After installing Slackware 15.0 Immediately do the following as ROOT Add new users adduser Protect your home data with this command chmod 700 $HOME Do this while logged in as each new user (suggest this to new remote users as well) (Be Certain to do this as ROOT) Edit the following file /etc/slackpkg/mirrors Uncomment one of the mirrors that corresponds to your location Make a backup of /etc/lilo.conf (name it lilo.conf.bak) to be safe. Run some initial slackpkg commands slackpkg update gpg slackpkg update slackpkg upgrade-all slackpkg install-new Run the command /sbin/lilo (take any backup precautions necesary) Go to 'sbopkg.org', go to downloads and download the file from the first link that reads "here". This can be done in X or using a terminal browser (lynx should be installed by default). Another option is running the following command wget https://github.com/sbopkg/sbopkg/releases/download/0.38.2/sbopkg-0.38.2-noarch-1_wsr.tgz (Note that '/sbopkg' is there twice) Install 'sbopkg' by running installpkg ("" is the file that was just downloaded from sbopkg.org) Run some initial sbopkg commands sbopkg -u sbopkg -r Use sbopkg to install the following packages libconfig sboui sbopkg is menu-driven, you can run 'sbopkg and use the search option to find the packages listed above. Another option is to run the command sbopkg -i 'libconfig sboui' (multiple packages must be in single quotes and separated with only spaces) Once sboui is installed run sboui -s Run the command startx as your primary user (this will create necesary config files)