Linux newbie question: How do you install applications?

[singularis]

I know this is more of a general linux question but how would I go about installing an application such as code::blocks on a slackware based operating system (Vector Linux). Are applications referred to as packages? Or are packages specific to Vector linux?

No flamming please ;)

[sunburnt]

Slackware doesn't really have a very good package system (at least it didn't last time I used it). Software comes in just a regular compressed tarred-gziped filed (.tar.gz or .tgz) and you install it by doing "installpkg <filename>" as root.

Your alternative would be to download the sourcecode (and any dependencies) and build it yourself.

Sorry I'm not much help!