Installing Dropline Gnome in Slackware 9.1

simeandrews · 06-01-2004, 05:14 PM

Hey,

When I try to use Dropline Installer in Slackware 9.1, this message comes up:

Code:

Error: Your system is missing required software to install Dropline GNOME.  The programs and libraries listed as 'not found' must be installed in order to proceed.  Please ensure the following Slackware packages are installed:
 
        aspell cdparanoia elflibs grep perl
        pilot-link pkgtools sed textutils wget
 
These can be downloaded from ftp.slackware.com and installed using installpkg.

Could someone plz tell me how to get these files? I know to go to ftp.slackware.com, but I don't know what to do from there

Thanks in advance

ringwraith · 06-01-2004, 05:48 PM

If you installed from CD, they are on there. You must have chosen to not install very many packages.

usercsr · 06-01-2004, 07:56 PM

Go to Slackware packages
Search for each package that you want to download and download it.

Install the packages (as 'root') as follows :

Code:

installpkg 'package_name'

I am not sure if this answers the question or not

AxelFendersson · 06-01-2004, 10:25 PM

Since you're missing pkgtool, you have a major problem, since you need it to install packages. I suspect you'll need to install it by hand. Start by downloading this package:

ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/a/pkgtools-9.1.0-i486-4.tgz

Next, untar it (tar xzf pkgtools-9.1.0-i486-4.tgz) into your / directory. Then:
cd /install
chmod 744 doinst.sh
./doinst.sh

You should now be able to run pkgtool. Check that it works, then choose 'Exit'. Remove the /install dirctory, you don't need it any more.

Now, so that your system knows that pkgtool is installed, you'll need to install it properly using pkgtool itself, so run installpkg /path/to/pkgtools-9.1.0-i486-4.tgz

Next up, grab the other missing packages from either the slackware ftp site, or a suitable mirror:

ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/l/aspell-0.50.3-i386-3.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/ap/cdparanoia-IIIalpha9.8-i386-1.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/a/elflibs-9.1.0-i486-2.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/a/grep-2.5-i386-2.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/d/perl-5.8.0-i486-5.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/l/pilot-link-0.11.8-i486-2.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/a/sed-3.02-i486-1.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/a/coreutils-5.0-i486-4.tgz
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/slackware/n/wget-1.8.2-i386-2.tgz

Pop them into a directory to gether, cd to that directory, and enter
installpkg *

Hopefully that should get you fixed up.