[SOLVED] Install pkgtools

While upgrading packages, removed pkgtools.

Is there a way to install subj?

Hmmm Maybe the install media has that.

I have file pkgtools-15.0-noarch-30.txz, but I can't call installpkg: Command not found

Originally Posted by Dober While upgrading packages, removed pkgtools. Is there a way to install subj?

The short and dirty way:

1. Download the right version of pkgtools from some mirror:
   pkgtools-14.2-noarch-10.txz  (for 14.2, obviously) or
   pkgtools-15.0-noarch-31.txz  (for -current, updated today)!!
2. Become root and go to the / directory
3. tar xaf <that pkgtools file>
(do not forget the directory in front of the filename)

This will leave an extra 'install' directory in the root, which you can remove with
4. rm -rf /install

Now you've got an "installpkg" script again, so now you can really install it with
5. installpkg <that pkgtools file>
which will actually not do much, but it will create the pkgtools entries in the installed packages and scripts dirs.

ehartman, thanks! You saved me! :-D

A more accepted solution would be to boot from the install media, follow the instructions in the paragraph starting with "In a pinch..", chroot to the crippled install and then run pkgtools from the install media.

ehartman's suggestion works great if you don't want to reboot. allend's suggestion would have you boot off the install media, which will put you to a mini Slackware install that will have pkgtools available. However, I don't think you'd be able to chroot, because then you'd be in your crippled install without pkgtools. Instead, you'd mount your root partition and run installpkg --root /location/to/mounted/root/partition /location/to/pkgtools-*.t?z to install it to a somewhere other than your current root.