USM Unified Slackware Package Manager

[francois]

Under 32 bit, I was not able to start usm. I have tried to donwload usm from github:
https://github.com/brokenman/usm

usm will not boot. Trying from cli mode:

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root@porteus:~# usm
ps: error while loading shared libraries: libprocps.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/usm/usm.conf' for reading (No such file or directory)
/usr/bin/usm: line 61: /etc/usm/usm.conf: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 62: /share/usm/funcelementCreate: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 63: /share/usm/funccleanup: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 64: /share/usm/funcsystemSetup: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 65: /share/usm/funccli: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 66: /share/usm/funcgtkDialogs: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 67: /share/usm/functxtStatic: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 68: /share/usm/funcpackageSearch: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 69: /share/usm/funcpackageInfo: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 70: /share/usm/funcchecks: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 71: /share/usm/funcpackageGet: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 72: /share/usm/funcupdateDatabase: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 73: /share/usm/funcchangelogs: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 74: /share/usm/funcslackbuilds: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 75: /share/usm/funcsystemDeps: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/usm: line 144: pink: command not found
/usr/bin/usm: line 145: help_check: command not found
/usr/bin/usm: line 157: system_setup: command not found

Invalid command
/usr/bin/usm: line 328: cleanup: command not found
/usr/bin/usm: line 647: cleanup: command not found
root@porteus:~#

thanks

[brokenman]

Francois the github holds the realtime source files. Here is how it should be used:

As root

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git clone https://github.com/brokenman/usm.git
cd usm
make install

Then you can use USM as you normally would. I recommend using the slackware package from sourceforge as it contains the required files to use the 'update' function.

[francois]

It seems something is escaping to my unrefined spirit:

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root@porteus:~# git clone https://github.com/brokenman/usm.git
bash: git: command not found
root@porteus:~#

There must be a git package somewhere?

[bour59]

@francois
may be "usm -s git" can help

[francois]

@francois
may be "usm -s git" can help

My problem is that usm does not function at all.

I realized that maybe I had not the git package on my system. With git installed as a module. I could git.

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git clone https://github.com/brokenman/usm.git
Cloning into 'usm'...
remote: Counting objects: 602, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
remote: Total 602 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (602/602), 204.80 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (351/351), done.
Checking connectivity... done

However, with a little thinking I thought about getting it from pkgs.org, here is git for 64bit:
http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackw ... 6_64-1.txz

Just in case some other fellow needs it.

[francois]

@brokenman:

Thanks brokenman. usm gui is updated now on my system.

With this tip on git, once again you have extended my comprehension of the linux universe. With you we always feel that we get smarter. 8)

I hope that you get rid rapidly of this dengue.

[francois]

Here just proposing a small implement to accelerate the manipulations for modules created by usm. Once the modules are ready there is a message:
modules are in /tmp/usm/, would you offer the option of opening /tmp/usm/ folder?

Thanks.

[bour59]

hello
just another proposal : include slackware-current
thanks

[Slaxmax]

what is this?

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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -d /var/log/packages/wine-1.7.4-i486-1sl

 Processing  wine-1.7.4-i486-1sl

####################################
cat: /tmp/usm.V0nBng/singlefile.dep: No such file or directory

####################################

Missing dependencies: 0

[brokenman]

Thanks slaxmax, I have corrected this bug when all deps are resolved and the report file does not exist.

Francois I have added the option to open the storage folder (when in GUI mode) after downloading packages.

Freestyler I will add merge of module to the module tools. This is easier since I can't tell which modules should be merged in the case that someone uses a single download folder for all packages and doesn't delete old stuff. The module tool will allow one to choose which modules they want to merge into one.

Bour I will certainly add slackware-current to USM but i wanted to test it on 14.1 first. Adding slackware-current will increase the slackware user base "10 fold" and I want it to be stable before then.

All the above changes have been added to the github only. Once i add the 'module merge' i will push another version to sourceforge as an official release. To get the updates go into the folder where you first cloned the git repository (above thread) and issue: git pull which will pull all the latest updates. Then make install to install the new files from the source code. If you are asked about overwriting a man file just say yes. This is a slackware file no harm done overwriting in in Porteus.

Thanks very much for road testing this guys. You are all great.

[freestyler]

love your work brokenman

[fanthom]

certainly add slackware-current to USM but i wanted to test it on 14.1
sooner or later you'll get breakage (depends how far Pat goes with libs bumping) . bad idea to include -current.

[bour59]

Hi!
I thought
/slackware gave tested packages (base)
/currentpatches gave packages to be tested (more accurate)
/current gave packages tested to suit the version of slackware after tested in patches
pls add a warning in packages (patches and current) but add
thanks

[fanthom]

slackware patches is ok as is compiled on stable release.
-current is a 'pre' new release so things must break at some stage.

[bour59]

ok
I made my proposal based on bind package
which was 9.9.3 in slackware base
then 9.9.4 in testing (runs also)
and is now in current at 9.9.4 (runs always)
sure I can't create a general rule from this tests!
thanks to let me very prudent (as always)
but, let propose current with WARNINGS