slackware utilities¶ ↑

Summary¶ ↑

A handful of commands to quickly/easily access information on the Slackware Linux distribution. Further, this provides a ruby library for ‘slackware’.

Description¶ ↑

slack-utils

slp - shows installed slackware packages with no args, it will show all. or for each arg it will search the package names.

slf - search installed slackware packages for a file this expects an arg(s), and will output, in grep fashion packages matching your search args.

slt - mtime/install time of slackware packages with no args, it will show all. or for each arg it will search the package names.

sll - list the contents of packages matching the

slo - find files in /etc/, that have been orphaned and left behind by unistalled/upgraded packages

sli - display the package information for matching packages

slu - display the upgrade history for matching packages

slfindlinked - finds what is linked to your argument, and it’s package expects 1 argument passed.

Release Notes¶ ↑

See github.com/vbatts/slack-utils/wiki/Release-Notes

Installation¶ ↑

From git¶ ↑

>> git clone git://github.com/vbatts/slack-utils.git
>> cd slack-utils
>> make slackpkg
>> sudo upgradepkg --install-new pkg/slack-utils-0.6.2-$ARCH-1_vb.tgz

From tar ball¶ ↑

>> tar xfz slack-utils-0.6.2.tar.gz
>> cd slack-utils-0.6.2
>> ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/man
>> ruby setup.rb install

From the rubygems repo¶ ↑

>> sudo gem install slack-utils

From the gem¶ ↑

>> git clone git://github.com/vbatts/slack-utils.git
>> cd slack-utils/src
>> rake gem
>> sudo gem install pkg/slack-utils-$VERSION.gem

Quick Start¶ ↑

Using the commands¶ ↑

See the system manual page slack-utils(8)

Using the API / library¶ ↑

$ irb
>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'slackware'
>> pkg = Slackware::Packware.new()
>> pkg.name = "hello-kitty"
>> pkg.version = "1.0"

or

>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'slackware'
>> tags = Slackware::System.tags_used
=> ["SBo","alien","rlw"]

Usage¶ ↑

Show data¶ ↑

Note:

Examples¶ ↑

see the exmamples/ files

Help¶ ↑

There are many more methods than are documented on this page. Please explore the RDOC to find more functionality.

For more complex examples, please see the examples directory

(GEM_ROOT/gems/slack-utils-<version>/examples/).

You can also contact me for more help or suggestions.

Bugs and such¶ ↑

Open an “issue” here github.com/vbatts/slack-utils/issues