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How to tell the packages installed on Slack, 

courtesy of Steven J. Hathaway <Steven.J.Hathaway@state.or.us>.
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@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ information, distributions, new software, documentation, and news.
Documentation for kernel developers is on-line: [[http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net]].
The tutorial, <citetitle>Unix is a Four Letter Word...,</citetitle> is
located at [[http://www.linuxbox.com/~taylor/4ltrwrd/]].
located at [[http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/4ltrwrd/]].
It is a general introduction to Unix operating systems and is not Linux specific.
Additionally, here is a certainly incomplete list of Web pages devoted to Linux:
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Q: If I Screwed Up the System and Can't Log In, How Can I Fix It?|screwed-up-system-and-cant-log-in
A: You did create an emergency floppy (or floppies), right? Reboot from an emergency floppy or floppy pair. For example, the Slackware boot and root disk pair in the install subdirectory of the Slackware distribution.
A: You did create an emergency floppy (or floppies), right?
Reboot from an emergency floppy or floppy pair.
For example, the Slackware boot and root disk pair in the install
subdirectory of the Slackware distribution.
A: There are also two, do-it-yourself rescue disk creation packages in
[[ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Recovery/]].
@ -3481,10 +3484,18 @@ You can save the output to a text file for future reference, a command like:
<screen> $ rpm -qa >installed-packages </screen>
For Debian systems, the equivalent command is:
A: For Debian systems, the equivalent command is:
<screen>$ dpkg -l </screen>
A: For Slackware and Slackware based distributions, look in the directory
[[dir:/var/log/packages]].
[Steven J. Hathaway]
There is one file that describes the contents of each *.tgz package
installed on your system.
Q: What Is a <literal>.gz</literal> File? And a <literal>.tgz</literal>? And <literal>.bz2</literal>? And... ?|What-is-a-gz-file-tgz
A: <literal>.gz</literal> (and <literal>.z</literal>) files are compressed using GNU