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Old 11-12-2006, 04:21 PM   #1
gnudylan
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Package installation by extraction


Is it possible to install a Slackware package on any particular GNU/Linux system by simply extracting the archive somehow?

How? Thanks for any useful replies.
 
Old 11-12-2006, 05:14 PM   #2
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If you mean a non-Slackware system, you might be able to 'install' it, but it probably wouldn't work anyway. On a Slackware system, I believe you could untar the package from /, run the /install/doinst.sh (if any) and delete /install, but I've never tried it. You'd be missing a /var/log/packages/$PACKAGE file though, I believe, and couldn't removepkg it. You could create a file list though, and use that to delete the files, I guess. Why would this be necessary, though?
 
Old 11-12-2006, 05:18 PM   #3
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Because I do not have a certain package in my repos. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll post my findings here.

Update: All is working fine. At least, for Firefox 2, anyways. Thanks, digiot!

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