I know it was a not a good idea to do it, but I did it anyway (20/20 hindsight). I used swaret to upgrade to current. I read through the list of pkgs to be upgraded and I thought that they all looked safe, so one-by-one I ok'd the upgrade. After the upgrade, the first thing I noticed was that my eth was not working. Easy enough, I opened a terminal, su'd, and issued the netconfig command. command not found.
Okay, let's try the KDE network tool. Enabled eth1, and lo, it works! Great! Now to upgrade some third-party pkgs, like wine. So I downloaded the updated pkgs and attempted to use upgradepkg. Again, command not found. I tried pkgtool. command not found. So, I searched the fora here at LQ. I found this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=364621

I downloaded the source package from -current/sources/a/pkgtools.tar.gz and untarred it in / as root.
I still have no pkgtool. ls -l /var/logs/packages shows that pkgtools is installed.

2006-08-25 16:13 pkgtools-11.0.0-i486-2

however, the command is still not found.

root@darkstar:/# pkgtool
bash: pkgtool: command not found
root@darkstar:/# which pkgtool
which: no pkgtool in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin)
root@darkstar:/#

Can someone please help me fix this? Please no flames about swaret/slapt-get. Lesson learned.

That won't do much, because that file is only a directory tree.

Try doing the same with the actual pkgtools-11.0.0-i486-2 package.

If that still doesn't work, I'd strongly suggest running a backup of your important stuff, then doing a complete re-install. You can't be 100% sure what else has been damaged.

Thanks rkelsen for pointing that out. I was completely misunderstanding what was written in the post I quoted. I re-read it, following your line of thought and fixed pkgtool!