KPackage

[t-]

Hello, i'm probably missing something really obvious here but eh, here it is:

I recently installed Slackware 10 (everything's running fine) and i can't seem to get the Slackware packages to be recognized by KPackage (i'm using kde 3.2.3). I copied the Slackware cd's to the harddisk (mounted on /linux) and have tried setting the "location of base folder of Slackware distribution" to /linux, /linux/slackware, /linux/slackware/ap /linux/source/, /linux/source/ap (etc...) I also set the "location of folders containing slackware packages" to pretty much every directory containing slackware packages but still no luck...

(oh, and yes, i did use the "reload" button)

hope someone can help me (i know it's not an essential part of a system but i kind of like stuff to work)

[junme]

Im new to linix I could't figure that one out so I drag and drop um

[Vergil83]

although, this doesn't answer your question, you can use pkgtool to install packages, it is already installed on your system.

[TTT]

Kpackage is very useful to install your Slackware packages.You can install your packages by "browse"(browse button is figured by a directory icon in Kpackage) or just right-click on the package , you want to install.Then in the coming menu choose "System>>Kpackage" and Kpackage appears on the screen.

Finally press "install" button and give your root passwod when it wants to install the package.

[t-]

Oh well, thx for the replies ppl, guess i'll just have to do without KPackage already containing the packages and just select them myself. Although I did just discover swaret and slapt-get which seem like some pretty good alternatives

-t

[JR]

hmm.. are you seeing the packages that are installed (kpackages reads reads from /var/log/packages/ ) ?.. when installing did you select "INSTALL EVERYTHING"? if you did then the slackware packeges found on the disk wont show in new because there names already exist in /var/log/packages.


i dont use kpackage its pretty useless for slackware packs.. if you need to install something run the setup again or use installpkg /path/to/package.tgz

[t-]

hmm.. are you seeing the packages that are installed (kpackages reads reads from /var/log/packages/ ) ?.. when installing did you select "INSTALL EVERYTHING"? if you did then the slackware packeges found on the disk wont show in new because there names already exist in /var/log/packages.

Yep, i can see everything that's installed and I didn't install everything (i double-checked and there's a whole bunch of packges there not yet installed).
Anyway, i must confess i installed fedora core 3 today not so much because i didn't like slackware, just got bored (and i can't help being curious about 'the other' distro's) So well, i use Synaptic now

cheers,

-t

[heartsmagic]

Oh another looser
You ll get bored soonly from Fedora..
Slack rocks my friend but it is not user-freiendly, that i confess.

[init]

I find Slack very friendly to me :P Just keep order!

[heartsmagic]

it is actually console friendly and if you are a user that likes console actions (like me) yes it is user friendly.