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Old 05-26-2010, 01:46 PM   #1
nonaguy
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Messed up with slackpkg


Hey guys, still a bit of a linux noob here. I messed up when I chose my server for slackpkg updates, I chose one for Slackware13 rather then Slackware13 64. This caused some issues when I accepted the updates. I got a fair bit up and running again, but one thing that seems to be messed up is my cron.hourly scripts. I am not entirely sure what happened, but they are not running. I was hoping someone here might have some insights as to what I could do. Thanks.
 
Old 05-26-2010, 01:55 PM   #2
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Boot from a Slackware64 installation DVD. Mount the partition that has your Slackware installation. Find out which packages got replaced with 64-bit versions:
Code:
grep /mount point/var/log/packages | grep x86_64
Use upgradepkg to replace them with the 32-bit versions again.

Last edited by dugan; 05-26-2010 at 01:56 PM.
 
Old 05-26-2010, 05:52 PM   #3
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Actually I think he chose an x86 mirror for his 64bit install. So 'grep -v x86_64' might be better. )P.S In theory you can ignore any "noarch" packages but it wouldn't hurt to re-install those just to be sure.
 
  


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