USM Unified Slackware Package Manager

Post#361 by **francois** » 16 Feb 2018, 19:05

Sorry to revive that old thread. What would be the more recent one on usm and errors or bugs?

Post#362 by **Ed_P** » 16 Feb 2018, 19:17

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=7000

1. sesm.sh

Script to Set the fastest Slackware Mirrors

2. safm.sh

Script to Set Alternative Fastest Mirror

Post#363 by **francois** » 16 Feb 2018, 19:41

Maybe we should start one explaining a few common solution to usm errors:
1) the salix database error (is it fixed for porteus 4.0?)
2) One or more errors occurred while usm was running:

FATAL ERROR!
resolve_deps 369
Please wait 6 hours for the next database update. Could not find: LIBS.TXT

And other common errors encountered. Would we have enough material for that?

Post#364 by **Ed_P** » 16 Feb 2018, 21:33

Most of the USM distributions have multiple mirrors. Just because one mirror is bad doesn't mean they all are. Have you tried other mirrors?

Post#365 by **francois** » 16 Feb 2018, 23:42

Are you talking about 1) the salix problem or 2) the One or more errors occurred while usm was running?

Personnaly, I have fixed 1) the salix database error by choosing another server and saved it in/porteus/rootcopy/etc/usm/mirrors-salix.txt. The rootcopy contains many of my fixes that will survive the porteus release candidate changes and even could be used for nemesis (autostart applications for example).

However, I was wondering if usm would run with minima snags. Or at least that we would have some kind of common problems and solution for usm.

Post#366 by **francois** » 17 Feb 2018, 01:33

2) One or more errors occurred while usm was running:

FATAL ERROR!
resolve_deps 369

I am trying to build qt4.8.7 for smplayer.

Would be solved by changing mirrors

Post#367 by **francois** » 17 Feb 2018, 01:43

Real funny, qt-4.8 from usm tried to pull so much dependencies. When I download it from pkgs.org and txz2xzm, it turns to be the only dependency needed for smplayer.

Post#368 by **Ed_P** » 17 Feb 2018, 02:22

francois wrote: ↑
16 Feb 2018, 23:42
Are you talking about 1) the salix problem or 2) the One or more errors occurred while usm was running?

1) and hopefully it's fix fixes 2)

Personnaly, I have fixed 1) the salix database error by choosing another server and saved it in/porteus/rootcopy/etc/usm/mirrors-salix.txt.

Yup, doing it manually or using one of bogomips's script will accomplish that.

My USM changes, /etc/usm/* & /var/usm/ will survive also as I have them saved in a module I make of my changes.

However, I was wondering if usm would run with minima snags. Or at least that we would have some kind of common problems and solution for usm.

There was a script that bogomips had that did fix a lot of the USM errors, unfortunately I don't recall it's name or location at this point.

Post#369 by **jssouza** » 18 Feb 2018, 15:54

francois wrote: ↑
17 Feb 2018, 01:43
Real funny, qt-4.8 from usm tried to pull so much dependencies. When I download it from pkgs.org and txz2xzm, it turns to be the only dependency needed for smplayer.

francois, smplayer can be built with qt5 as well. Were you using kde5?

Post#370 by **francois** » 18 Feb 2018, 23:21

Good to know. No I was on xfce4. This means that smplayer alone could run on kde5.
Thanks.