SlackBuilds: Where Are They Located?
You should find a file in /var/log/packages for each
SlackBuild that you have installed. You can distinguish the
SlackBuilds package from standard Slackware packages by the
substring SBo embedded in the filename. So you can create a
list of all of the SlackBuilds installed on your machine by
just doing an ls *SBo* in that directory.
ls /var/log/packages | grep SBo
or
ls /var/log/packages/*SBo
If you plan on reinstalling it may be a good idea to pipe that information out to a text file.
ls /var/log/packages | grep SBo > SBo_packages.txt
If you cat one of those files you will display a text
file that lists certain information about the package, the location of
the package and a brief description. For example, the file for
sigil package starts like this:
PACKAGE NAME: sigil-0.9.12-x86_64-1_SBo
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 7.7M
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 25M
PACKAGE LOCATION: /tmp/sigil-0.9.12-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
sigil: sigil (Multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor)
sigil:
sigil: Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to
sigil: edit books in ePub format.
sigil:
sigil: Homepage: https://sigil-ebook.com/
sigil:
It then goes on and displays a file list of all of the files contained by the package and where they were installed.
Armed with the above information, you can the cd to the
/tmp directory and find the package itself:
$ cd /tmp
$ ls -l sigil-0.9.12-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8070041 May 29 16:24 sigil-0.9.12-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
$
Tags: cli, slackware, slackbuilds, motd