Editing Slapt-get (section)

== Features ==

slapt-get builds functionality on top of the native [[Slackware]] package tools (installpkg, upgradepkg and removepkg) enabling package query, remote fetching, system updates, integrated changelog information, and many optional advanced features<ref name=slaptgetreadme /> such as dependency resolution, package conflicts, suggestions, checksum and public key verification, and transfer resumption.

slapt-get uses the libcurl [[cURL]] library for transport. libcurl provides support for ftp, ftps, http, https, file:// and other resource types along with transfer resume for incomplete downloads.  slapt-get also uses the [[GNU Privacy Guard]] library to validate signatures.

slapt-get provides a simple configuration file format that includes an exclusion mechanism for use with the system upgrade option as well as declarations for all desired package sources.  Each package source can optionally be tagged with a specific priority in order to override the package version comparison and honor upstream software downgrades as might be the case when Slackware reverts to a previous version of a package.<ref name=slaptgetfaq>{{cite web |url=https://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-get/plain/FAQ |title=FAQ |website=software.jaos.org |access-date=September 10, 2019}}</ref>