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actua11

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Registered: 2015-04-04

Posts: 9

Upgrade Slitaz from usb in terminal

I've a quick question, that I've realised I'm out of my depth trying to figure out.

I've been using Slitaz for a few months on a Samsung netbook, however just recently it has developed an error where it does not boot to the GUI, just to a command prompt/terminal interface.

My thought would be to simply upgrade Slitaz which should fix the errors, however the netbook only boots from HDD, not usb or cd drive.

So my question is, is it possible to trigger a slitaz upgrade from the terminal?

*If it's any help the error message reads as "/usr/bin/slim: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Any help appreciated

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Upgrade Slitaz from usb in terminal

[c]sda3@slitaz:~$ tazpkg search-file libz.so.1

Search result for file "libz.so.1"

================================================================================

Package zlib:

/usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.8

/usr/lib/libz.so.1

================================================================================

2 files[/c]

libz.so.1 is a file of zlib. Re-install zlib:

open a terminal as root and type

[c]tazpkg -gi zlib --forced[/c]

actua11

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Registered: 2015-04-04

Posts: 9

Re: Upgrade Slitaz from usb in terminal

Thanks for the quick response Ceel

I'm with you so far, however I can't seem to connect online to install this tazpkg from the repository. Any attempts to change or restart network settings are showing me the same zlib error.

I have found a copy of the zlib tazpkg on filewatcher.com, however I am unsure of which paths to use to either copy the file from usb to the hdd and run the .tazpkg file from there, or to run the .tazpkg directly from the usb. Is the possible?

*Just for reference, my network errors are as follows.- Using "/etc/init.d/netwrok.sh restart", I am recieving the zlib library error for 'wpa_supplicant: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open........'

"ipconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device"

"Wlan0: No such device"

"tunl0: no wireless extensions"

"tunl0 no wireless extensions"

"configuring...lo no wireless extension"

Again, thanks for your previous help

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Upgrade Slitaz from usb in terminal

Hmmm, I don't know what package you've found on filewatcher.com. Better to copy it from here:

- http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/stable/zlib-1.2.6.tazpkg if you are using SliTaz 4.0,

- http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/cooking/zlib-1.2.8.tazpkg if you are using rolling.

You have to install zlib from the directory where is the .tazpkg file.

Open PCmanFM and go to the directory,

open a terminal (from the menu with SliTaz 4.0, [F4] with rolling),

become root and type[c]

tazpkg -i zlib-1.2.#.tazpkg --forced[/c]

where # is 6 (SliTaz 4.0) or 8 (rolling)