djemos, Happy & Healthy New Year 2025 to you!
I honestly have no idea why it's installed on my system. It may be from AlienBob.
I'm just marking subject solved.
Thanks for your help!

During slapt-get --upgrade or slapt-get --ignore-excludes --upgrade I get the following:
Reading Package Lists...Done
Excluding protobuf, use --ignore-dep to override
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
protobuf: Depends: pysetuptools
The following packages have been EXCLUDED ...

Thanks again djemos

Same problem with qt6/gst

Thank you djemos for the explanation. My apologies, I've been having to use a different system.

Thank you again djemos

1. emacs required libgccjit. I installed libgccjit and emacs now runs :)

2. when starting gufw, I get this response

$ gufw &
[1] 7115
mike[lib64]$ Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw.py", line 19, in <module>
from instance import Check
File "/usr/share/gufw/instance ...

Fixed!
Thank you again djemos

Been trying to do my upgrade but for some time slapt-get can't download vte. Here's the response:
Get https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/ vte 0.76.0-x86_64-1 [460.0kB]...Failed to download: Failure when receiving data from the peer

Going to get some sleep now

Thank you for help.