Thursday, December 20, 2012

Useful slapt-get commands

Please refer to the documentation for slapt-get: man slapt-get, the HOWTOs at the VL Forum: slapt-get basics and gslapt basics or go to the slapt-get FAQ site for more advanced topics.
You may wish to try some of these slapt-get commands:
  • to list all the available packages from the source repository:
    slapt-get --available
  • to list only those packages that you have already installed:
    slapt-get --installed
  • to search the listings for specific package(s):
    slapt-get --search [packagename(s)]
  • to install (or to upgrade an already installed) package(s):
    slapt-get --install [packagename(s)]
  • to remove packages(s):
    slapt-get --remove [packagename(s)]
  • to clear your temp directory of downloaded packages:
    slapt-get --clean
  • to show a package(s) description:
    slapt-get --show [package(s)]
  • to reinstall an existing package:
    slapt-get --reinstall --install [package]
  • to downgrade a package:
    slapt-get --reinstall --install [exactpackagenameandnumbers]
  • to show a sorted, paged list of available packages from the source repository: slapt-get —available | sort | less
  • to show a sorted, paged list of installed packages on your system:
    slapt-get --installed|sort|less
  • to show a sorted, paged list of available, uninstalled packages:
    slapt-get --available|grep inst=no|sort|less
  • to show only available packages related to e.g. fluxbox:
    slapt-get --available|grep fluxbox
  • to show only available, uninstalled packages specifically packaged for VL5:
    slapt-get --available|grep inst=no|grep vl5|sort|less
  • to install all packages pertaining to e.g. fluxbox:
    slapt-get --available|grep fluxbox|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq|xargs -r slapt-get --install
  • to install every available package not yet installed (DANGER!):
    slapt-get --available|grep inst=no|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq|xargs -r slapt-get --install
     
    souce link : http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/live/slax/slax02-SlackwarePackagesRepositories/single/ 

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