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Spman is a powerful Slackware package manager implemented on Python3
and licensed under the MIT license.

Main features:
    - check packages for upgrade
    - download package or source code from allowed repositories
    - download, build and install package(s) in the queue from SBo
        repository
    - show list all dependencies for package from SBo repository
    - view the contents of files included in SlackBuild archive
    - search package from each enabled repository and view info
    - show complete list of the packages in the repository
    - search dependency problems in the system packages using
        Slackware binary dependency checker (sbbdep) tool or ldd
    - search for links to nonexistent files/dir in the specified
        directory
    - check health installed packages
    - search for *.new config files on the system
    - autocompletion of input parameters

Supported repositories:
    Slackware.com
    SlackBuilds.org
    Alien's
    Alien's multilib

Optional dependencies:
    - sbbdep (for search dependency problems functionality)