Please follow the instructions on this link on multilibs. I have extracted the essence of what the page instructs here. Basically, what you will be doing is enabled execution of 32-bit softwares like XAMP, on your 64-bit Slackware system.
1] Make sure you have lftp service on your SlackWare install. Otherwise , download and install it from here. (Be advised that I have not had the need to install lftp manually, but doing so shouldn't be a big problem)
cd /home/<username>/Downloads
installpkg --install-new lftp-4.3.8-i486-1.txz
You should be done.
2] You are in /home/<username>/Downloads
Create a temporary folder called, say , LFTP and cd into it.
cd LFTP
3] Run the following commands and read read the brief notes .
lftp -c 'open http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ ; mirror 14.0'
(where 14.0 is the version of your Slackware build. The latest version at the time of writing is 14.0.)
After you are done downloading all the files from the mirror, you will notice that a new
directory is created. In this case, you will have a directory called 14.0. cd into it.
cd 14.0
4] Enter the following command in the terminal:
upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new *.t?z
You would have installed all the packages present in the directory upon it's execution.
Additionally, you will find a new package create called compat32-tools.
5] cd to the directory slackware64-compat32
cd slackware64-compat32
and run
upgradepkg --install-new *-compat32/*.t?z
6] Finally, run
massconvert32.sh -u http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware
7] Now, test if all this really works... I tried to run XAMPP, which is meant for 32-bit systems exclusively, and it works! Adobe Reader works too!
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