Pkgtool, ls, cat all not found?
 

Hi!, my question is how do I reinstall the ls command and pkgtool command so they can function again. I have slackware 10.1 and in the best effort removal of extra apps I don't need I think I removed the packages for ls, cat etc. How do I go about reinstalling this, I can't even do a pkgtool anymore because I get the errors below. I do not wan't to reinstall the entire OS again, is there any other options? If I recompile the kernel will these commands come back? Any suggestions will be helpful

Thanks.

root@(none):~# ls
-bash: ls: command not found
cat
-bash: cat: command not found
/sbin/pkgtool: line 162: cat: command not found/sbin/pkgtool: lin/sbin/pkgtool: line 162: cat: command not found
/sbin/pkgtool: line 163: rm: command not found
/sbin/pkgtool: line 330: chmod: command not found
/sbin/pkgtool: line 331: chmod: command not found
/sbin/pkgtool: line 697: chmod: command not found
/sbin/pkgtool: line 698: chmod: command not found

Boot with Slackware cdrom. Mount your harddisk somewhere like /mnt/hdd by using: mount /dev/hdXX /mnt/hdd
and then install any package you want using the command: installpkg -root /mnt/hdd pkgname

did you remove coreutils??

have you tried booting with your install cd and reinstalling coreutils from the cd?

Thanks for the help
 

Hi! Thanks for the help, I'll give it a try tonight.