Setting Queue for sbopkg failed [SOLVED ]

chekkizhar

Recently I have installed Slackware 13.37 .

I tried to setup the queue file . But, whenever, whatever package I tried to install , I got,

" No valid queuefile or package name given. Exiting."

I looked into queue file and gave one package name [ google earth ] which exist in the file. For that too, I got the error message.

So far, can not make out with google.

I cannot able to figure out, where I did mistake .

mfillpot

It sounds like a name issue, since google earth is listeded as google-easrth.
Have you attempted to use the sbopkg gui tool to pre-select the packages from the search function and building a queue that way?

chekkizhar

mfillpot wrote:

Have you attempted to use the sbopkg gui tool to pre-select the packages from the search function and building a queue that way?

after read your reply, I tried. All options from the sbopkg menu, throws different errors, which are ultimately saying that, their content is empty. No, sbo files installed , like that

Thanks Matthew.

mfillpot

Have you used the command "sbopkg -r" to start the sync the repo? and if all else fails you can remove the configuration files and application then reinstall.

chekkizhar

mfillpot wrote:

Have you used the command "sbopkg -r" to start the sync the repo?

Great .
just now I tried and now, things started to WORK. Thanks matt.

Actually , after I had gone through the man page of sbopkg , to know more about it. There , the flag " -r ", just stated

" ``Rsync'' the local repository with SBo and quit. "

So, I was not much into that flag.

can you please explain , what problem I had, and how this option, resolved this , if time permits ?

I am not sure about my problem, but I guess, some wrong addition/installation of queue file.
And I guess, it resolved this by, removing all queue files and setup a new queue file.

mfillpot

The r flag tells sbopkg to use rsyn to make a mirror of all slackbuilds from Slabkbuilds.org, so it is used to get the initial list and to update your scripts so that you can receive the updates for the apps.

chekkizhar

ok. Need to dig around more and happy to have problems like this, to learn more.

Thanks matthew