Please, stop laughing!
After a complete update of my slackware system with swaret (set to current) "pkgtool" wouldn't
start (ive had this problem before and fixed it by reinstalling pkgtools with swaret) so i tried
"swaret --remove pkgtool" and that worked, and when i then tried
"swaret --update && swaret install pkgtool" it sed that swaret needed pkgtools to install stuff :/ .
I searched for pkgtools on slackware.com and found the package.... in .tgz format :S .
So i can't install pkgtools since i NEED pkgtools to install pkgtools.... :S
What now?

sorry, but does...
Not work?

And if not...

Boot off the 2nd slackware CD,
mount your filesystem,
chroot into your filesystem,
installpkg the package,
reboot into system.

done.

Nope

2nd Slackware disc? I only have one :S .

If the previous suggestion doesn't work out for you, but it should - download the source
from ftp, unzip, and in the sbin directory is the installpkg script. might have to chmod it,
but its there.

just a suggestion,
-tw

Okay ill try that after new year, got to go now. Thx for the help.

I think you will have to extract the binary from the package and manually install it by moving it and its component parts to /sbin

Don't feel bad, I had some linking issues withe glibc, so I removed that and gcc. This also removed my *entire* /usr/bin directory.

Thank god for backups.

If you have the old pkgtools .tgz, couldn't you just untar it in the root directory? This would amount to a manual install. (Unless you cleaned it up, you should be able to find it in /var/log/removed_packages.)

Then you could use installpkg so that the package info is placed in /var/log/packages and the script (if there is one) is run.

Garry

Good idea, major.tom. That's basically what I would do. The only thing is that the file /var/log/removed_packages/pkgtools-... contains only the list of files, so we need to do Then we can use installpkg to install pkgtools to finish.

Oops. Good catch, beanerjo.

Obviously I misunderstood how those folders are used. I thought it just archived the .tgz's. Now that I look, I see you're absolutely correct.

Garry