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On Mon, 12 May 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

But I have these packages files and I have been installing with
installpkg, not once have I installed with pkgtool.  Installpkg also tries
to run an installation script but sometimes it cannot find one because it
is not there. (I get some message about not finding doinstall.sh?)  I find
it much easier just to type installpkg filename.tgz than to plow through a
bunch of menus that I cannot even read in mono. 

> keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> > 
> > /var/log/packages lists all the packages that 
> > were installed 
> 
> pkgtool creates those files.  If you use tar to install 
> packages, nothing will appear in /var/log/packages
> (nor will the installation script be run).  That's
> why I thought it was important for BasicLinux to
> provide the full pkgtool utility.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> 
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