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Old July 15th, 2002, 03:20 PM
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Slackware pkgtool
Does anyone have any successful experience with pkgtool? It seems to expect .tgz 'd binaries, but stuff is usually only downloadable as tar.gz source, or rpm's ... here's an example, what process would you go through ( from downloading from freshmeat onwards ) to install Grip.. I did if from source last night, because I couldn't find a .tgz download for pkgtool to bite into.... I'm confused

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".tgz" is the short name for ".tar.gz" - gzipped tar-files. (files first passed to "tar" and then the whole result archive zipped.)

renaming should do no harm to the files. and pkgtool should work with both anyway...
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that's what I figured, but pkgtool barfed at the .tar.gz file I offered, saying it was expecting a .tgz file. I was then thrown off course by a colleage who said that a .tgz file is a compressed binary, not a source archive... seems wierd to me. I haven't yet seen any projects on the OSDN offering .tgz downloads. Have you?

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I just found out that Slackware and pkgtool use the .tgz extension for precompiled slackware binary packages, so if you want to make a slackware package from source you have to use makepkg and to open up a slackware package, you use explodepkg

I'll be exploring these this evening

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I almost always run the command tar zxvf file.tar.gz and just use the ./install I find this much better than the pkgtool. Man I miss the slackware.com forum. Maybe I should revive it.
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well at the moment I build everything from source.. with ./configure, make && make install ... but it would be sort of nice to have a play with the pkg management system on offer..

As for the slackware.com forum, I didn't realise that there was one! And slackware.com isn't responding right now for some reason

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As for the slackware.com forum, I didn't realise that there was one! And slackware.com isn't responding right now for some reason

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Well the forum had not been around for a little over a year now. There was a lot of trolls on the forum and not enough time for moderators.
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I have just been pointed towards this article. Anyone reading this thread might also want to follow this link!

http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.p...ticle&artid=467

The Slackware Packages are also accessible from the Slackware.com site, through a simple search interface..

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