Thanks, gapan! All looks good now. I appreciate the speedy fix and look forward to updating all of my SlackBuilds tomorrow.

Thanks, gapan. I'll check back later for the new package. Yes, all of my package management tools that didn't come from Pat came from the Salix mirrors directly.

Specifically, I am using: http://salix.hostingxtreme.com/x86_64/14.1/

Yes, I am using spkg 1.0. I just tried doing a fresh install of it in case that was the problem.

I downloaded slapt-get and slapt-src from one of the Salix mirrors and I use them to try to build SBo and Salix packages from the Salix mirrors.

I am using:
slapt-src version 0.3.2e
slapt-get version 0.10.2p

Thanks, Mimosa. I was running Slackware 14.0 with Salix and SBo enhancements on this server. Today I used Pat's instructions to upgrade to Slackware 14.1. Then I changed the Salix repositories in Gslapt and Sourcery to 14.1 to update those packages. The packages Sourcery/slapt-src are building work,...

Hi everyone, I updated my server to Slackware 14.1 this afternoon. Everything went very smoothly, but now Sourcery does not install the packages it builds. I can manually install them though, and they work well. The error in the log is "unable to set command string." Does anyone have any t...

One is not better than the other for all tasks. Each has advantages and disadvantages. What do you plan to do with your computer? For general home use, I see no reason not to stick with the default ext4. This review covers several use cases, but it is a little out of date. http://www.debian-administ...

deja69 wrote:Do I really need a tracker?

Probably not. Are you having problems resolving dependencies now?

Then again, I never let go of old computers. I have a Thinkpad 600E laptop from 1999, with a 300 MHz Pentium II and 192 MB of RAM. Salix works on it, with the help of Fluxbox and zram compressed swap. But my point is, there is no reason that the the machine couldn't be a usable desktop, other than ...