So I was trying to install rsnapshot but every time I try to use the  SlackBuild at https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/misc/rsnapshot/?search=rsnapshot it throws an error:

make: command not found

 

SlackBuilds instructions and many stack overflow posts seem to imply that make comes with slackware, so what should I do?

 

Also, how do you guys go about installing packages? Is there anything unusual about unraid? The rsnapshot stuff I found on the forum seems to reinstall (using installpkg) rsnapshot every time the computer reboots. Is this necessary?

 

Thanks.

Also, how do you guys go about installing packages? Is there anything unusual about unraid? The rsnapshot stuff I found on the forum seems to reinstall (using installpkg) rsnapshot every time the computer reboots. Is this necessary?

unRaid runs in RAM, so yes you need to reinstall any and all packages during a reboot.  Any package found in /boot/extra will be automatically installed during boot.

Also, how do you guys go about installing packages? Is there anything unusual about unraid? The rsnapshot stuff I found on the forum seems to reinstall (using installpkg) rsnapshot every time the computer reboots. Is this necessary?

unRaid runs in RAM, so yes you need to reinstall any and all packages during a reboot.  Any package found in /boot/extra will be automatically installed during boot.

 

So what does it do at boot? Does it just run installpkg on every tgz (or whatever) in that directory? Is there no way to make it do slack build scripts?

Also, how do you guys go about installing packages? Is there anything unusual about unraid? The rsnapshot stuff I found on the forum seems to reinstall (using installpkg) rsnapshot every time the computer reboots. Is this necessary?

unRaid runs in RAM, so yes you need to reinstall any and all packages during a reboot.  Any package found in /boot/extra will be automatically installed during boot.

 

So what does it do at boot? Does it just run installpkg on every tgz (or whatever) in that directory? Is there no way to make it do slack build scripts?

Does an installpkg on all the txz's it finds.  No idea about build scripts.  You'll have to wait for a real 'nix guy around here.

make is not part of unRAID's stripped down slackware. Since it was designed to run in a small amount of RAM some things that you might find in a standard Slackware installation aren't there since they aren't need to support unRAID's builtin functionality. The entire OS is unpacked fresh from bzroot into a RAM filesystem on each bootup. The flash drive basically just contains the bootup code, the bzroot archive, and files used to store settings made in the webUI so they persist. You can add things to the flash and make them install on bootup as mentioned already. Plugins also store their code on the flash for reinstall on bootup.