Hello,

I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:

Download Xdialog and install

http://xdialog.dyns.net/

replace /bin/dialog by Xdialog

you are done pkgtool is now a nice GUI program. This trick work also for
texconfig.

The reason is that the dialog box displayed by pkgtool use "dialog" to
display these. Xdialog is fully compatible with dialog but display X
dialog box instead of the curse dialog box you see in the terminal.

Olive

Olive wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:
>
> Download Xdialog and install
>
> http://xdialog.dyns.net/
>
> replace /bin/dialog by Xdialog
>
> you are done pkgtool is now a nice GUI program. This trick work also for
> texconfig.
>
> The reason is that the dialog box displayed by pkgtool use "dialog" to
> display these. Xdialog is fully compatible with dialog but display X
> dialog box instead of the curse dialog box you see in the terminal.
>
> Olive

hoi,

works great here, looks very nice.

a few notes :
- compile it as root , otherwise it won't work ( well...here it didn't )

to install: ( workdir=/.../Xdialog-2.1.2/src )
-#mv /bin/dialog /bin/dialog.slack
-#cp Xdialog /bin/dialog

thanks for the tip.

cashmir

There is also;

http://gnome-pkgtool.sourceforge.net/

For us Gnome Freaks :-)

Olive wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:
>
> Download Xdialog and install
>
> http://xdialog.dyns.net/
>
> replace /bin/dialog by Xdialog
>
> you are done pkgtool is now a nice GUI program. This trick work also for
> texconfig.
>
> The reason is that the dialog box displayed by pkgtool use "dialog" to
> display these. Xdialog is fully compatible with dialog but display X
> dialog box instead of the curse dialog box you see in the terminal.
>
> Olive


I haven't checked, but it seems like vector linux did this to the
slackware pkgtool program a long time ago. I did wonder about that at
some point. Thanks.

Olive wrote:

> I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:

And what's the advantage of that?

Cheerz Lars

Here comes a new acronym : JFF which stand for Just For Fun

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:49:38 +0100
Lars Behrens <Spam.Buster@web.de> a écrit:

> Olive wrote:
>
> > I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:
>
> And what's the advantage of that?
>
> Cheerz Lars
>
>

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Lars Behrens <Spam.Buster@web.de> trolled:
> Olive wrote:
>
>> I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:
>
> And what's the advantage of that?

There's a stupid question. A gui program will run natively in a
gui environment.

Duh.

cordially, as always,

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Cycojesus wrote:
> Here comes a new acronym : JFF which stand for Just For Fun

This was exactly my purpose. I found particularly funny that such a
thing is possible without changing a single byte in pkgtool itself!

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:32:27 +0100
Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> a écrit:

> Cycojesus wrote:
> > Here comes a new acronym : JFF which stand for Just For Fun
>
> This was exactly my purpose. I found particularly funny that such a
> thing is possible without changing a single byte in pkgtool itself!

Now there still is a little problem, when you go to the 'view' or 'remove' stuff
all gui disappear while pkgtool compute the list of packages...

Cycojesus wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:32:27 +0100
> Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> a écrit:
>
>
>>Cycojesus wrote:
>>
>>>Here comes a new acronym : JFF which stand for Just For Fun
>>
>>This was exactly my purpose. I found particularly funny that such a
>>thing is possible without changing a single byte in pkgtool itself!
>
>
> Now there still is a little problem, when you go to the 'view' or 'remove' stuff
> all gui disappear while pkgtool compute the list of packages...

That's true but, it reappears once the package list has been computed so
I consider it to be a very small problem. (rem: I use Xdialog 2.1.1).

Olive