Hi there fellow slackers!

I just downloaded (yesterday actually) and installed (today) a fresh version of Slackware -current from alienbase.nl. I'm not very familiar with -current, but I noticed two problems until now.

First problem : when updating slackpkg, the script told me that my version was not -current but 14.2 (because I was retrieving from a -current mirror, of course).

Second problem, for which I'm asking for your guidance, it appears that pkgtools are nowhere to be found (see attached screenshot). I checked it with locate, and indeed, the script isn't there on my system, although "setup" went pretty smoothly and with nothing noticeable (let's just make it clear that I'm not a pure noob, I have installed Slackware - both stable, current, and live iso's - for like a hundred of times in my life at least).

So I downloaded the package but now I'm confronted with a classical loop problem : how to install this install script without itself? I should use "setup" I guess, in order to succeed?... But how exactly?

Thanks in advance.

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pkgtool
is the proper command.

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Hello,

It's pkgtool without the terminal s... (which I don't use).
I use updatepkg (installpkg, remove), slackpkg, ...
Or script I write.

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Thanks a lot for your first input.
Indeed I made a mistake on that one, but of course, the problem with pkgtool appeared when trying to use installpkg and all the other tools. I tried everything really.

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Ok, I'm sorry, when switching in root it appears, I really feel stupid! :-D

This is because the locations those files are at are not included in a normal user's PATH. Anything in /sbin/ or /usr/sbin/ is designed to be used by the root user and so they are not included in the default PATH for regular users. You can call them directly with their full location (ie. /usr/sbin/pkgtool), but the programs might have limited or no functionality with a regular user.

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Ok thanks a lot. All of this would never had happened if I hadn't been away from Slackware and "serious" usage of computers for such a long time! I used to (instinctively at least) "know" those things... -_-'