The most basic thing one needs to learn when setting up Slackware (on a VPS, especially) is how to get various packages and install them.  This is most easily done via the wget and installpkg commands. http://slackware.com/getslack has a list of mirrors where you can get slackware packages. Packages will be found within a directory [...]

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On VPS hosting, using an administration panel (e.g. cPanel, Plesk, Interworx, DirectAdmin, etc…) together with a distro such as CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu is the popular choice.  This is the conservative decision, but sometimes this just hampers flexibility to an unacceptable degree.  You are often tightly constrained regarding the versions of software you can use.  In my present [...]

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