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+Slackins is a graphical frontend for Slackware's pkgtool suite.
+It has also some additional tools; for example, rpm2tgz, library check,
+etcetera. You must have root privileges to start it.
+
+It has some flaws, though. Resizing it is not that beautiful, and
+there are also some spelling issues.
+
+Note that the slackins binary will install with root:wheel ownership
+and mode 4750, meaning that it's setuid root and executable only by
+root and members of the wheel group. This should be a safe enough
+approach since this will prevent everyone else from executing it,
+and even so, slackins will prompt for the root password before doing
+anything. If you don't want to install the binary suid, then run
+the build script as follows:
+ SETSUID=no ./slackins.SlackBuild