Well, then. Looks like I need to learn how to package
the apps separately. Can anybody here help with that? A mini how-to?
You'd need to separate the files into different packages. Put the core libraries in one package, then separate the binaries and other libraries into other packages. If you use RPM for package management, I can provide an example of how to do that. I don't know how to do packaging on any other system.
I don't use RPM, but I can uncompress rpms. As long as the build scripts are inside the rpm I probably can convert the build scripts to Slackware.
Darrell