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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Anyone Using Slackware Anymore? Post 302868729 by in2nix4life on Monday 28th of October 2013 04:18:08 PM

10-28-2013

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I have to agree with you. Slackware is rock-solid, but still a beast in terms of software management.

Even between the slackpkg tool and the Slackbuilds website, it's still a lot of tweaking and issues. I had an issue recently on my box where I installed a lot of tools that I needed downloaded from the Slackbuilds website. Didn't run into too many issues getting them installed, however, one day I decided to do the equivalent of a yum clean all, or apt-get clean using the slackpkg tool. Well all seemed fine until I ran a command from one of the tools that I installed and it came back with a command not found message. A little investigating and it seems that when I ran the slackpkg clean-system command, it really did clean the system. It seems that since those packages weren't installed using slackpkg the app saw them as packages that were no longer installed. So that led to me having to re-install all those tools again... Smilie

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yum-langpacks

yum-langpacks(8)														  yum-langpacks(8)

NAME

       yum-langpacks - Plugin for yum

SYNOPSIS

       yum [command] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION

       yum-langpacks is a plugin for yum to install language packs. This plugin allows user various commands.

       command is one of:
	* langavailable [language1] [language2] [...]
	* langinfo [language1] [language2] [...]
	* langinstall [language1] [language2] [...]
	* langlist [language1] [language2] [...]
	* langremove [language1] [language2] [...]

       langavailable
	      This command allows user to find if language support is available for the given input languages.

       langinfo
	      This command allows user to check which packages will get installed when the given input language support is installed.

       langinstall
	      This command allows user to install language packs for the given input languages.

       langlist
	      This command prints list of the installed languages.

       langremove
	      This command allows user to remove the installed language packs for a given input languages.

EXAMPLES

	  To check what packages get installed for language codes es_ES, hi_IN and language names Japanese and Portuguese (Brazil).
	  yum langinfo es_ES "Japanese" hi_IN "Portuguese (Brazil)"

NOTES

	  These commands accept language codes or language names or mix of them as a input.

SEE ALSO

       yum (8)

BUGS

       Please report any bugs in Red Hat bugzilla, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora

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