how do I uncomment a mirror in slackpkg?

guruwammabe · 03-20-2007, 08:04 AM

I realise that this is a rather silly question but I have been unable to find an answer, there was a post back in 2005 but that referred to the kernal. I was wondering, do I use emacs to do this? If someone could just point my in the right direction I would be most appreciative.

Plus, when I was installing slackpkg...tgz, all the information I read about it said do the ./configure make make install, when I tried to use installpkg it worked. Any ideas why?

Thanks in advance for your help with my idiotic question

erklaerbaer · 03-20-2007, 08:31 AM

edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
"#" means "this line is a comment"

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Plus, when I was installing slackpkg...tgz, all the information I read about it said do the ./configure make make install, when I tried to use installpkg it worked. Any ideas why?

i think you are confusing something. slackpkg does not need to be compiled. installpkg slackpkg-...

guruwammabe · 03-20-2007, 09:20 AM

okay I was able to edit the file using vi but for some reason the commands to let me exit and save :x(correct?)

don't seem to be working. I feel like a complete noob, which I am, but it doesn't make me feel any better.

Thanks for you quick reply to my question

erklaerbaer · 03-20-2007, 09:30 AM

it's :q to quit and :wq to write and quit. if you are interested in vi and have about 30 minutes you may want to run vimtutor.

mattydee · 03-20-2007, 10:58 AM

Personally, I like mcedit much better... From my newbish perspective: I don't see why I need to jump through hoops and go through 30 mins of tutorial just to edit a text file.

pdw_hu · 03-20-2007, 12:05 PM

You don't. Vi(m)'s "superiority" is something you can't explain. If you force yourself to learn and use it for a few weeks you will see what the vim ppl are talking about

guruwammabe · 03-21-2007, 04:33 AM

Thank you both for your help. I will admit that mcedit was much easier; and I really don't wanna get into a debate about editors...

guruwammabe · 03-21-2007, 06:45 AM

I was able to uncomment a mirror and update; all without trashing my installation.
Thank you for your help

nutronix · 03-22-2007, 02:55 PM

no danger of scrapping your installation ; whenever you are working on a sistem file just save a copy of the file first.

In this instance , as root = cp -v /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf /home/neutron/Desktop

If you screw up editing your file = cp -v /home/neutron/Desktop/slackpkg.conf /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf
......and vi is easy as pie to use....just practice a little bit as user....i do double ZZ to write and quit ;-)