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03-01-2006, 05:42 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: North England
Distribution: Slackware 10.2 (kernel 2.6.13)
Posts: 74
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Help please!!! Pkginstall
New to Slackware,in fact Linux in general, and just out of interest I d/loaded kde3.5, from kde.org, did the md5 biz, all ok.
First have I mucked up by burning the pkg contents to cd without each one un-packed first (still in .tgz format) read file just stated use cmd "installpkg name_of_file.tgz"
Error is "cannot install name_of_file.tgz: package does not end in .tgz"
How do I get cmd line to read cdrom as current directory, tried all ways I can think of. Btw Cdrom is mounted.
Some pointing in the right direction would be much appreciated.
I am just tinkering at mo to pick up on commands etc
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03-01-2006, 07:56 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Leipzig/Germany
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 1,687
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Am I getting you wrong or did you indeed type literally:
installpkg name_of_file.tgz
That is not a package name but an example line with the actual name and path to be substituted for: name_of_file.tgz
path meaning: where on your cd (i.e. /mnt/cdrom/bla-bla..)
actual name: you get it...
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03-01-2006, 07:58 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Jogja, Indonesia
Distribution: Slackware-Current
Posts: 4,830
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download from Slackware's mirror instead. It's already in binary format, so you only need to upgradepkg *.tgz and it will be installed in your system. You can read my short writings at http://www.informatix.or.id/willy/up...-slackware.php
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03-02-2006, 04:42 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Lower Rhine region, Germany
Distribution: Slackware64 current
Posts: 1,649
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And make sure that the name of the package and path includes no spaces -- or give it to installpkg in double quotes.
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03-02-2006, 01:22 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: North England
Distribution: Slackware 10.2 (kernel 2.6.13)
Posts: 74
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jomen. Yes you did get me wrong.
I was typing /dev/cdrom/package_name.tgz. but no joy.
Got it now. Thanx all
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03-02-2006, 02:10 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
Posts: 2,247
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If you coped with this problem, it would be good for others if you share your solution.
If not, try copying it to your root partition and see if it helps.
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03-02-2006, 03:38 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Leipzig/Germany
Distribution: Arch
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so I did not get you wrong - not completely...
package_name.tgz is to be substituted for the real name...and you don't go through the device-file but through the mount-point
...nevermind
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03-08-2006, 06:00 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: North England
Distribution: Slackware 10.2 (kernel 2.6.13)
Posts: 74
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My apologies Jomen. I realised my mistake was /dev/cdrom and should have been /mnt/cdrom. Sorry for the late apology. Thanks
Last edited by captain chaos; 03-08-2006 at 06:02 PM.
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