If you want to use another revision of the SVN codebase, get it and put it in a directory called dosbox-dev, then create a dosbox-dev-0.74.rXXXX.tar.xz archive. After that you can do REVISION=XXXX ./dosbox-dev.SlackBuild There'll be some available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/dosbox/ For example for the latest available revision: # svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dosbox/code-0/dosbox/trunk dosbox-dev # REVISION=$(cd dosbox-dev && LANG=C svn info | grep "Revision"| cut -d' ' -f2) # tar cfa dosbox-dev-0.74.r$REVISION.tar.xz dosbox-dev/ # export REVISION # ./dosbox-dev.SlackBuild