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but all I got is a very weird list of upgrades. Some packages don't even have names. It looks like a ncurses glitch or something (as in the attached picture). I have no idea what happened. I tried to delete
Code:
/var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist
and
Code:
/var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt
but this didn't help. Any suggestions?
This is my slackpkgplus.conf
Code:
# Configuration for slackpkg+. See /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/README for more details
# Enable (on) / Disable (off) slackpkg+
SLACKPKGPLUS=on
# set to '0' to never show the download progress bar
# set to '1' to show the bar only in download packages (default)
# set to '2' to always show the download bar
# set to '3' for a debug mode
VERBOSE=1
# By default slackpkg+ deny to install 32bit packages.
#
# Set this flag to 'on' allow slackpkg+ to install 32bit packages on a 64bit slackware
# installation (possibly unsafe). Please, do not install both 32 and 64bit of the same
# package to avoid problems, and NEVER upgrade existant 64bit packages with relative 32bit package.
# Do not forget to install the multilibs.
ALLOW32BIT=off
# Enable (1) / Disable (0) the official slackpkg blacklist. May be useful to temporarily skip
# the slackware blacklist. You can also override it from command line:
# 'USEBL=0 slackpkg upgrade-all'
USEBL=1
# Add custom option to 'wget'.
# You can solve the repository indisponibility issue by set a timeout here
WGETOPTS="--timeout=20 --tries=2"
# If you want replace wget with another downloader search DOWNLOADCMD in documentation
# at /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/README
#DOWNLOADCMD="wget -O"
# Use the cache for metadata files (CHECKSUMS.md5,...). Enable it (on) to speedup the slackpkg update
# process by downloading just new files (see README). Disabled by default (off)
CACHEUPDATE=off
# You can download-only by setting DOWNLOADONLY to 'on'. You may (you should) also use it in commandline
# for example: "DOWNLOADONLY=on slackpkg upgrade-all". Useful for large upgrades.
#DOWNLOADONLY=off
# Enable (on) / Disable (off) notification events (see notifymsg.conf)
#ENABLENOTIFY=off
# Enable (on) / Disable (off) the greylist feature. See /etc/slackpkg/greylist
GREYLIST=on
# Defines if commands 'search' and 'file-search' are case-sensitive (on) or not (off). Default to "on"
SENSITIVE_SEARCH=on
# Select the show order in dialogbox. Available "package" "repository" "tag" "path" "arch"
SHOWORDER=package
# If two or more repositories contains some same packages, you can specify
# from which repository you prefer to search it.
# The syntax is "<repository_name>:<package_name>"
# Accepts regular expressions. To give priority to an entire repository use "<repository_name>"
# Examples:
#PKGS_PRIORITY=( restricted:vlc )
# OR
#PKGS_PRIORITY=( myrepo )
#
# if you have two reporitories to give priority you must set both in the same line
#PKGS_PRIORITY=( myrepo restricted:vlc )
#
# if you want to install 'ktown' repository you must set it here
#PKGS_PRIORITY=( ktown )
# and DO NOT MISS to read special instruction on /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/repositories.txt
#
# If you want a multilib system, uncomment the multilib repository and set:
PKGS_PRIORITY=( multilib slacky:darktable slacky:lensfun)
#
# (Use /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/setupmultilib.sh to setup a multilib configuration)
#
# For both multilib and ktown set
#PKGS_PRIORITY=( multilib ktown )
# Otherwise you can try to upgrade a package from a repository that contains a package with the
# same tag of the already installed package. Tipically that means to upgrade a package from the
# same author of the already installed package.
# Note that this method may not works properly where two repositories contains a package with the
# same tag.
# Set TAG_PRIORITY to 'on' to enable this function
TAG_PRIORITY=off
# List repositories you want to use (defined below)
# remember to launch 'slackpkg update' if you modify that row.
REPOPLUS=( multilib slackpkgplus restricted alienbob slacky )
# Define mirrors (uncomment one or more mirror; remember to add it to REPOPLUS)
# GPG Note: after adding a repository, you must to run 'slackpkg update gpg'
# some repositories as salixos or slackel, have a partial GPG support;
# for that repositories you may need to run slackpkg with 'slackpkg -checkgpg=off ...'
# Slackware 14.1 - x86_64
MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.1/
MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/14.1/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['restricted']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/14.1/x86_64/
MIRRORPLUS['slacky']=http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware64-14.1/
# use this to keep the slackpkg+ package updated
MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/
# Slackware current - x86_64
#MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/current/
# Local repository:
#MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=file://repositories/alien/sbrepos/14.1/x86/
#
# Local packages (you do not need metadata nor 'slackpkg update' command):
#MIRRORPLUS['myrepo']=dir://repositories/mypackages/
#
# Supported Repositories (see /usr/doc/slackpkg+-* for details and notes):
#
#Supports GPG
#slackpkgplus: http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+/
#multilib: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/
#alienbob: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{x86,x86_64}/
#ktown: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{latest,testing}/{x86,x86_64}/
#restricted: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/{x86,x86_64}/
#slacky: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware{,64}-{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
#mleddesktop: http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/desktop-{14.1,14.2}-{32,64}bit/
#mledextras: http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/extras-{14.1,14.2}-{32,64}bit/
#mles: http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/server-{14.0,14.1,14.2}-{32,64}bit/
#msb: http://slackware.org.uk/msb/{14.0,14.1,testing}/{1.6,1.8,1.10,1.12}/{x86,x86_64}/
#slackers: http://ponce.cc/slackers/repository/
#slacke18: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/pub/slacke18/slackware{,64,arm}-14.1/
#studioware: http://studioware.org/files/packages/slackware{,64}-{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
#slackonly: http://packages.slackonly.com/pub/packages/{14.1,current}-{x86,x86_64}/
#rlworkman: http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/{13.37,14.0,14.1,current}/
#slackel: http://www.slackel.gr/repo/{i486,x86_64}/{current,kde5}/
#
#Does NOT support GPG
#salixos(*): http://download.salixos.org/{i486,x86_64}/{13.37,14.0,14.1}/
Thank you @zerouno. I really don't know why I'm often unable to find those simple solutions myself, but luckily the people here are helpful as ever and don't just go YSATI at me
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