Where's 'less'?

staus · 11-22-2009, 10:07 PM

I just discovered that less doesn't seem to be part of Slackware 13 Current.
It's needed by man. I discovered this when I tried to read up on a package.
Anyone else find this problem?

Sid

GrapefruiTgirl · 11-22-2009, 10:15 PM

sasha@reactor:~$ which less
/usr/bin/less
sasha@reactor:~$

Nope, never found that problem with -current or 13.0/64 which I'm running now

-- did you do a selective install? I.E., not included everything?

Sasha

Lirey · 11-22-2009, 10:41 PM

Hi Sid,

It should be there. less is definitely one of the standard packages.

For Slackware 64 (13 or current) it is in the less-418-x86_64-3.txz package located in slackware64/a on the install disk(s) (or repository). For Slackware 32 it should be in slackware/a (but I'll admit I haven't checked).

As Sasha said, it should have been installed if you did a full install, but it may have been missed if you did a selective install.

Mike

Woodsman · 11-22-2009, 10:48 PM

Try using pkgtool --- view to see whether the package is installed. less is part of the "a" tree of packages.

staus · 11-23-2009, 10:13 PM

Thanks for the help.
I relied on slackpkg to keep current, and there must have been a hiccup.
I'm running the latest 'current' version obtainable.
Somehow less was dropped, but I used installpkg to reinstall it.
All is well again.