How to install TCP Wrappers using the appropriate package manager? When I run pkgtool, I can see in the list that tcp_wrappers is included tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1. I want to install it.
I tried the command below, with no luck.
installpkg tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz
Whenever I run the command above, it says
Cannot install, file not found.
So I navigated to /var/log/packages, where the list of Slackware packages are listed and I found there tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1 file. So what I did is:
mv tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1 tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz
installpkg tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz
The prompt message is :
Verifying package tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz
gzip : stdin : not in gzip format
Installing package tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
WARNING: Package has not been created with 'makepkg'
Package tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz installed.
After, I verified whether the tcp_wrappers is already installed using the commands below, with no luck.
rpm -q tcp_wrappers
rpm -q tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1
rpm -q tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz
It just say:
package tcp_wrappers is not installed
package tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1 is not installed
package tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.tgz is not installed
what shall I do?
If it is in /var/log/packages, then it's already installed. Files in this directory are simple text files with package description, list of installed files etc. Try for example:
less /var/log/packages/tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1
On my box it shows:
PACKAGE NAME: tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 77.0K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 340K
PACKAGE LOCATION: /usb-stick/slackware64/n/tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-1.txz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
tcp_wrappers: tcp_wrappers (TCP/IP daemon wrapper library and utilities)
tcp_wrappers:
tcp_wrappers: With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for
tcp_wrappers: network services for access control, and detection things like host
tcp_wrappers: name spoofing and host address spoofing. Nearly all the network
tcp_wrappers: daemons on Slackware are "wrapped" using this library, and most
tcp_wrappers: daemons in /etc/inetd.conf use tcp_wrappers' tcpd wrapper daemon.
tcp_wrappers: If you plan to do much networking, you will need tcp_wrappers.
tcp_wrappers:
tcp_wrappers: tcp_wrappers was written by Wietse Venema.
tcp_wrappers:
FILE LIST:
./
install/
install/slack-desc
usr/
usr/doc/
usr/doc/tcp_wrappers_7.6/
usr/doc/tcp_wrappers_7.6/BLURB
usr/doc/tcp_wrappers_7.6/CHANGES
usr/doc/tcp_wrappers_7.6/DISCLAIMER
usr/doc/tcp_wrappers_7.6/README
usr/doc/tcp_wrappers_7.6/README.NIS
usr/include/
usr/include/tcpd.h
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rpm is RedHat tool. It will not show this package as installed, because pkgtool used by Slackware is not related to rpm in any way - it doesn't update rpm package database. rpm is installed in Slackware only for installing rpm packages, not to manage packages installed by native pkgtool.