In order to build slacktrack: # ./slacktrack.SlackBuild -i This will compile installwatch and turn all the relevant bits included within this source tar ball into a Slackware package and will then install it. The resulting package will reside in /tmp You may wish to adjust the ARCH variable to match your architecture though - eg i386,sparc,alpha,arm. You can do this at the command line by doing # ARCH=sparc ./slacktrack.SlackBuild -i