Kind of got used to running kpackage to remove unwanted packages in older versions of Slack. When running kpackage in slack13 I get the following error message.

Any ideas?

Another gotcha for me is that there is no ktorrent in extra on the dvd. Always been my favourite bittorrent app.

Can't have everything I suppose?

Been using Slackware for so long you kind of get used to your own setup and there are some apps you couldn't live without.

KPackage no longer works with pkgtools, if I'm not mistaken. Use pkgtools directly.

Edit: ktorrent is in slackware/kde/ktorrent-3.2.2-i486-1.txz

Thanks for the location of ktorrent - is it already installed then. Sorry will search for it and obviously if it is not on my system then it is not installed.

Any tutorials on pkgtools anyone. I installed gslapt as suggested in a different thread. But it don't work. Looks like getting into dependancy nightmare with that one.

What I need is a decent GUI package system that I can use to remove certain packages. Kpackage was good in that previously it allowed you to see what was going to be removed before you removed it.

Trouble is I only ever used kpackage and found it too be handy to get rid of packages I didn't need.

Nice that ktorrent is now installed from the cd/dvd.

Run pkgtool as root, and read man pkgtool. Or you could install smart from slackbuilds.org, either directly or via sbopkg, you will then be able to use kpackage.

samac

I don't use the GUI to manage package in Slackware, and certainly I don't use slapt-get or any of its variants. You should really, in my humble opinion, get used to knowing what you're doing and learn pkgtools like everyone else. Plus, the "database" of installed packages is in /var/log/packages. There you can see which ones are installed and, opening the files in there, you can see the contents of each package.

The Slackbook is a good starting point: http://www.slackbook.org/

Thanks for the advice rg3. pkgtool it is then. Thanks also for the link also, read it years ago, but he old brain cells are not what the used to be. Been using slackware since slack9, but I am a stickler for the old UI.

Having fun now playing with the desktop look and feel system settings.

Java development now up and running Back to what I do know.

Considering the accolades Pat had been throwing toward KDE 4, perhaps the time has come that the KDE folks start supporting Slackware within various tools such as KPackage, KNetworkmanager, etc.