Useless dependance to use qstat

Asked by melsophos

Binary package hint: qstat

I have installed qstat, but I can not use it in command line, I received this message :
Le programme 'qstat' n'est pas installé actuellement. Vous pouvez l'installer en tapant :
sudo apt-get install torque-client
bash: qstat : commande introuvable

If I install torque-client (which depend from several dependances like tcl and tk 8.3), I have error like (I tested with "qstat -xml -R -carets -woets xx.xxx.x.xx:xxxxx") :
qstat: invalid option -- m
qstat: invalid option -- l
qstat: invalid option -- c
qstat: invalid option -- t
qstat: invalid option -- w
qstat: invalid option -- o
qstat: invalid option -- t
qstat: conflicting options.
usage:
qstat [-f] [-1] [-W site_specific] [ job_identifier... | destination... ]
qstat [-a|-i|-r|-e] [-u user] [-n [-1]] [-s] [-G|-M] [-R] [job_id... | destination...]
qstat -Q [-f [-1]] [-W site_specific] [ destination... ]
qstat -q [-G|-M] [ destination... ]
qstat -B [-f [-1]] [-W site_specific] [ server_name... ]

Here the result of "aptitude show qstat" :
Paquet : qstat
État: installé
Automatiquement installé: oui
Version : 2.11-1
Priorité : optionnel
Section : universe/games
Responsable : Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Taille décompressée : 467k
Dépend: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
Est en conflit: xqf (< 0.9.2-1)
Description : Outil en ligne de commande d'interrogation des serveurs quake (et autres)
 Qstat fournit une interface simple pour interroger des serveurs pour certains
 jeux, incluant entre autre quake, quakeworld, quake2, quake3arena, unreal
 tournament ou half-life.

I use Hardy.

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This question was originally filed as bug #251668.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said :
#1

Hi,

I'm transforming this into a question since there is no bug.
Your problem is that you are not using the right command, the qstat package contains the quakestat binary.
To use it from the command line just type quakestat.
Quoting from the associated documentation (
/usr/share/doc/qstat/README.Debian):

The `qstat' binary is called `quakestat' on Debian systems. This is because
the POSIX queuing system specifies a different program called `qstat'. This
local change was made with the blessing of Steve Jankowski, the author of
qstat. Sorry for the inconvenience it causes.

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melsophos (spam-inscription) said :
#2

Ok, thanks for this answer.
But when I compiled qstat from the source, the options concerning Enemy Territory (woets and another) were missing...

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said :
#3

This has nothing to do with your original question. If that is solved than please mark it so.
If you feel you have other questions about this package, feel free to make them as separate question. Thanks.

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melsophos (spam-inscription) said :
#4

Thanks Cesare Tirabassi, that solved my question.