Slackpack Package Manager

MysticalGroovy · 11-21-2009, 10:33 AM

hmmmm are you running Slackpack as root?, if not try "su slackpack" and then update the package list and try to download a package

(btw what desktop environment are you running? not a problem-related question its just Slackpack looks abit strange, xfce maybe? hehe)

manwichmakesameal · 11-21-2009, 01:09 PM

I'm using sudo to run it, I'll try as regular root. I'm using kde.

edit: Tried running it as root and I didn't get the error, but it doesn't update from the repo.

edit 2: Got it to work. I just omitted the /slackware64 at the end of the url and it worked. Are you planning on showing the available pkgs in the repo?

MysticalGroovy · 11-21-2009, 04:58 PM

Hey and thanks for your reply, glad to here you got it working

Well I was thinking to make Slackpack list all the available packets of the repositories in the repository list but this would cause a big pause if you have alot of repo's in the list, anyways I havent really decided if to do it or not, maybe I should give an option, lets say a "List Packages" button?

manwichmakesameal · 11-21-2009, 05:23 PM

Another way, maybe have a sort of drop down menu that lets you choose which repo you want to list packages from?

MysticalGroovy · 11-21-2009, 05:29 PM

hmm sounds cool too

halfx · 12-02-2009, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Another way, maybe have a sort of drop down menu that lets you choose which repo you want to list packages from?

It can be set manually... if i remember

zordrak · 12-04-2009, 03:23 PM

@MysticalGroovy

Please consider renaming Slackpack.

1. Slack is not a prefix you should be using, it should be reserved for official Slackware software.
2. Even if you were right to use the Slack prefix, I think Slackpack is distastefully close to Slackpkg, the official pkgtools wrapper included in Slackware.

MysticalGroovy · 12-04-2009, 04:23 PM

well there are hundreds of projects using "slack" in their names out there and they are not in the official Slackware project, why should `Slackpack` has a problem with it?

however I will try contacting Pat and see if he has a problem with it

manwichmakesameal · 12-04-2009, 06:40 PM

@ zordrak: You do realize that the whole "slack" thing comes from the Church of the Subgenius, right? I think MysticalGroovy is well within his/her right to use the word slack.

zordrak · 12-05-2009, 06:32 AM

Bottom line is, have you run it past Pat? It would seem more than reasonable to do so.

MysticalGroovy · 12-05-2009, 06:35 AM

yeap i did, he has no problem using the prefix "slack" in my application, because its not a linux distro, only an app for slackware linux... Pat also forwared my email to Piter Punk (the guy that codded slackpkg) to get his opinion about the name too.