#182 FDPKG missing on FreeDOS 1.2

[Udo Schroeter]

Full install of 1.2 is missing FDPKG, and worse, it's nowhere to be found on the install CD either. Yet, the help command suggests this as the primary way of installing packages.

Was this a mistake or is FDPKG obsolete?
If it's obsolete, the help text should be changed.
What's the recommended way of installing packages now?
If the answer is "unzipping and copying manually", why is there still a package format at all?

Other commands that are mentioned on the standard help screen are FDHELP and FSUITE04, among others, neither of which are installed or - as far as I can tell - present on the install CD.

[Anthony Williams]

FDPKG was offline only and is replaced by the network-aware FDNPKG tool (and accompanying FDINST).

http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net/

http://www.freedos.org/software/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-util.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/fdnpkg.html

http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FDNPKG
http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package

The offline help probably needs updating, but AFAIK no one is still actively working on it.

[Udo Schroeter]

I wasn't aware that FDNPKG can also be used for offline installs, sorry I'm
new here and missed it :)

I wouldn't feel comfortable updating the help yet, but maybe later when I
know more about FreeDOS... if you accept pull requests, I'd be up for
working on it eventually :)

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 21:57 Anthony Williams rugxulo@users.sf.net wrote:

FDPKG was offline only and is replaced by the network-aware FDNPKG tool
(and accompanying FDINST).

http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net/

http://www.freedos.org/software/

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-util.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/fdnpkg.html

http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FDNPKG
http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package

The offline help probably needs updating, but AFAIK no one is still
actively working on it.

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• [bugs:#182] https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/182/ FDPKG missing
  on FreeDOS 1.2*

Status: open
Group:
Created: Thu Mar 23, 2017 04:35 AM UTC by Udo Schroeter
Last Updated: Thu Mar 23, 2017 04:35 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

Full install of 1.2 is missing FDPKG, and worse, it's nowhere to be found
on the install CD either. Yet, the help command suggests this as the
primary way of installing packages.

Was this a mistake or is FDPKG obsolete?
If it's obsolete, the help text should be changed.
What's the recommended way of installing packages now?
If the answer is "unzipping and copying manually", why is there still a
package format at all?

Other commands that are mentioned on the standard help screen are FDHELP
and FSUITE04, among others, neither of which are installed or - as far as I
can tell - present on the install CD.

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[Jim Hall]

I think we can close this one, since discussion indicated it's FDNPKG instead of FDPKG.