Unraid

Unraid is a lightweight operating system for running storage servers with software controlled RAID arrays.

Installing VIM in Unraid

Check what version of slackware we are running with cat /etc/os-release and you’ll get output that looks like this:

NAME=Slackware
VERSION="15.0"
ID=slackware
VERSION_ID=15.0
PRETTY_NAME="Slackware 15.0 x86_64 (post 15.0 -current)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:15.0"
HOME_URL="http://slackware.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/"
VERSION_CODENAME=current

Use the slackware package manager to find the packages to download. Here are the packages for

vim
and libsodium which vim depends upon

Download the packages and install them:

wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/l/libsodium-1.0.18-x86_64-3.txz
wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/vim-9.0.2127-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
installpkg libsodium-1.0.18-x86_64-3.txz
installpkg vim-9.0.2127-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Install on Reboot

Copy the downloaded packages to /boot/extra on the USB drive so that these packages are automatically reinstalled on reboot.

cp  libsodium-1.0.18-x86_64-3.txz vim-9.0.2127-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz /boot/extra