pkgtool: remove won't work
so when i open up pkgtool and go down to "remove" and hit enter, it goes directly to a screen that says:
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i've been using linux for about 4 days now, so i'm pretty new to it, but i am gaining a much bigger understanding of it and like to think that i'm pretty good with computers. any help would be greatly appreciate. thank you, eric |
Hi,
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You should use 'man' to find out about commands. You could look at Linux Newbie Admin Guide to get a good reference. You could also reference 'Slackware-Links' |
i'm pretty sure i already was root, because i can't even start pkgtool if i'm not root.
i think i might have something to do with installing gnome. i was trying to get it to work from gnome slackbuild, but it was going crazy so i uninstalled it and now pkgtool works fine. thanks for the help though. |
I saw someone reporting this problem awhile back -exactly after installing gnome. It's not a problem with gnome, but that the list of packages is too long. If you 'decode' the error message it gave you taking just the second field:
/var/log/setup/tmp/rmscript: line 1: /usr/bin/dialog: Argument list too long. I supposed that the problem had been addressed as it seemed that it might begin to show up even with a standard installation (now that X is nearly 300 packages). Yeah, I just found the thread here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...kgtool-576207/ There is a link to a patch but the link is incorrect. Here's the corrected link to the patch: http://www.inghi.it/download/prova-pkgtool.tar.bz2 I haven't checked to see if this actually works so proceed at your own risk. |
i see. well thanks. i'll keep that in mind.
eric |
Get pkgtool from current. It's already fixed.
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