Porteus

Hello,
Sorry, I am running a very old porteus....

root@porteus:~/bin# uname -a
Linux porteus 3.13.6-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 7 06:53:36 Local time zone must be set--s x86_64 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


.... and I wanted to update the usb database :

porteus:~/bin# usm -u all
Starting alien database update
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 184
Could not decompress: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz

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

Now that is the error I get.
Is there any way to install packages even when not all databases are updated?

Please tell me what to do to get more packages installed.

You could try commenting out the problem database in /etc/usm/usm.conf. Or you could try updating to a newer version of Porteus.

hi att, for first aid you can search packages with this link: https://slackware.nl/slakfinder/ .
and why you don't extract the script slapt-mod from a new porteus located to /usr/local/bin and try if work on your old system,you need slapt-get package tweak the configure with your repositories and update as usm -u

I don't know beny, does the old USM system include get-mod and the /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/ files that I think slapt-mod uses? Not saying slapt-mod can't work in 3.13 just that it will require more than just the slapt-mod file from 5.01.

well he can try if work get-mod,i think that don't depend from glibc or the gcc,but only the network software

Commenting out the single problematic database seems to be a good choice, I'll try and let you know!