Where did 'which' go?
 

I am upgrading from kernal 2.2 to 2.4 and I seem to have lost 'which' in the process (We're talking Slackware, BTW). So what program has replaced 'which?'

"which which" returns /usr/bin/which (bash shell script) - Debian derived system, not Slack.
What's your path look like ???.

Edit: forgot to mention; 2.6 kernel

rdx

Probably a path issue. Try locate witch.

Edit: oops, which not witch

which what ? :scratch:

Yeah, well "which which" returns :

bash: which: command not found

I have seen it as "what" then what became part of SCCS and it became which but it seems to be missing here. Anyway, echo $PATH returns :

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

"which" is a command in /usr/bin/ supplied by util-linux. The location is pretty standard.

It appears that it got left out of the Slakeware 11 dist. I went back to the site and checked and found it, but not in the 'a' set where it belongs. Anyway I DL'd and installed it. BTW it went into /bin.

There are actually alternatives to which and there are various reasons to do it one way or the other.

I have slack 11 and which is there, /usr/bin/which

I'm also missing 'file' I just discovered. I got Slack 11 from the Utah.edu mirror and these are missing (and who knows what else). I have been able to go back to the Slack site and find the progs listed and get them but they are not in the 'a' disk set where they belong. Odd. I guess it just proves, "You get what you pay for," or, in this case, "You get which you pay for."

Which in Slackware 11.0 was split away from the bin package into its own package (named which ofc). The same happened to 'file'.

When upgrading you should always read the changelog, and, for 11.0 and up, this:
http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar..._AND_HINTS.TXT

BTW you would probably get much better response in Slackware forum than software.

Easy for you to say. RTFM! LOL. My sys dies and I'm trying to get it alive again. How many issues, hardware and software involved? Who knows, it's all a blur. Okay, rant finished. I looked at the CHANGES ... file and didn't see what I'm looking for. I was using version 7.1, now I'm at 11.0 (or 11.1, not sure) so I suppose I need to look at all the docs for all the releases between. Not practical. That's why I post the question, so someone who knows can share their knowledge and save me time.

That said, what else is missing? It's (slightly) irritating to find the next missing piece and have to stop what I'm doing and fetch the bogie. And, how does one know whether this is a software issue or a distribution one? By the time one knows all these answers they have no more questions.

There really are an awful lot of changes between 7.1 and 11/current it might be easier to install from scratch. Otherwise the only way is to keep on what you are doing and solving each problem as it comes.

There are a lot of additions and removals in the Changes and Hints, so have a look in there as each problem occurs and you should find an answer. I have had 11.0 and -current running fine so far, so there really shouldn't be distribution problems, only problems with updating.

Rdx

I do not use slack, but think about this in the windows world. You have just updated from win95 to vista. Now, would you expect everything to be the same? No, progress occurs. Sometimes I do not understand why certain things are not standard on a new release. But as long as I can add those missed things back in, I am not going to get upset. It also puts a bright star on why we need to keep current. As big a PITA as it is, keeping no more than 1 version out of date prevents a lot of headaches like this.

Good Luck
Lazlow

Maybe I said this wrong. I installed Slackware 11 from scratch on a newly formatted HD. The fact that I was previously running Slackware 7.1 on another disk is incidental. My point is that I installed the dist from the mirror and found that I was missing std apps. I am trying to figure out what else I am missing. How now?