[SOLVED] someone refresh my memory about xterm pls

BW-userx · 12-22-2018, 09:03 AM

I have a few distros that I bounce back and forth on, and I swear I thought Slackware has xterm installed on it.

Because it is not there anymore.
urxvt is the only basic terminal that seems to be installed on slack current in my system.

well it just popped in to my head to check the changelog,

Fri Dec 14 01:49:19 UTC 2018
.....

x/xterm-339-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

but

Code:

$ ls /var/log/packages/xterm | grep xterm
ls: cannot access '/var/log/packages/xterm': No such file or directory

so what directory do i have to go to in order to get that off the web?

ut oh

Code:

$ xfce4-terminal
xfce4-terminal: error while loading shared libraries:
libvte-2.91.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory

I think something has gone awry on my system.

it did ask me if I wanted t delete a bunch of stuff during a few upgrade/dates ago, I said yes.

Paulo2 · 12-22-2018, 09:19 AM

You have to reinstall those packages

Code:

ls /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/xt
xterm-340-x86_64-1     xtrans-1.3.5-noarch-2  
paulo@paulobash~$ grep -w libvte /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/*
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/vte-0.54.3-x86_64-1:usr/lib64/libvte-2.91.so.0.5400.3
paulo@paulobash~$ grep xterm-340 /var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt
x/xterm-340-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
paulo@paulobash~$ grep vte-0.54.3 /var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt
l/vte-0.54.3-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

Didier Spaier · 12-22-2018, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

I think something has gone awry on my system.

it did ask me if I wanted to delete a bunch of stuff during a few upgrade/dates ago, I said yes.

Not knowing what was removed, and not even what software asked you to do that (nothing shipped in Slackware does that AFAIK) the fastest way to get back a working Slackware current is here: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...4-current-iso/. Even more so as probably you also removed other important packages.

BW-userx · 12-22-2018, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Not knowing what was removed, and not even what software asked you to do that (nothing shipped in Slackware does that AFAIK) the fastest way to get back a working Slackware current is here: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...4-current-iso/. Even more so as probably you also removed other important packages.

yeah it was a hand full, I'd had dups like a few days ago and I must have just figured it was something I added that caused it to be dups, and then just hit yes to quicken the process. where usually I'll read through it.

I do however remember it had vte in the listings, having installed something using vte2 I didn't pay that much mind to it.

I could essentially just mount this iso and loop its dirs issuing installpkg and it would theoretically install all missing packages?

or would I just 'untar' it then

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.txz" -exec installpkg {} \;

that should work yes?

isn't there two forms of package extentions being used in slack?

MOD:
nope I didn't think itd run a script, just trying to be fancy.

jmccue · 12-22-2018, 10:14 AM

I do not run current and you seem to have received answers that could help.

But here is a link I have about xterm itself that has a change log and links to source:
invisible-island.net

as far as I knew xterm comes as part of x.org, but now it seems to be in it's own package, which I never noticed prior to this post

John

BW-userx · 12-22-2018, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmccue

I do not run current and you seem to have received answers that could help.

But here is a link I have about xterm itself that has a change log and links to source:
invisible-island.net

as far as I knew xterm comes as part of x.org, but now it seems to be in it's own package, which I never noticed prior to this post

John

yeah, VOID linux does not even have xterm being installed, and I have to install it. then I jumped back into slack and ran eterm and it wasn't there and my brain said what? I could have sworn xterm was in this one.

BW-userx · 12-22-2018, 11:17 AM

Thanks @Didier Spaier for providing me with a current source and @Paulo2 providing me with a means to not have to look too hard to find what I needed to restore.