How to publish Slackware packages on Sonatype.

What are Slackware packages?

Slackware is a free distribution of Linux. It features a wide range of technology from printing to networking to services, and thanks to its advanced package management system, it’s incredibly easy to install and remove software to match your computer system's needs. Supporting this distribution is very easy, since it is backed up by a large community of developers and users.

What is Sonatype?

Sonatype Nexus is the most prevalent open source repository management software platform in use today. Its popularity is driven by its powerful capabilities for managing all aspects of the full development lifecycle, that can scale to meet the most ambitious projects. It provides flexible platforms to manage agile development processes and single-server to enterprise software deployments.

Publish Slackware packages on Sonatype with packagecloud

If you’re looking to publish Slackware packages on Sonatype, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Slackware packages. With packagecloud you can manage all of your packages from various OS’s, languages, and more. Always trust that your packages will be secure when you publish your Slackware packages on Sonatype via packagecloud.