[Slackbuilds-users] pdfstudioviewer 2024.0.1 : typo in slackbuild script?

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Fri Mar 6 05:17:54 UTC 2026


>The build output included
>
>  ...<snip>..
>  opt/pdfstudioviewer2024/updater
>  chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink './usr/bin/pdfstudioviewer'
>
>  [Note: this part of the build was not running as user root.
>   My SlackBuilds are split into 2 parts; everything up to makepkg,
>   which runs as a normal user, and the makepkg, which runs as root.
>  ]
>
>which I concluded came from line 67 in the SlackBuild script
>
>  ln -s /opt/$PRGNAM$YEAR/$PRGNAM$YEAR $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
>
>So I inserted a "$PKG" in that line
>
>  ln -s $PKG/opt/$PRGNAM$YEAR/$PRGNAM$YEAR $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
>
>and all went well.  I now have a working pdfstudioviewer.
>
>Is there anything further I can do to help?


The code is correct in the first place
if you put $PKG in the first part of ln, it will have a link to
temporary build directory instead of coming from root directory when
you install the package.

You can try to remove the /tmp/SBo directory and see if you have a
broken link on /usr/bin/

--
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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