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Ed P — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:57:03 -0000

Any plans to update this to support the new Porteus 5.0 release??

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Jay Flood — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:26:47 -0000

USM (Unified Slackware Package Manager)

Description

USM is a unified slackware package manager that supports dependency resolution. It integrates various package repositories including slackware, slacky, slackers, salix and alien. It includes a system wide dependency resolver.

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History

Launched: 15th January 2014

USM came into being as an attempt to increase (if ever so slightly) the number of packages available for slackware and to offer some kind of dependency resolution, all in one tool.

This application is in it's infancy and is continually being developed. Suggestions and feedback are most welcome. At the moment only a CLI version is available. Once the application becomes stable and all features are complete a GUI will be written for it.

Usage

For a usage example put a "?" after the option: usm -u ?

You may use either the single letter argument or full word.
For example the following have exactly the same meaning.

usm -u slackware
usm -update slackware
usm --update slackware
usm update slackware

-u [alien|salix|slackers|slackware|slacky|all|usm] Update databases.
-s <package> Package search.
-s <library> Reverse library search.
-i <package> Package information.
-g <package> Download package.
-l <package> List packages.
-c <distro> Open repo changelog.
-h Show this help.
-S </path/to/folder> Set local storage.
-S [14.0|14.1] Set slackware version.

Usage explained

-u Update database
Used to download/update the database files that contain the package information for different distros. To check for updates to USM itself use: usm -u usm

-s Search for a package or library
Enter all or part of a package name to search the database for this package. If you enter a library name (E.g libsomething.so.1.2.3) then USM will attempt to return the package that the library belongs to.

-i Package information
This option returns the package name, size, install status and description of any packages found for the package you type.

-g Download package
Searches for and downloads the requested package. USM will attempt to resolve dependencies (and dependencies of dependencies) for the requested package.

-l List packages
If no argument is given it will list all installed packages. If an argument is given it will search the installed packages for word you type.

-c Open distro changelog
This will open the ChangeLog.txt file for a given repository. This is useful when you want to see what new packages were added to a repo.

-S Set local storage or slackware version
If -S is followed by a valid slackware version (E.g 14.1) then USM will be set to this version. You will need to update the database files after changing versions. If -S is followed by a path to a directory on your computer then it will set the local storage to this path and all downloaded packages will land in the given directory.

Config files

/etc/usm/usm.conf
While most settings can be changed within the application, you may edit the config file directly. It is well commented and easy to understand.

/etc/usm/mirrors-distro.txt
This file contains the URL of the repository that will be used by USM. Please make sure ONLY ONE repository is uncommented in this file.

Known bugs

When USM opens a changelog file for a distro, it will attempt to find the system browser. If it finds one it will open the ChangeLog.txt file in the system browser and send the process to the background. This is producing an error in the terminal which occasionally hangs until killed via ctrl+c. This hanging process persists even after the browser is closed.

TODO list

Add 32bit support
Add slackware patches section
Add slackbuilds support
Add check for non slackware compliant packages
Add option to skip dependency checking
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Jay Flood — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:43:12 -0000

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