slpkg 1.9.6

Utility for easy management packages in Slackware

Latest Release:

• Version: 1.9.6

• Package

• Source

• CHANGELOG

Table of Contents:

• Features

• Tutorial

• Installation

• Command Line Tool Usage

• Slpkg Examples

Slpkg is a terminal multitool in order to easy use Slackware packages.

Slpkg is Open Source software written in Python language. It’s use is for managing packages in Slackware linux distribution. Species are adapted to two repositories:

• SBo - slackbuilds.org

• Slack - slackware.com

Slpkg works in accordance with the standards of the organization slackbuilds.org to builds packages. Also uses the Slackware linux instructions for installation, upgrading or removing packages.

What makes slpkg to distinguish it from other tools; The user friendliness is its primary target as well as easy to understand and use, also use color to highlight packages and display warning messages, etc.

The big advantages is resolving dependencies packages from repository slackbuilds.org and monitored for upgraded packages.

Of course you wonder how the slpkg is up to date at all times; It’s simple, every time there is a change in ChangeLog.txt before proceeding to any execution program looksat whether there is a change in file size and downloads and updates the SLACKBUILDS.TXT file.

Also you can install official packages of your favorite distribution directly from the official repositories of Slackware. Even you can check for the official updates and install them.

And as we say Slackers, Keep it Simple Stupid!

Features

• Build third party packages from source with all dependencies

• Install packages through from official Slackware mirrors

• Find and Download packages from slackbuilds.org

• Grabs packages from slackbuilds.org in real time

• Automatic tool build and install packages

• Check if your distribution is up to date

• Remove packages with all dependencies

• Display the contents of the packages

• Install-upgrade Slackware packages

• Build and install all in a command

• Checking for updated packages

• List all installed packages

• Support MD5SUM file check

• Find installed package

• Read SlackBuilds files

• Τracking dependencies

• Build log file

• Sum build time

It’s a quick and easy way to manage your packages in Slackware to a command.

Tutorial

Installation

Untar the archive and run install.sh script:

$ tar xvf slpkg-1.9.6.tar.gz
$ cd slpkg-1.9.6
$ ./install.sh

Using pip :

$ pip install --upgrade slpkg

uninstall:

$ pip uninstall slpkg

Using Slackware command:

Download binary package from SourceForge

Command Line Tool Usage

Utility for easy management packages in Slackware

Optional arguments:
  -h, --help                                show this help message and exit
  -v, --version                             print version and exit
  -a, script [source...]                    auto build packages
  -b, --list, [package...] --add, --remove  add, remove packages in blacklist
  -l, all, sbo, slack, noarch               list of installed packages
  -c, <repository> --upgrade --current      check for updated packages
  -s, <repository> <package> --current      download, build & install
  -f, <package>                             find installed packages
  -t, <package>                             tracking dependencies from SBo
  -n, <package>                             view packages from SBo
  -i, [package...]                          install binary packages
  -u, [package...]                          upgrade binary packages
  -o, [package...]                          reinstall binary packages
  -r, [package...]                          remove binary packages
  -d, [package...]                          display the contents
Repositories:
      SlackBuilds = sbo
      Slackware = slack '--current'

Slpkg Examples

Find packages from slackbuilds.org download, build and install with all dependencies :

$ slpkg -s sbo brasero
Reading package lists ......Done

The following packages will be automatically installed or upgraded
with new version:

+==============================================================================
| Package                                 Version         Arch       Repository
+==============================================================================
Installing:
  brasero                                 3.11.3          x86_64     SBo
Installing for dependencies:
  orc                                     0.4.19          x86_64     SBo
  gstreamer1                              1.2.2           x86_64     SBo
  gst1-plugins-base                       1.2.2           x86_64     SBo
  gst1-plugins-bad                        1.2.2           x86_64     SBo
  libunique                               1.1.6           x86_64     SBo

Installing summary
===============================================================================
Total 6 packages.
6 packages will be installed, 0 allready installed and 0 package
will be upgraded.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y


$ slpkg -s sbo fmpeg
Reading package lists ....Done

Packages with name matching [ fmpeg ]

+==============================================================================
| Package                              Version          Arch         Repository
+==============================================================================
Matching:
 ffmpegthumbnailer                     2.0.8            x86_64       SBo
 ffmpeg                                2.1.5            x86_64       SBo
 ffmpeg2theora                         0.29             x86_64       SBo
 gst-ffmpeg                            0.10.13          x86_64       SBo

Installing summary
===============================================================================
Total found 4 matching packages.
0 installed package and 4 uninstalled packages.

Find packages from Slackware official mirrors download and install (use ‘–current’ to switch in current repository):

$ slpkg -s slack mozilla (add '--current' to switch in current version)

Packages with name matching [ mozilla ]
Reading package lists ..............................Done

+==============================================================================
| Package                   Version          Arch     Build  Repos         Size
+==============================================================================
Installing:
  mozilla-firefox           24.1.0esr        x86_64   1      Slack     23524  K
  mozilla-nss               3.15.2           x86_64   2      Slack      1592  K
  mozilla-thunderbird       24.1.0           x86_64   1      Slack     24208  K

Installing summary
===============================================================================
Total 3 packages.
0 package will be installed, 3 will be upgraded and 0 will be resettled.
Need to get 48.17 Mb of archives.
After this process, 125.75 Mb of additional disk space will be used.

Would you like to install [Y/n]?

Tracking all dependencies of packages, and also displays installed packages:

$ slpkg -t brasero
Reading package lists ......Done

+=========================
| brasero dependencies   :
+=========================
\
 +---[ Tree of dependencies ]
 |
 +--1 orc
 |
 +--2 gstreamer1
 |
 +--3 gst1-plugins-base
 |
 +--4 gst1-plugins-bad
 |
 +--5 libunique

Check if your packages is up to date from slackbuilds.org:

$ slpkg -c sbo --upgrade
Reading package lists ...Done

These packages need upgrading:

+==============================================================================
| Package                             New version       Arch         Repository
+==============================================================================
Upgrading:
  six-1.7.1                           1.7.3             x86_64       SBo
  pysetuptools-3.4                    3.6               x86_64       SBo
  Jinja2-2.7.0                        2.7.2             x86_64       SBo
  pysed-0.3.0                         0.3.1             x86_64       SBo
  Pafy-0.3.56                         0.3.58            x86_64       SBo
  MarkupSafe-0.21                     0.23              x86_64       SBo
  pip-1.5.3                           1.5.6             x86_64       SBo
  colored-1.1.1                       1.1.4             x86_64       SBo

Installing summary
===============================================================================
Total 8 packages will be upgraded and 0 package will be installed.

Would you like to upgrade [Y/n]?

Check if your distribution is up to date from Slackware official mirrors (use ‘–current’ to switch in current repository):

$ slpkg -c slack --upgrade (add '--current' to switch in current version)
Reading package lists .......Done

These packages need upgrading:

+==============================================================================
| Package                   Version          Arch     Build  Repos         Size
+==============================================================================
Upgrading:
  dhcpcd                    6.0.5            x86_64   3      Slack         92 K
  samba                     4.1.11           x86_64   1      Slack       9928 K
  xscreensaver              5.29             x86_64   1      Slack       3896 K

Installing summary
===============================================================================
Total 3 package will be upgrading.
Need to get 13.58 Mb of archives.
After this process, 76.10 Mb of additional disk space will be used.

Would you like to upgrade [Y/n]?

Find packages from slackbuilds.org:

$ slpkg -n bitfighter
Reading package lists ...Done

+===============================================================================
| Package bitfighter --> http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/games/bitfighter/
+===============================================================================
| Description : multi-player combat game
| SlackBuild : bitfighter.tar.gz
| Sources : bitfighter-019c.tar.gz, classic_level_pack.zip
| Requirements : OpenAL, SDL2, speex, libmodplug
+===============================================================================
 README               View the README file
 SlackBuild           View the SlackBuild file
 Info                 View the Info file
 Download             Download this package
 Build                Download and build this package
 Install              Download/Build/Install
 Quit                 Quit

 Choose an option: _

Auto tool to build package:

Two files termcolor.tar.gz and termcolor-1.1.0.tar.gz
must be in the same directory.
(slackbuild script & source code or extra sources if needed)

$ slpkg -a termcolor.tar.gz termcolor-1.1.0.tar.gz

termcolor/
termcolor/slack-desc
termcolor/termcolor.info
termcolor/README
termcolor/termcolor.SlackBuild
termcolor-1.1.0/
termcolor-1.1.0/CHANGES.rst
termcolor-1.1.0/COPYING.txt
termcolor-1.1.0/README.rst
termcolor-1.1.0/setup.py
termcolor-1.1.0/termcolor.py
termcolor-1.1.0/PKG-INFO
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
copying termcolor.py -> build/lib
running install_lib
creating /tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr
creating /tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr/lib64
creating /tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr/lib64/python2.7
creating /tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
copying build/lib/termcolor.py ->
/tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
byte-compiling /tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.py
to termcolor.pyc
running install_egg_info
Writing
/tmp/SBo/package-termcolor/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor-1.1.0-py2.7.egg-info

Slackware package maker, version 3.14159.

Searching for symbolic links:

No symbolic links were found, so we won't make an installation script.
You can make your own later in ./install/doinst.sh and rebuild the
package if you like.

This next step is optional - you can set the directories in your package
to some sane permissions. If any of the directories in your package have
special permissions, then DO NOT reset them here!

Would you like to reset all directory permissions to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and
directory ownerships to root.root ([y]es, [n]o)? n

Creating Slackware package:  /tmp/termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

./
usr/
usr/lib64/
usr/lib64/python2.7/
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.py
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.pyc
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor-1.1.0-py2.7.egg-info
usr/doc/
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/termcolor.SlackBuild
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/README.rst
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/CHANGES.rst
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/PKG-INFO
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/COPYING.txt
install/
install/slack-desc

Slackware package /tmp/termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz created.

Total build time for package termcolor : 1 Sec

Upgrade, install package:

$ slpkg -u /tmp/termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

+==============================================================================
| Installing new package ./termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
+==============================================================================

Verifying package termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz.
Installing package termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# termcolor (ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal)
#
# termcolor allows you to format your output in terminal.
#
# Project URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor
#
Package termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz installed.

Install mass-packages:

$ slpkg -u *.t?z

or

$ slpkg -i *.t?z

Find installed packages:

$ slpkg -f apr

Installed packages with name begin matching [ apr ]

[ installed ] - apr-1.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1
[ installed ] - apr-util-1.5.3-x86_64-1_slack14.1
[ installed ] - xf86dgaproto-2.1-noarch-1
[ installed ] - xineramaproto-1.2.1-noarch-1

Total found 4 matcing packages
Size of installed packages 1.61 Mb

Display the contents of the packages:

$ slpkg -d termcolor lua

PACKAGE NAME:     termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     8.0K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     60K
PACKAGE LOCATION: ./termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
termcolor: termcolor (ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal)
termcolor:
termcolor: termcolor allows you to format your output in terminal.
termcolor:
termcolor:
termcolor: Project URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor
termcolor:
termcolor:
termcolor:
termcolor:
FILE LIST:
./
usr/
usr/lib64/
usr/lib64/python2.7/
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.py
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.pyc
usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor-1.1.0-py2.7.egg-info
usr/lib64/python3.3/
usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/
usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/termcolor-1.1.0-py3.3.egg-info
usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/__pycache__/
usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/__pycache__/termcolor.cpython-33.pyc
usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/termcolor.py
usr/doc/
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/termcolor.SlackBuild
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/README.rst
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/CHANGES.rst
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/PKG-INFO
usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/COPYING.txt
install/
install/slack-desc

No such package lua: Cant find

Remove packages:

$ slpkg -r termcolor

Packages with name matching [ termcolor ]

[ delete ] --> termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo

Are you sure to remove 1 package(s) [Y/n]? y

Package: termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo
    Removing...

Removing package /var/log/packages/termcolor-1.1.0-x86_64-1_SBo...
    Removing files:
--> Deleting /usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/CHANGES.rst
--> Deleting /usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/COPYING.txt
--> Deleting /usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/PKG-INFO
--> Deleting /usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/README.rst
--> Deleting /usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/termcolor.SlackBuild
--> Deleting /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor-1.1.0-py2.7.egg-info
--> Deleting /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.py
--> Deleting /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/termcolor.pyc
--> Deleting /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/__pycache__/termcolor.cpython-33.pyc
--> Deleting /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/termcolor-1.1.0-py3.3.egg-info
--> Deleting /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/termcolor.py
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/__pycache__/
WARNING: Unique directory /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/ contains new files
WARNING: Unique directory /usr/lib64/python3.3/ contains new files
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/doc/termcolor-1.1.0/

+==============================================================================
| Package: termcolor removed
+==============================================================================

Remove packages with all dependencies: (presupposes facility with the option ‘slpkg -s sbo <package>)

$ slpkg -r Flask

Packages with name matching [ Flask ]

[ delete ] --> Flask-0.10.1-x86_64-1_SBo

Are you sure to remove 1 package [Y/n]? y

+==============================================================================
| Found dependencies for package Flask:
+==============================================================================
| pysetuptools
| MarkupSafe
| itsdangerous
| Jinja2
| werkzeug
+==============================================================================

Remove dependencies (maybe used by other packages) [Y/n]? y
.
.
.
+==============================================================================
| Package Flask removed
| Package pysetuptools removed
| Package MarkupSafe removed
| Package itsdangerous removed
| Package Jinja2 removed
| Package werkzeug removed
+==============================================================================

Add packages in blacklist file manually from /etc/slpkg/blacklist or with the following options:

$ slpkg -b live555 speex faac --add

Add packages in blacklist:

live555
speex
faac


$ slpkg -b speex --remove

Remove packages from blacklist:

speex


$ slpkg -b --list

Packages in blacklist:

live555
faac

Man page it is available for full support:

$ man slpkg