USM not found from root terminal

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USM not found from root terminal

Post#1 by philnk » 13 Jul 2021, 00:29

In root, I type USM and get message USM not found after a fresh install. Where is it?

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Post#2 by Ed_P » 13 Jul 2021, 02:34

It's not in the 5.0 release candidate.
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Post#3 by sbdaule » 29 Jul 2021, 12:56

How can I install app in Porteus 5.0. Which package manager is used in place of USM? :Search:

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Post#4 by cornfuzed » 17 Aug 2021, 19:39

How are 5.x rcx users adding packages? My save file and xzm scripts are failing with folder not writeable even though they're running as su and the folders are writeable for root... my understanding is the new slax supports apt and uses deb repository. Is this being implemented in Porteus 5? Any working package management available? Any release projection for 5.0? Eager to get 5 kde 86-64 fully operational...

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Post#5 by burdi01 » 18 Aug 2021, 09:32

The INFO and FAQ pages on http://porteus.org/ may be outdated, but still would answer much of your questions.
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Post#6 by cornfuzed » 23 Aug 2021, 21:58

USM is not included, nor is apt. context scripts spit errors. Even if I compile, how do I make it a module? Is there an easy fix to make the scripts work? They're running as root, the folders are writeable...

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Post#7 by fulalas » 30 Aug 2021, 06:48

cornfuzed wrote:
17 Aug 2021, 19:39
How are 5.x rcx users adding packages?
At the moment you can download Slackware packages (https://pkgs.org/ is a good start) and convert them to xzm (just need to right click).
cornfuzed wrote:
17 Aug 2021, 19:39
my understanding is the new slax supports apt and uses deb repository. Is this being implemented in Porteus 5?
New Slax is based on Debian, which has apt-get. Porteus is based on Slackware, so no apt-get.
cornfuzed wrote:
17 Aug 2021, 19:39
Any release projection for 5.0?
The idea is to release it together with (or just after) Slackware 15 final release.
cornfuzed wrote:
17 Aug 2021, 19:39
Eager to get 5 kde 86-64 fully operational...
What you mean exactly?

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Post#8 by cornfuzed » 19 Sep 2021, 21:17

"convert them to xzm (just need to right click)."

That has not been my experience. The right click (context menu) commands don't work. I get "not writable" errors regardless of folder permissions or guest / root user.

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Post#9 by cornfuzed » 19 Sep 2021, 21:21

I installed again on a VM, same issue.

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Post#10 by Ed_P » 20 Sep 2021, 02:32

For .txz files convert them to .xzm format with the txz2xzm command.
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Post#11 by fulalas » 20 Sep 2021, 10:37

Yeah, in KDE there's this issue when trying to convert to xzm -- I forgot about it, sorry. You can try in the terminal as sudo:

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sudo txz2xzm input.txz

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