Ok now I am feeling slightly stupid.

I have upgraded this pkg before. it somehow was no longer installed? I could not find it installed anyways.

it has been showing up on the updates one version lesser then what I installed using current on a standard 64 14.2 install because it works where the other one does not. So I have been not installing that one. always un-selecting it when running upgrade-all

when I plug in my iPhone I am no longer getting both sides of the phone, only the system said not app side. so I started looking into it, that is what lead me to this post.

libmobiledevice.x.x.x.x.x.x
sudo slackpkg upgrade different pkg higher version.

now when it runs I get that oops like doing a cat on an executable or tar output.

when I said ok fine and ran slackpkg upgrade-all to in install that less version one just to see what I'd see now I cannot access my iPhone whatsoever - I get an error instead.

never mind

now I know why I was getting commands confused


userx%slackwhere ⚡ ~ ⚡> sudo installpkg upgrade /media/slack-mirror/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libimobiledevice-1.2.0-x86_64-2.txz

even though it is still only giving me the system side. that is a libmobiledevice vs apple iSO thing.

installpkg upgrade packagename is not a valid command. That is why you got the error that it can't install upgrade.

Keep in mind, slackpkg should generally only be used if you need to do something from a mirror (usually used to upgrade packages). If you're dealing with local packages, you'd want to use installpkg or upgradepkg. You'd just run installpkg /location/to/package.txz or upgradepkg /location/to/package.txz. If a package already exists, you need to use upgradepkg. If it is the same version, you force it to reinstall using the --reinstall flag (upgradepkg --reinstall /location/to/package.txz). If you're not sure you have the package installed and you're too lazy to check, you can also pass --install-new, which will do install instead of upgrade if the package doesn't exist.

If you wanted to use slackpkg for this, you'd need to have /etc/slackpkg/mirror set to whatever mirror you want (even if it is a local one), then you simply issue slackpkg install libimobiledevice and nothing more. You don't provide a file location or version. Just the name of the package.

I didn't even see this:
[quote]
userx%slackwhere ⚡ ~ ⚡> sudo installpkg upgrade /media/slack-mirror/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libimobiledevice-1.2.0-x86_64-2.txz
Cannot install upgrade: file not found
[quote]

because I seen this,
it installed it.

yeah plainly I get confused between installpkg and slackpg.
which to use and when or forgetting about one and using the other. Not using them frequently does not help.

That command was the equivalent of running slackpkg install package1 package2. It thought the "upgrade" was package1, which is why it said it couldn't be found, so it moved onto package2, which was libimobiledevice.