The result of - echo $PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/user/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin

After issuing: upgradepkg --install-new slackware*/n/iputils-*.txz slackware*/ap/slackpkg-*.txz
I get file not found...

I looked in the /mnt/dvd/slackware64/n/ directory and found iputils-s20101006-x86_64-2.txz but not one that ends in .tgz
I tried the upgradepkg --install-new on the .txz file and it said it was being skipped because it was already installed.

Then I looked in the /mnt/dvd/slackware64/ap/ directory and found slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-8.tgz no not one that ends in .txz
I tried the upgradepkg --install-new on the .tgz file and it said it was being skipped because it was already installed.

It seems strange that I had exactly the opposite of what we were looking for. :-)

Here are the results of which slackpkg:
which: no slacpkg in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/user/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin)

Here are the results of which ping:
which: no ping in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/user/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin)

I made another typo in the results section regarding "which slack" but this was correct in the console.

Please post the output ofPlease use code-tags to post output from commands and the commands itself. If you don't know how to use them just look at the link in my signature.

Nah, I just wrote a bad example. I should have used *.t?z. My fault. In any case you confirmed they were both installed.

This however makes no sense (I'm ignoring your mistype, as I read your later comment).

I'll be very interested in your response to TobiSGD's question.

Actually I think TobiSGD meant:

Same for both...

cannot access /usr/sbin/slackpkg: no such file or directory
cannot access /usr/bin/slackpkg: no such file or directory

Thank you so much for digging into this with me!

I'm not sure if this is relevant but...
"locate slackpkg" gives: /var/log/packages/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-8

So you your package database /var/log/packages/* appears to not be in sync with what is actually installed/available. Hmm ...

What is your partitioning scheme? Did you put /usr on its own partition and if yes, is it actually mounted?

Newbie here...sorry :-) I accepted the defaults for most options.

I do know that /dev/sda2 is mounted at / and /usr is under / along with /etc, /home, /root, /lib, /opt, /var and list goes on.

Of course, seems to me that this thread attracts typos. ;)

Anyways, there seems to be something seriously wrong with this machine. I would recommend to make a clean re-install and see if the same or at least similar issues occur again. If so, this might as well be a hardware problem (failing disk or memory would come to my mind).

But before you do that, I would like to see the output of the commandsSince the output of the ls command will be rather lengthy (~420 files) please don't forget to use code-tags for the output of those commands.

df -h:

/dev/sda2 size: 222G - Used: 6.0G - Avail: 205G - Mounted /
tmpfs size: 1.9G - Used: 0G - Avail: 1.9G - Mounted /dev/shm
/dev/sr0 size: 2.3G - Used: 2.3G - Avail: 0G - Mounted /mnt/dvd

ls /usr/sbin resulted in about 151 results. I don't have a way to copy/paste here and that's a lot to type! :-)

I've installed 3 times with this media with the same result. I'm going to re-burn the media and try again. I'll post an update...

I have some extra software installed on my system, but not enough that I have 270 files more in that directory than a standard install.
Also, 6GB used space seems to little for me for a full install, but I currently have no clean install to compare.

While burning the media again I had some errors. I'm downloading again and will try again. I'll update... Thanks again.

What about

The thing is that while upgrading over the internet, I've managed to install a package but no files were copied and the resulting file in /var/log/packages was empty (emlisted 0 files) althoigh installpkg insisted, that it was already installed. Had to do removepkg and then again installpkg.

I have slack-14 32-bit standard full install and I have 415 entries in /usr/sbin. So you really are missing files in your system although everything seems to be installed.

For me full install takes around 11G although I've added Java and eclipse there already that might take some room but yes 6G is way too little.

Maybe the slackware iso you installed is a broken