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Old 02-10-2004, 01:15 PM   #16
oneandoneis2
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What exactly makes pkgtool admit that something is a package?

Every time I try and make it install, I tell it where the gzipped tar file is, and it quits back to the command line. I've yet to manage to install anything on my machine.
 
Old 02-10-2004, 02:00 PM   #17
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Originally posted by oneandoneis2
What exactly makes pkgtool admit that something is a package?

Every time I try and make it install, I tell it where the gzipped tar file is, and it quits back to the command line. I've yet to manage to install anything on my machine.
a slackware package has a .tgz extension and contains a directory named `install`,
which contains an installation script, `doinst.sh` and a description file for pkgtool to display, `slack-desc`
 
  


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