You can read the most recent thread about slakfinder.org down again? here:19th Sep 2022, 01:40
Patience is a virtue they say, and that's true for sure.
More peace to the war torn parts of earth from me. (some western folks seem to forget that Ukraine is not the only area torn by war, it may be the only one currently where eastern orthodox Christians kill each other, but that's hardly a consolidation for other regions.)itrukrakso wrote: ↑01 Jan 2023, 18:38In this way I wish all people in this world a peaceful, healthy and happy 2023.
Added in 18 minutes 40 seconds:wirelessmc (on linuxquestions.org) wrote: Seems it is still down but Eric's US mirror seems to be working.
http://taper.alienbase.nl/slackpkgplus/
You are correct on that.itrukrakso wrote: ↑06 Jan 2023, 15:54I don't use package managers, so I don't use getmod to keep my system up to date.
They are all too inaccurate and do not meet my expectations.
In 10 years of Porteus I have learned to build my modules myself, with all dependencies, building on the existing modules.
This sometimes takes a bit longer, but that's how I get my optimal Porteus.
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ldd /path/to/binary|grep "not found"I know, it was a neat site. Hopefully it comes back some time.For this reason slakfinder.org is the first address for me, searching for packages over all versions of Slackware
and all built packages I find there.
Whatwll you do in the meantime?Pkgs.org is similar, but unfortunately does not offer the selection like slakfinder.org.
Also, the constant captcha queries on this site have been bugging me for some time.
I use pkgs.org mostly for programs that are not available on Slackware. With some effort and perseverance you can get them to run under Porteus.Rava wrote:Whatwll you do in the meantime?
Use pkgs.org instead of slakfinder.org?
ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑10 Jan 2023, 01:06more info: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/mirror ... lakfinder/
Replace where? slapt-getrc?https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/mirror-for-slackpkg-and-slakfinder/ wrote:Replace the MIRRORPLUS URL above with the following line and run a “slackpkg update“, which will solve the timeout issue:
MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=https://slackware.nl/slackpkgplus15/
Read the link provided, it is explained in there:
And at the end he added this:The “/etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf” configuration file contains these lines:
[…]
… and that causes a problem every time you run “slackpkg update“. There will be a timeout querying slakfinder.org and a subsequent error. After that, slackpkg will function as usual, you just won’t be able to check on updates for slackpkg+. But the error is annoying.
Luckily I am mirroring the repository for a long while now, so this is easy to fix. Replace the MIRRORPLUS URL above with the following line and run a “slackpkg update“, which will solve the timeout issue:
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MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=https://slackware.nl/slackpkgplus15/
Today I am opening a custom instance of slakfinder on slackware.nl which will hopefully prevent new downtime. Get a look at it here: https://slackware.nl/slakfinder/ .
And Porteus 5 contains a "etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf" file and it contains the 2 quoted lines at lines 140 & 141 of the file. Good to know.https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/mirror-for-slackpkg-and-slakfinder/ wrote: The “/etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf” configuration file contains these lines:
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?# use this to keep the slackpkg+ package updated to the latest stable release MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=https://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+15/
Thank you beny.
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#MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=https://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+15/
MIRRORPLUS['slackpkgplus']=https://slackware.nl/slackpkgplus15/
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#!/bin/sh
# https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/mirror-for-slackpkg-and-slakfinder/ -AlienBob
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=92492#p92492 - Rava
if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then
echo -e "Enter root's password\033[1;31m"
su -c "sh $0 $1 $2"; exit
fi
echo -e "\033[0m"; echo -en "\033]0;Update slackpkg's repositories\a"
#set -x;
cp slackpkgplus.conf /etc/slackpkg/
ls -oh /etc/slackpkg/s*
slackpkg update
sleep 5
