PORTEUS 5 USM ERROR

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PORTEUS 5 USM ERROR

Post#1 by aitherkilin » 22 Apr 2020, 02:49

wll i try to use usm and get this error:
usm -u all
Starting alien database update
Downloading: vercheck.txt DONE
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2 DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz DONE

gzip: /var/usm/alien/CHECKSUMS.md5.gz: unexpected end of file


==============================================================================
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
==============================================================================
One or more errors occurred while usm was running:

FATAL ERROR!
usm update_database 270
Could not decompress: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz

==============================================================================


for no reason usm try to update alien repo and i deactive that in /etc/usm.conf:

DISTROS="slacky sbo"

this is my usm info:
usm -i
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
usm application information

USM version: 3.2.0
DB version: 161003
Current storage: /home/guest/usm/
Current config: /etc/usm/usm.conf
Current platform: Porteus-v5.0
Current arch: x86_64
Slackware Slackware 14.1+
Current kernel 5.1.5-porteus
Current distros: slacky sbo
quiet changes=/porteus initrd=/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz

Use: usm -i <package>
For example: usm -i imagemagick

Please help!

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PORTEUS 5 USM ERROR

Post#2 by Ed_P » 22 Apr 2020, 03:54

USM doesn't work in the 5.0 test system.
Ed

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PORTEUS 5 USM ERROR

Post#3 by aitherkilin » 22 Apr 2020, 14:56

Ed_P wrote:
22 Apr 2020, 03:54
Ed_P wrote:
22 Apr 2020, 03:53
USM doesn't work in the 5.0 test system.
So what i can do?use a previous versión? Porteus 4?

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PORTEUS 5 USM ERROR

Post#4 by Ed_P » 22 Apr 2020, 16:38

USM does work in Porteus 4. As for the 5.0 test system Rava's posting in this thread may help. USM Error
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