I'm going to look for it. I don't know why it was delete.francois wrote:Yes there was I am almost sure in 2.x.
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ROOT=/path/to/folder installpkg -terse *.txzAnd it should not be that hard to get back, at least I root for it...francois wrote:Yes there was I am almost sure in 2.x.
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#!/bin/bash
# Script to decompress multiple slakware packages to a dir
# Author: brokenman@portues.org
# August 25th 2016
. /usr/share/porteus/porteus-functions
get_colors
echo
CWD=`pwd`
usage(){
echo
echo "Usage:"
bold "$0 /path/to/slackware-package.txz /path/to/dir"
bold "$0 /path/to/folder/of/packages /path/to/dir"
echo
exit
}
ARGNUM=$#
# Check input
[ -z $1 ] && usage
[ $# -lt 2 ] && { red "A target dir must be supplied"; usage; }
case $1 in
-h|--help)
usage ;;
esac
ARGS=${@:1:$(($#-1))}
LASTARG=${@: -1}
[ -e $1 ] && SRC=FILE
[ -d $1 ] && SRC=DIR
[ -z $SRC ] && { red "$1 does not appear to exist."; usage; }
[ ! -d $LASTARG ] && { red "$LASTARG is not a valid directory."; usage; }
[ ! -w $LASTARG ] && { red "$LASTARG is not writable."; usage; }
# Make variable with source files
if [ "$SRC" = DIR ]; then
FILES=`find $1 -type f | egrep "*.tgz|*.txz"`
[[ -z $FILES ]] && { red "$1 does not contain any slackware packages."; usage; }
else
FILES=${@:1:$(($#-1))}
fi
# Go through packages and extract them
for a in $FILES; do
file $a | egrep -qo "gzip compressed data|XZ compressed data" || { bold "${a##*/} is not a slackware package. Skipping."; continue; }
installpkg --terse --root $LASTARG $a
done
(already mentioned by others 
)I know those were there but txz2dir was not. Or I must not be seeing it.francois wrote:@jack, see sitwon script:
convert Slackware's TGZ (or TXZ) package into .xzm compressed file
https://github.com/Sitwon/Porteus/blob/ ... ts/txz2xzm
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#!/bin/bash # convert Slackware's TGZ (or TXZ) package into .xzm compressed file # which can be used as a LiveCD module # # Author: Tomas M. <http://www.linux-live.org> # Modifications for Porteus by fanthom # Switch to root if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then mod=`readlink -f $1` mod2=`readlink -f $2` xterm -T "Please enter root's password below" -e su - -c "/opt/porteus-scripts/txz2xzm $mod $mod2" exit fi else if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "Please enter root's password below" mod=`readlink -f $1` mod2=`readlink -f $2` su - -c "/opt/porteus-scripts/txz2xzm $mod $mod2" exit fi fi if [ "$1" = "" -o "$2" = "" ]; then echo echo "Convert Slackware's TXZ package into .xzm compressed module" echo "usage: $0 source_filename.txz output_file.xzm" exit 1 fi PATH=.:$(dirname $0):/usr/lib:$PATH . liblinuxlive || exit 1 TMPDIR=/tmp/txz2xzm$$ installpkg -root $TMPDIR $1 if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "error installing package"; exit; fi # optimalization procedures, this doesn't hurt find $TMPDIR/usr{/local,/}{man,info} -type l -name "*.gz" 2>/dev/null | xargs -r gunzip -f find $TMPDIR/usr{/local,/}{man,info} -type f -name "*.gz" 2>/dev/null | xargs -r gunzip rm -f $TMPDIR/{usr,usr/local,var}/man/cat*/* create_module $TMPDIR "$2" if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "error building compressed image"; exit; fi rm -Rf $TMPDIR
Languishing in Tutorials: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 841#p27635ncmprhnsbl wrote:was just about to draw attention to the 'installpkg --terse --root' command
