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Article #54327Trouble removing package under slackware
From: Martin Kuchlmayer
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 00:00
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I have installed slackware but have run into some trouble. I was installing some packages when I ran out of disk space. So I decided to remove some packages and re-install them on another partition. I would also need to remove the package set that the install died on. I used pkgtool to remove emacs, which it seemed to do - the next time I ran pkgtool, emacs was not available - and emacs is listed in file /var/adm/removed_packages. However there are still some files in the emacs dir tree. Some of these are listed in files in dir /var/adm/packages (which I assume is where pkgtool and the install prog keep their info). However there numerous files in dir /usr/share/emacs/19.34/etc/lisp that are not listed in any file in the packages dir. Nor are they listed in the removed_packages file. All these files have extension ".elc". So did something go wrong here? Should I just delete these files? Will I have trouble removing packages that the install died on (I don't think it was emacs)? I am using slackware 3.3.0 with kernal 2.0.30. I think I had trouble seeing any way of telling the slackware install prog (I think its name is setup) to install a package to a different dir. How do I do this? Or is it best to just put /usr on a different partition? Any advice on how to divide the linux directory tree across 2 partitions would also be appreciated. 2 more beginner questions - these are do really fall under this subject but are not important enough to warrant a seperate posting: I have found that not all the information displayed at boot time is in /var/adm/syslog (or messages). Does it appear somewhere else? I am getting a message at boot time: modeprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 Should I worry about this? I will be gratefull for any help, Martin
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,8c64aca4afe06f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: mbk@octarine.adfa.oz.au (Martin Kuchlmayer) Subject: Trouble removing package under slackware Date: 1997/11/07 Message-ID: <mbk.878875712@octarine> X-Deja-AN: 287597518 Summary: Attempted to remove emacs pkgtool - not all files removed. Keywords: pkgtool slackware directory-structure emacs Organization: ADFA News Service Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux