pkgtool seems broke

linuxbird · 08-10-2015, 08:52 AM

After moving from 13.1 to 14.1 (finally) on one of my systems, I went to install a package, and got an error line 643 installpkg command not found. The last line of the script.

So I added another package to the directory, and then got that same error twice, when I selected the current directory for packages.

It has been a while since I have had to install anything (obviously) and I thought I would float this in case someone knows what the problem is.

Thanks.

bassmadrigal · 08-10-2015, 09:28 AM

How did you upgrade? Did you go right from 13.1 to 14.1 skipping 13.37 and 14.0? If so, that is unsupported and can cause a lot of problems. Did you follow the CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT and UPGRADE.TXT in each release?

Did you upgrade the pkgtools package? If you did a wildcard for *.txz, it would've missed it because it remains a .tgz file. So a better upgrade path would be to use *.t?z

http://packages.slackware.com/?r=sla...1-noarch-2.tgz

linuxbird · 08-10-2015, 09:53 AM

I did a pkgtool remove of all packages and then an install into my root partition.

linuxbird · 08-10-2015, 09:54 AM

Also, 32 bit not 64 bit.

Alien Bob · 08-10-2015, 10:15 AM

You're not running a command like "sudo /sbin/pkgtool" are you?

linuxbird · 08-10-2015, 10:16 AM

I used su -l

linuxbird · 08-10-2015, 10:20 AM

I was just able to install a ffmpeg and another package from slacky. Now I have to find out why. So I am getting there...