slackpkg and awk problem

dockpunk · 10-02-2007, 08:50 PM

i just got myself a vps running slack 12. the install was ridiculously minimal so i grabbed slackpkg from /extra and installed to ease the process of getting eveything i need. uncommented the mirror i like to use and tried to do a slackpkg update but i get the error

Code:

awk package not found! Please install awk before you run slackpkg,
as slackpkg cannot function without awk.

the gawk package has been installed fine, so i really don't get what the problem is. i've been running slack since 10.0 and use slackpkg on 2 of my home machines but have never run into this problem. are there possibly some other packages that include deps which i should check for?

mRgOBLIN · 10-02-2007, 11:23 PM

Do you have "which" installed? If so what does the command

Code:

which awk

return?

:Q

dockpunk · 10-03-2007, 04:33 PM

i'll have to look into that, i know 'slocate' was missing, and i'm pretty sure 'which' was as well. running whereis awk shows it to be in all the expected places though.
i'm already having issues with this vps provider though, so if i end up dropping them the problem i'm having with slackpkg wont really matter anymore.
if they get everything cleared and slack 12 back on the server (somehow overnight it was switched to CentOS for no apparent reason) i will check the output of 'which awk'

dive · 10-03-2007, 04:41 PM

In one of the latest updates the which package was moved into its own package. Sounds like you don't have it installed.

dockpunk · 10-03-2007, 04:53 PM

i'm taking a guess the vps template the used at creation was the user submitted one at openvz.org. meaning http://wiki.openvz.org/Slackware_template_creation
should be the list of all packages i have, and as you said, it doesnt look like i have 'which', though gawk is installed by default so that confuses me a bit. as you can see from that list, it is really a bare bones install which is why i'm trying to get slackpkg running as opposed to having to wget every package i need. actually wget wasnt even there, i had to ftp to a slack mirror just to get that.

mRgOBLIN · 10-03-2007, 05:58 PM

Yes it's not the fact that you don't have awk causing the problem. The problem is that slackpkg uses `which awk` to determine if awk is installed. This test is failing due to 'which' being missing. Just install the which pkg manually and see how you go.

dockpunk · 10-03-2007, 06:20 PM

ah i see. thanks, as soon as all the problems on the providers end are fixed i'll be sure to install that.

edit:
everything works fine now after installing which. thanks again.

XGizzmo · 10-04-2007, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dockpunk

are there possibly some other packages that include deps which i should check for?

Yes there are read CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT in the root directory of your install disk.