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[Solved] isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 01:48
by jmheneman
(Using Porteus LXDE with Chrome)

isohybrid does not seem to be present in the distribution.

After a usm -u all, nothing is found with usm -s isohybrid or usm -k isohybrid

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#usm -k isohybrid
Nothing found for: isohybrid
#usm -s isohybrid
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/var/usm/sbo/SLACKBUILDS.TXT' for reading (No such file or directory)
Nothing found for isohybrid
Is the cannot open file message normal?
(Meanwhile, I am using RipLinux 13.7 to create an isohybrid (with success)).

Thanks for the help!
Jean-Marc

Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 02:21
by fanthom
isohybrid is a part of syslinux package in Slackware.

Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 09:59
by francois
So just follow thru the instructions for kiosk faq:
http://www.porteus.org/faq/kiosk-faq.html

:twisted:

Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 10:52
by jmheneman
1- Thanks!
That will permit me to make an isohybrid for desktop edition (not the kiosk edition) to quickly test it with a USB key with dd.

2- I am still intrigued with the message from usm :

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#usm -s isohybrid
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/var/usm/sbo/SLACKBUILDS.TXT' for reading (No such file or directory)
Nothing found for isohybrid
Q: Is this normal?

3- I just found out that http://packages.slackware.com/ can answer this by selecting content search...
Q: but how I look thru not only slackware, but slacky, ponce, alien, etc.?

Thanks for your patience!
Jean-Marc

Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 13:11
by francois
Problems related to usm have usually more chances to be adressed in the post on usm, see:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=3040
:wink:

Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 14:12
by Slaxmax
you need update sbo repo

usm -u sbo

Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 22:15
by brokenman
As slaxmax says, you need to update SBo to get it to search. This is a bug that will be fixed in next release. USM in fact searches all the slackware repos you mentioned, and as a last resort if nothing is found it searches SBo and offers to build it from source code. Please see fanthom's comment above if you want isohybrid as even after searching ALL the repos for the package isohybrid you will still find nothing.

[Solved] Re: isohybrid : command not found in Porteus 3.0

Posted: 02 Apr 2014, 21:44
by jmheneman
Many thanks!

Jean-Marc