Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

[Mateusz V. <ma...@vi...>]

Okay, that's it then.

FDNPKG was not 'installed' before, but just wildly decompressed, so 
FDNPKG can't know where these files come from, and won't take the risk 
to overwrite something potentially valuable.

This is also the reason why FDNPKG can't find any update for itself. 
Because, simply, you technically have no 'fdnpkg' package at all.

The solution is to move all the files that you decompressd manually 
somewhere else, and then run "fdnpkg install fdnpkg" to install fdnpkg 
for real :)

cheers,
Mateusz



On 10/10/2013 07:56 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
> Hi Mateusz,
>
>> Can you tell me what is the version of your current FDNPKG tool?
>> And how have you installed it the first time?
>
> Current version is v0.95.
>
> I don't remember how I installed it. However, the fdnpkg95.zip
> file is in my hard drive, so the installation was presumably
> done by manually decompressing that file.
>
>
>> What do the command 'fdnpk checkupdates' say (if you are on
>> v0.94 or newer)?
>
> 'checkupdates' says:
>
>      Configuring through DHCP..Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/free
>      dos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/base/...
>      Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
>      1/repos/archivers/...
>      Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
>      1/repos/devel/...
>      Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
>      1/repos/util/...
>      Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
>      1/repos/net/...
>      Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
>      1/repos/emulators/...
>      Loading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.
>      1/repos/games/...
>      0 package update(s) found.
>
>
>> Are the files that make the update fail (FDOS\appinfo\fdnpkg.lsm
>> and FDOS\BIN\fdnpkg.exe) listed in the
>> %DOSDIR%\packages\fdnpkg.lst ?
>
> There is no fdnpkg.lst file anywhere in the C drive. The
> C:\FDOS\PACKAGES\ folder contains only 3 files:
>
>      mbedit.lst
>      md5sum.lst
>      xcopy.lst
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcos
>
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