all actions spkg does if you turn on verbose mode.
- Everything is libified. (see docs) You can implement new commands easily.
The license is Public Domain Software. See COPYING file.
- Current Maintainer: George Vlahavas (gapan)
- Original Author: Ondrej Jirman (megous)