Hi, I'm using Slackware current.
I've updated my current after about two months from the last update, and since there was a huge number of changes I'm having some problems.
In particular, I've forgot (my fault!) to give a "slackpkg install-new" before rebooting, so now I'm getting stuck...

Installpkg now claims a "rev" command, but I cannot figure how to find it, since the Slackware package browser on the website is still broken (when will it be available?!?!). Now, each time I try to install or upgrade a new package, I get this error:

/sbin/upgradepkg: line 41: rev: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 59: rev: command not found

Where can I find the package containing "rev"?

Thanks
Stefano

The "rev" program is part of "util-linux-ng". Your problem may be elsewhere, because I don't believe you are missing this package. Rather, something else went wrong during the upgrade.

Perhaps the best thing to do is create a Slackware-current DVD ISO, burn that to a medium, boot from it, then instead of running "setup" you mount your local hard disk partition under "/mnt" as well as your DVD below "/var/log/mount" and then use the command
to upgrade your already installed Slackware packages.

Then read the ChangeLog.txt for Slackware-current carefully, and look for packages that have been added (the word "Added" will be present in that entry, so use that in your search) and install those packages (still running from the DVD) with
Perhaps that will help. Also do not forget to look for *.new files which may have been left in the /etc/ directory of your harddisk (which is /mnt/etc while you are still running from the DVD) and do something wise with those.

Eric

Thanks for your reply.

I've solved by booting from the Slackware 13.0 dvd, then I've manually downloaded util-linux-ng, I've exploded the package and copied rev to the /usr/bin directory of my installation. Then I've chrooted on that partition, reinstalled util-linux-ng and ran slackpkg. Now the system boots.