October 5, 201114 yr Hi all! I am completely new to unRAID and Slackware, though I have general Linux experience. I want to install detox to my unRAID server, it is a little command line tool to change tricky characters in filenames: Detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them. (http://detox.sourceforge.net/) I found there are Slackware packages available: http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=detox&sv= Now I looked around the forum and Wiki and while there is a lot of information, I really hesitate because I do not want to destroy my new and so far well running unRAID installation. Surely it can not be very difficult to add a Slackware package and maybe someone can point me in the right direction or provide me with the necessary steps to do this correctly? I guess I am not the only one struggling with tricky characters in filenames, so this might be beneficial to others, detox is a very good tool to deal with this. Thanks in advance!
October 5, 201114 yr Hi all! I am completely new to unRAID and Slackware, though I have general Linux experience. I want to install detox to my unRAID server, it is a little command line tool to change tricky characters in filenames: Detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them. (http://detox.sourceforge.net/) I found there are Slackware packages available: http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=detox&sv= Now I looked around the forum and Wiki and while there is a lot of information, I really hesitate because I do not want to destroy my new and so far well running unRAID installation. Surely it can not be very difficult to add a Slackware package and maybe someone can point me in the right direction or provide me with the necessary steps to do this correctly? I guess I am not the only one struggling with tricky characters in filenames, so this might be beneficial to others, detox is a very good tool to deal with this. Thanks in advance! The easiest way to do it is to create a folder on your flash drive called "extra" and place the .txz/tgz file in there and reboot. The package should get installed on every reboot. If you give me about 1 hour I can create an unMenu package manager plugin for this without to much issue since there appears to be slackware packages for it. EDIT: it will be more than an hour. The only .txz/tgz file I could find was for a very old version of slackware. I would have to build/make a newer slackware package, which is doable just more time consuming.
October 5, 201114 yr Author Thanks a lot! I have not yet tried it - SlackBuilds has two version, does it matter which one I choose? An unMenu package manager plugin would be greatly appreciated of course - I have just seen your edit. Are the files in the SlackBuilds link above not the correct ones?
October 5, 201114 yr Author Maybe I misunderstood, but the current version seems to be 13.37 and a detox Slackware package for that version seems to be available here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/system/detox/ But as I said I have no idea how things are handled in Slackware land
October 5, 201114 yr Maybe I misunderstood, but the current version seems to be 13.37 and a detox Slackware package for that version seems to be available here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/system/detox/ But as I said I have no idea how things are handled in Slackware land There are BUILDS available, but no ready made .tgz/.txz file that I could find easily. That means either you build it yourself using the slcakbuild or use a 1.0 version that I found for slackware 10.X Make a slackware package should not be overly difficult, just takes some time.
October 5, 201114 yr Aha! Ok I understand that now, thanks for clarification! OK, I have been able to compile detox 1.2 on a 5.0b12 system after I added quite a few packages. I will see about packaging it up into a slackware installable package and then may contact you to test on your system. Out of curiosity was is your hardware breakdown?
October 6, 201114 yr Author Hi sorry for the late reply, I have been busy. A package usable on unRAID would be great, thank you very much! My hardware is Asus M4A78LT-M, Athlon II x2 240e CPU, 4GB RAM, two Seagate 2 TB drives and one WD 2 TB drive, do you need to know more? Oh and I'm running unRAID 4.7. Thanks again!
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