If you have NimbleX running from the hard drive or a USB stick, you can install new programs.

There are two ways (actually three, but the last one is the hard way) to install a new program.

Step 1: Getting the files

1. You can download a .mo file from the Extend NimbleX page.
There is a small quantity of programs due to bandwidth, so only the most common programs are there.

2. If the program you're looking for is not there, you still can obtain it. You'll have to transform a .tgz file to a .mo file.

1. Open the program Gslapt (Programs Menu -->System --> Gslapt, or press Alt+F2 an type gslapt) and press the button "Update".
   
   You'll get a list with all available packages. Click on the check box of the program(s) you want, and choose "install"
   
2. After you've chosen your programs, click on the button "Execute", and on the dialog window mark the option Download packages only
   The downloaded packages will have a .tgz extension (they are on the /root directory).
   
3. Open a terminal (aterm, Konsole etc) and type:
   
   Code:
   tgz2mo packagename.tgz packagesource.mo
   
   Replace "packagename" with the name of the downloaded package, and "packagesource" with the name of the new package. You can write the same name, just replace the tgz extension with mo.
   
   It will take a few minutes, after that, check the folder. You'll have a new file with the extension .mo
   
   -TIP.Sometimes the server where gslapt downloads the packages is way too slow, so you can download the tgz files manually from the slackware mirrors:
   http://www.slackware.com/getslack/ -

Step 2: Installing the program
Once you have the .mo files, everything is easy.

*To start the program, simply click on the file.

*If you want to have the program installed everytime you boot the computer:

Copy the files to the "modules" directory. It is in /mnt/hdXY/.
REPLACE X and Y. X is the letter of your hard disk (a=disk one, b=disk two) and Y is the number of your partition, 1,2,3 etc.
for example, if you have nimbex installed on the disk one, partition 5, then the modules directory will be on /mnt/hda5

Every module copied there will be automatically installed every time you boot the system, and you can access it from the Applications Menu.


Oh, and about the third way.
If you cannot find the .tgz file for the program you want, you'll need to install it using a different linux distribution, then make a directory where you'll reproduce exactly the same directory structure the program creates on your system, and then use the command dir2mo. Search in google about the command dir2mo and how to create .mo files from directories.
It's easy, but it will take you a long time to create the directories

This pretty much still applies but instead "mo" we have "lzm" now