I have recently installed the Slack 13.1 x86_64 on my laptop. It works fine! But I have one trouble with it. I cannot run the installpkg and pkgtool with my normal user. It says to me that there is no command found. Is it a problem with the sudoers file or these commands are not really installed? Maybe my path is incomplete?
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(using 13.37)
First time I've done this in awhile Upgrading my Slackware64 -current VM, following the standard routine that has always worked in the past -
Code:
slackpkg clean-system
slackpkg install-new
The clean-system removed 2 packages -
util-linux-ng
eggdbus
Installpkg will no longer work, complaining that the rev command is not found. The problem hit with the removal of util-linux-ng. I cp'd util-linux to ~/. Extracted with tar and executed the doinstall. Fixed.
How can I auto login as a normal user in slackware 13.1. I need to auto login in X.
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View 14 Replies View RelatedI installed a slackware package using pkgtool.
At the end of the install process I get the following warning: WARNING: Package has not been created with 'makepkg'
It appears that the package was installed if I look at the file system. I see new files/directories from the package. But, when I try to launch the new application from /usr/bin I get this error: No such file or directory
I am a normal user "su -" to root when I did the pkgtool install and when I tried to run the application from /usr/bin.
I can see the binary in /usr/bin with a directory listing with the following permissions. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
I see the application as installed in the pkgtool and can un-install it.
why I can not launch the binary in /usr/bin?
A slacky.eu user Spina, I did notice a bug in calculating the size of the package when the directory contains a space in the name. Example:
Code:
/tmp/prova dir# LANG=en installpkg abook-0.6.0pre2-i686-4cf.txz
/bin/du: cannot access `/tmp/prova': No such file or directory
/bin/du: cannot access `dir/abook-0.6.0pre2-i686-4cf.txz': No such file or directory
Verifying package abook-0.6.0pre2-i686-4cf.txz.
Installing package abook-0.6.0pre2-i686-4cf.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# abook
# Abook is a text-based addressbook program designed to use with mutt
# mail client. Abook runs on Linux, FreeBSD and some other UNIXes.
# Home: [URL]
# Package abook-0.6.0pre2-i686-4cf.txz installed.
This error is caused by 'readlink -f'
COMPRESSED="$(/bin/du -sh $(readlink -f $package) | cut -f 1)"
instead with
Code:
COMPRESSED="$(/bin/du -sh "$(readlink -f $package)" | cut -f 1)"
it's ok
I have used a couple of slackbuild binary packages (i.e. without doing the actually build) and have worked fine. Thanks to those who have spent the time and effort to create them.
When installing the package I wanted to know what binary files were being put on my machine and at which directory location. This was more out of curiosity.
However, now I plan to get the boost slackbuild package. It's more relevant to know where it's being installed. Is there a way to know that? Also, can I specify a different directory?
i have some package that are installed using ./configure then make & make install & make clean how can i remove those? i cant see them in the pkgtool.
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# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
[code]...
Intending to remove jre-6u16-i586-1 and install jre-6u18-i586-1 on Slackware 13.0 32-bit, I used
Code:
slackpkg remove jre-6u16-i586-1
installpkg jre-6u18-i586-1.txz
This seems to have been the wrong way to do it because, now trying to remove jre-6u18-i586-1
Code:
removepkg jre-6u18-i586-1.txz
ls: cannot access /var/log/packages/jre-6u18-i586-1*: No such file or directory No such package: /var/log/packages/jre-6u18-i586-1.Can't remove.
ls -l /var/log/packages/jre* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35K 2010-03-09 20:28 /var/log/packages/jre-6u16-i586-1
What was wrong with what I did and how can I clean up?
Is there any way to use 'fdisk -l' as a normal user? I see in F12, /sbin has been added to PATH by default for a normal user, but when trying to use it, nothing shows up.
See below for demonstration purposes:
Code:
Password:
I don't want to use 'su -' or 'su -c' and login every time.
Recently I noticed, that manpages are not available anymore for a normal user:
Code:
$ man grep
No manual entry for grep
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.With root privileges everything works fine
As I get reply from antoher forum is best there on Ubuntu is better to have 2 user accounts - one is admin and other is normal user for surfing, and other things. But there is problem. How can I install applications on this normal user account?
And,.. is option for installed applications (on normal user acc.) is no visible or installed on admin account?
- Can I .reg file for program which is running on Wine, use for a program that I need to change settings in "registry"?
Quote:
Originally Posted by G�del
It gets me within a mile
how i am auto mount the ntfs drives through the normal user with out asking password... I need it and also one thing is i want two drives only auto mount and when i open the other drives it should ask the password?...
I can switch to root by typing "su"After having done something, I hope to switch back to original normal user. What's the command,
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When I mount a partition i get no errors, but the directory is empty. I umounted first.
Here is my fstab:
Code: #
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Jan 30 18:30:30 2010
#
[Code]....
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I have installed Oracle Database server in Red Hat Linux for the first time. I edited the .bash_profile first time & defined some parameters like "export ORACLE_SID =orcl".I quit the editing. Then When I entered ". .bash_profile" it got error " not a valid identifier" it shows like "bash: export: '=orcl' : not a valid identifier for all the lines I edited it shows same error beacause I think I put a space in between "ORACLE_SID" & "=orcl".
So when I tried to edit that using "vi .bash_profile" being a normal user. It doesn't allow me editing.when I try to delete that space (because I think I have got error) using Backspace key on my computer,,it just moves the cursor to left in stead of deleting that space.
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Code:
Cannot exec /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server: File or directory doesn't exist
(Translateted from my nativ language)
I think that is my bad shell configuration so I check file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and see in the end (this lines couse this bug):
Code:
Match User root
ChrootDirectory /home
AllowTCPForwarding no
X11Forwarding no
[Code].....
I am facing problem while installing wine software, as normal user following error message i have got.
Note:- able to extract tar.bz2 package as root but not able to extract package as normal user (installed as root but while complile it gives message that run this package as normal user)
but after loggin as normal user not able to use following command
#tar -jxvf wine-1.2.tar.bz2
it shows following error:
tar: wine-1.2/tools/wrc/writeres.c: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors