slapt-get --install

[desertViking]

I am new to slapt-get, but it seems like something worth learning. So far, I've been searching for, downloading and installing packages by hand. FYI, I'm using 10.2, kernel 2.6.10.

I'm having difficulty installing packages.

I first excute (for example):

slapt-get --search app

"app" appears in the output display, so I exeucte,

slapt-get --install app

and pretty consistently it returns 0 for packages installed, no such module.

I'm sure that I am missing something obvious. Can someone offer advice?

Thx!

[Dapper Dan]

Did you already do:

slapt-get --update

first?

[desertViking]

Yes, I did.

The curious thing is that I can see the application I want in the --search display, but it will not retrieve it whan I say --install.

Thank-you for your reply and interest in my question.

[jens]

are you using proxy?

[desertViking]

No, I'm not using a proxy. I have a direct connection to the internet through a cable modem and havn't used proxies in the past.

Is proxy required?

[jens]

Is proxy required?

No.
It would only give you extra trouble.

Perhaps you could try this slapt-get package(if that's not what you're using already):
http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=7419

PS: Which package are you trying to install?

[desertViking]

Hi,

That's what I thought, too.

There are a few packages that I was looking for. For all, I can browse to an arbitrary FTP site and dowload the package, no problem. The thing I liked about using a package management tool was keeping things current later.

Here's an example. Was trying to install bittorrent. I checked my referenced package sites to see if it was there.

# slapt-get --search | grep bit
bc-1.06-i386-2 [inst=yes]: bc (An arbitrary precision calculator language)
*****x-1.1-i486-2 [inst=yes]: *****X (chat client)
libsamplerate-0.1.2-i486-1kjz [inst=no]: libsamplerate - Secret Rabbit Code (sample rate converter)
bittorrent-4.1.6-noarch-1rsa [inst=no]: BitTorrent (A file distribution utility)

Looks like bittorrent is there. So I execute:

# slapt-get --install BitTorrent
Reading Package Lists... Done
No such package: BitTorrent
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done

Not much help :->

This is the revision of slapt-get I'm using (I downloaded source and compiled it locally): slapt-get-0.9.10d-i386-1

Thanks for taking a minute to ponder my question.

[jens]

# slapt-get --install BitTorrent
Reading Package Lists... Done
No such package: BitTorrent
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

It's :
slapt-get --install bittorrent (and not BitTorrent)

[desertViking]

Good call, that worked. I'm always so sensitive about being case sensitive that I over "cased" it.

What am I doing wrong on this example?

# slapt-get --search karamba
superkaramba-0.37-RC1-i486-1ron [inst=no]: karamba 0.37-RC1 eye-candy on your KDE desktop

# slapt-get --install karamba
Reading Package Lists... Done
No such package: karamba
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done

[jens]

Good call, that worked. I'm always so sensitive about being case sensitive that I over "cased" it.

What am I doing wrong on this example?

# slapt-get --search karamba
superkaramba-0.37-RC1-i486-1ron [inst=no]: karamba 0.37-RC1 eye-candy on your KDE desktop

# slapt-get --install karamba
Reading Package Lists... Done
No such package: karamba
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done

Always pick the real file name without the version numbers and extensions.
In this case:
superkaramba-0.37-RC1-i486-1ron > makes:
slapt-get --install superkaramba