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[Solved] what should slackware-version say?
Posted: 09 Apr 2021, 22:52
by Bob1414
I wanted to add the System Monitor package, but was having trouble updating USM. E.g.
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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u all
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gzip: /var/usm/slacky/CHECKSUMS.md5.gz: unexpected end of file
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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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One or more errors occurred while usm was running:
FATAL ERROR!
usm update_database 248
Could not decompress: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz
So I found this thread and ran those commands posted by a dev:
viewtopic.php?p=47099#p47099
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sed -i 's/14.2/14.1/' /etc/slackware-version
sed -i 's/||.*]//' /usr/share/usm/funcsystemSetup
But later in that thread, brokenman said:
If you ran the commands from Blaze you will need to revert them manually.
That was 2016. I don't know if my files were changed by the search-replace commands or what they should rightly contain for my Cinnamon 4 with kernel 5.12.
My slackware-version now says: Slackware 14.1+
My /usr/share/usm/funcsystemSetup has got 175 lines to post.
What should I do? Is what I now have incorrect? Thanks.
what should slackware-version say?
Posted: 09 Apr 2021, 23:02
by Bob1414
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root@porteus:/home/guest# cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 14.1+
root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -i
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
usm application information
USM version: 3.2.0
DB version: 181118
Current storage: /tmp/usm
Current config: /etc/usm/usm.conf
Current platform: Porteus-v4.0
Current arch: x86_64
Current Slackware 14.1+
Current kernel 5.12.0-rc3-porteus
Current distros: slackware slackwarepatches slacky salix alien ponce slackonly
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz changes=/mnt/sdb1/porteus/changes/porteussave.dat vga=ask initrd=/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
what should slackware-version say?
Posted: 10 Apr 2021, 02:35
by ncmprhnsbl
the correct /etc/slackware-version for porteus 4 should be
Slackware 14.2+
as for the error with slacky repo/checksums: see here :
usm error (Post by donald #81953)
basicly: "remove slacky from the DISTROS line:
DISTROS="slackware slackwarepatches salix alien ponce slackonly"
in /etc/usm/usm.conf"
and if by "system-monitor", you mean "gnome-system-monitor", then you won't find it in any slackware repos, since, i guess, it depends on systemd, which we don't have..
are you looking for some function it provides that lxtask doesn't?
what should slackware-version say?
Posted: 10 Apr 2021, 12:35
by Bob1414
ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑10 Apr 2021, 02:35
are you looking for some function it provides that lxtask doesn't?
Thanks again for the efficient help, ncmprhnsbl. Additions I'd like the standard Task Manager to have are:
1) ability to
see wifi traffic and disk transfer rate and amount (e.g. if a download is slow, is it because server has stalled or maybe disk or cpu is the bottleneck)
2) it would also be nice to see a
graph of past cpu, wifi, etc
IOW, more like Windows Task Manager which I've use a lot, especially when there are problems.
