What is current best way to get 'make' tool installed on unraid?

None, you use a container or VM. Make on its own does very little and would be useless, and a full build environment would not be practical or even possible to install in unraid.

nerdtools just worked; i tried un-get, and it is not smart enough to figure out that in order to run something, you might need other libraries too

i installed powertop and then it didn't work because it needed something else "powertop: error while loading shared libraries: libnl-genl-3.so.200: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

i installed mktorrent and it also didn't work because it needed something else to run "mktorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

i installed mediainfo and it needed two other libraries to work, you get the idea, installing a package manually is not enough; you also need to figure out what other dependencies that package has, nerdtools did all that for us

On 9/4/2025 at 3:37 AM, cprn.1337 said:

nerdtools just worked; i tried un-get, and it is not smart enough to figure out that in order to run something, you might need other libraries too

i installed powertop and then it didn't work because it needed something else "powertop: error while loading shared libraries: libnl-genl-3.so.200: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

i installed mktorrent and it also didn't work because it needed something else to run "mktorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

i installed mediainfo and it needed two other libraries to work, you get the idea, installing a package manually is not enough; you also need to figure out what other dependencies that package has, nerdtools did all that for us

unget is more for grap this pacakge your clealy missing a lib that you also need to install...

This is why I use pkags.org to verify

https://slackware.pkgs.org/15.0/slackware-x86_64/powertop-2.13-x86_64-3.txz.html

powertop may also be bad on the source github.

try adding the slackpack offical binary:
https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/ap/powertop-2.13-x86_64-3.txz

I haven't see any updates from shinji257
in quite some time...

This forum area is esentail dead. for the unget stuff and shinji257 github request stuff:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/185363-supportrequests-shinji257s-slackwareunraid-package-repository/

https://github.com/shinji257/unraid_pkgs

list of applications avilable via unget. (they may be behind... given the slakware version we are at now...)

GitHub

unraid_pkgs/slackware64-current at main · shinji257/unrai...

Contribute to shinji257/unraid_pkgs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hello Y'all!
I started my own un-get repo to build some of the best missing tools.

Package	Tags
dust	1.2.3
fd	10.3.0
lazydocker	0.24.1
lazygit	0.55.1
lsd	1.2.0
micro	2.0.14
resvg	0.45.1
ripgrep	14.1.1
starship	1.23.0
yazi	25.5.31
zoxide	0.9.8
yq	4.50.1

The major advantage is that it's using GitHub Actions to build the tools directly from the source, so you don't need to worry about the repo maintainer tampering with the tools. Also, it’s way easier to update and add new tools.

If people like it, I will add things like:

• More architecture support (right now only x64)

• Automatic build of new versions when upstream updates

• More tools
  

GitHub

GitHub - borgmon/slackware-pkg

Contribute to borgmon/slackware-pkg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Edited December 27, 2025Dec 27 by just_cat

4 hours ago, just_cat said:

Hello Y'all!
I started my own un-get repo to build some of the best Rust-based tools.

• ripgrep

• yazi

• lsd

• fd

• zoxide

• resvg

• micro

see all here

The major advantage is that it's using GitHub Actions to build the tools directly from the source, so you don't need to worry about the repo maintainer tampering with the tools. Also, it’s way easier to update and add new tools.

If people like it, I will add things like:

• More architecture support (right now only x64)

• Automatic build of new versions when upstream updates

• More tools
  

GitHub

GitHub - borgmon/slackware-pkg

Contribute to borgmon/slackware-pkg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Oooh Micro, yes please😁

12 hours ago, just_cat said:

Hello Y'all!
I started my own un-get repo to build some of the best Rust-based tools.

• ripgrep

• yazi

• lsd

• fd

• zoxide

• resvg

• micro

see all here

The major advantage is that it's using GitHub Actions to build the tools directly from the source, so you don't need to worry about the repo maintainer tampering with the tools. Also, it’s way easier to update and add new tools.

If people like it, I will add things like:

• More architecture support (right now only x64)

• Automatic build of new versions when upstream updates

• More tools
  

GitHub

GitHub - borgmon/slackware-pkg

Contribute to borgmon/slackware-pkg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thanks, everything works fine, however - where do config files go? For instance, for yazi, where should yazi.toml be created?

On 10/14/2025 at 9:23 AM, Krakout said:

Thanks, everything works fine, however - where do config files go? For instance, for yazi, where should yazi.toml be created?

Hi! This repo only install the bins. Everything else should remains the same.

for yazi, it should be in ~/.config/yazi/yazi.toml

Do note: this location is not safe. It will be reset after you restart. You might be able to set it in the /boot/config/go.

Edited October 20, 2025Oct 20 by just_cat

11 hours ago, just_cat said:

Hi! This repo only install the bins. Everything else should remains the same.

for yazi, it should be in ~/.config/yazi/yazi.toml

Do note: this location is not safe. It will be reset after you restart. You might be able to set your home directory in the array.

Ahhh I see, thanks for the clarification! I'd rather not mess up with the home directory, who knows what else will break if I do... so, defaults it is

16 hours ago, Krakout said:

Ahhh I see, thanks for the clarification! I'd rather not mess up with the home directory, who knows what else will break if I do... so, defaults it is

I updated my comment. You don’t need to (or shouldn’t to) mount the home folder. But you can add it to your /boot/config/go

Edited October 20, 2025Oct 20 by just_cat

How do I get "jdupes" installed via un-get? I currently did my own build and install, but would much prefer a simpler solution. It also involves building the dependencies.

Can the un-get search feature also display the version? I don't know which version the repository has versus what I have installed.

# un-get search jdupes
Please wait, performing search...
Found the following installed package(s) already installed on your
system which are not qualifying for reinstall through un-get:
jdupes

Not sure if I asked this previously but this has me stumped.

root@tdm:~# un-get search yq

Please wait, performing search...

Found the following package(s) for your search 'yq' in repositories:

pyquery-2.0.1

PyQt-builder-1.19.0

PyQt5-5.15.11

PyQt5_sip-12.17.1

python-doxyqml-0.5.3

root@tdm:~# un-get install yq

Can't find package(s): yq!

What am I doing wrong?

Uh, as you can see there's no package called "yq", the search returned all packages that include that in the name, if you want one of those you need to pass the full name...

19 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Uh, as you can see there's no package called "yq", the search returned all packages that include that in the name, if you want one of those you need to pass the full name...

now I feel stupid.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious I just didn't see.

I am after yq, the yaml version of the jq parser.

Edited November 15, 2025Nov 15 by dalben

On 11/15/2025 at 1:23 AM, dalben said:

now I feel stupid.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious I just didn't see.

I am after yq, the yaml version of the jq parser.

Hi! I added yq to my repo:
https://github.com/borgmon/slackware-pkg

Enjoy!