I usually update my Slack installation every weekend if there are updates available. So today I noticed we had some upgrades and was glad to see "iftop" had been added. However when I ran "slackpkg update" it showed the system was up to date. OK...I figured maybe I'd updated and didn't remember, so I tried running "iftop" but no joy. Then I switched mirrors thinking maybe the one I was using was having issues but it still showed I was up to date. Any ideas??

please check if you are using -Current repository instead of -Stable

BINGO !! Thanks Willy.......DUH ! - I clicked on the -current changelog instead of -stable !! Thanks !!!!!

odd - same here. 'slackpkg search iftop' finds it in package list but shows [uninstalled] for both slackware-current. Just upgraded this morning. my /etc/slackpkg config look ok. I don't see any obvious reason why it was not picked up.

Ahh... if you 'slackpkg install-new' iftop and calligra shows up. That is the correct behavior. "upgrade" just upgrades previously installed packes but does not add new packages. See 'slackpkg help'

All is well - if you RTFM!

Edit: of course "stable" per Willy had to be the correct answer ;-) I often miss the obvious!

The real workflow is

It's written in the Slackpkg documentation...

Cheers

It should be

Without the red letters, of course.

It would work with red letters to. How one can obtain red letters on the commandline is left as an excercise to the reader

Markus

For a tty terminal, this will do the trick.

This works for xterm. It's not my favorite terminal emulator.

This would change just the color of the prompt in a terminal emulator running bash.

I like using the konsole terminal emulator under KDE, but I can't figure out how to get a red foreground color. Anyone know?

Whenever you perform a major update to Slackware you should run the following (in my opinion anyway)...
...to remove old third party packages (at least remove packages mostly that are tied to the kernel if a kernel update was announced, or replacements that are officially added to the main distribution) and then, as stated above, you should run...
...in that order to avoid problems.

However, always check the Changelog to look for [added] packages as often there aren't too many "new" packages, unless you are on the -current distribution, and also occasionally check for [removed] packages as well to uninstall anything taken out of the distribution as well.

Wooops !

Sorry... That's what happen when you work to long on M$Window$...

Well, the correct command is and note that when doing clean-system at first, you may possibly break your system. As far as I remember it is recommended to
in this order.

Markus