[SOLVED] Slackbuilds Installing slpkg

SAJM · 07-15-2022, 05:42 AM

Ive just installed Slack 15.0 and updated it to current using slackpkg
I'm trying to install slpkg

Here is what I did:

I followed https://slackbuilds.org/howto/

Downloaded and unpacked slpkg-3.9.1.tar.gz

In the slpkg-3.9.1 directory I

Code:

bash-5.1# chmod +x slpkg.SlackBuild

then

Code:

bash-5.1# ./slpkg.SlackBuild

The result was

Code:

bash-5.1# ./slpkg.SlackBuild
tar: /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/slpkg-3.9.1.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/v3.9.1.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/slpkg-3.9.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
unzip:  cannot find or open /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/slpkg-3.9.1.zip, /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/slpkg-3.9.1.zip.zip or /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/slpkg-3.9.1.zip.ZIP.
unzip:  cannot find or open /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/v3.9.1.zip, /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/v3.9.1.zip.zip or /home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/v3.9.1.zip.ZIP.
bash-5.1#

I looked in the directory
/home/m0ddr/Downloads/slpkg-3.9.1/slackbuild/
and sure enough v3.9.1.zip.zip is not there

Ive never even heard of a file called .zip.zip. I thought zip was a windows thing?

SAJM · 07-15-2022, 06:03 AM

I got my mistake. I did not put the source code in the correct directory.
This is now done and the install went ahead with no errors.
However when I try to run slpkg I get command not found.

SAJM · 07-15-2022, 06:14 AM

Silly me Ii did not read the last section. Working now

fourtysixandtwo · 07-15-2022, 02:12 PM

I'm wondering why you downloaded and used the 3.9.1 version? The latest version of slpkg is 4.1.3 and that's what is in the 15.0 slackbuilds repo.

It's usually recommended to be using the latest version of a package manager before updating anything else with it.

SAJM · 07-15-2022, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fourtysixandtwo

I'm wondering why you downloaded and used the 3.9.1 version? The latest version of slpkg is 4.1.3 and that's what is in the 15.0 slackbuilds repo.

It's usually recommended to be using the latest version of a package manager before updating anything else with it.

That is the version I downloaded from Slackbuilds. I must have used 14.2 not 15.0.