[SOLVED] someone refresh my memory about xterm pls
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it did ask me if I wanted to delete a bunch of stuff during a few upgrade/dates ago, I said yes.
Not knowing what was removed, and not even what software asked you to do that (nothing shipped in Slackware does that AFAIK) the fastest way to get back a working Slackware current is here: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...4-current-iso/. Even more so as probably you also removed other important packages.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 12-22-2018 at 09:31 AM.
Not knowing what was removed, and not even what software asked you to do that (nothing shipped in Slackware does that AFAIK) the fastest way to get back a working Slackware current is here: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...4-current-iso/. Even more so as probably you also removed other important packages.
yeah it was a hand full, I'd had dups like a few days ago and I must have just figured it was something I added that caused it to be dups, and then just hit yes to quicken the process. where usually I'll read through it.
I do however remember it had vte in the listings, having installed something using vte2 I didn't pay that much mind to it.
I could essentially just mount this iso and loop its dirs issuing installpkg and it would theoretically install all missing packages?
or would I just 'untar' it then
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.txz" -exec installpkg {} \;
that should work yes?
isn't there two forms of package extentions being used in slack?
MOD:
nope I didn't think itd run a script, just trying to be fancy.
I do not run current and you seem to have received answers that could help.
But here is a link I have about xterm itself that has a change log and links to source: invisible-island.net
as far as I knew xterm comes as part of x.org, but now it seems to be in it's own package, which I never noticed prior to this post
John
yeah, VOID linux does not even have xterm being installed, and I have to install it. then I jumped back into slack and ran eterm and it wasn't there and my brain said what? I could have sworn xterm was in this one.
Thanks @Didier Spaier for providing me with a current source and @Paulo2 providing me with a means to not have to look too hard to find what I needed to restore.
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