ok. i just recently got my computer put together, so this is a brand new slackware 10 install. im running kde 3.2.3. the only things that i have installed so far are azureus, gaim, mplayer, and firefox. i just downloaded a cedega slackware package (.tgz). when i try to install it under root with installpkg or pkgtool, it tells me this: "/sbin/ldconfig: Cannot lstat /usr/lib/libstunnel.so: Permission denied". mplayer did the same thing when i tried to install it with installpkg. i ended up installing it from source. also, i have checkinstall, and using check install as the final command did not work, but thats a different issue. so any help getting cedega installed would be nice.

Only help I might be is the command is not check install, it is checkinstall or
mingdao@paul:~$ su -c "checkinstall"

I think the other problem is your libraries aren't updated, so just issue "ldconfig" as root

*IGNORE THIS IM DUMB*

well, when i try to do ldconfig as root, i get the same problem.

root@slackbox:~$ ldconfig
ldconfig: Cannot lstat /usr/lib/libstunnel.so: Permission denied

checkinstall also did not install the package. im going to try downloading another copy of cedega.

*IGNORE THIS IM DUMB*

First, if you copied that command, then you did not issue
it as root. the $ signifies a normal user. But your posted command
is a contradiction. Look at this ->

root@paul:/home/mingdao# exit
exit
mingdao@paul:~$

See the difference? The comp is named paul, my normal user is
mingdao. Your prompt is for normal user with username root. ???

wow. nevermind, i got it too work. it involves me being a newb to linux.

Hey, this is a community, you know. ;-) Nobody gets paid to answer our
questions, and nobody gets paid (practically) to even write the kernel or
any of the programs. Just a bunch of happy hackers who hate M$.

So, could you please post what you did that solved your problem? And
it's okay that you're a newb - we all are, it's just that some have gotten the
snot beat out of them using Linux for years so they won't admit it.

If some guy got Linux figured out, he'd make installers like M$ and make
some big $$$ because everything would install and work easier. ;-)

well, i figured out that the problem is not with installpkg, its with ldconfig. but i did figure out that i could install cedega just by cd to / and doing tar -xvzf /home/nick/cedega.tgz. so i got that working, now i can play warcraft 3 again im still not sure about the ldconfig problem though, even when im root i cant do anything to it. (this time im sure that im root)

I hate to burst your bubble, but you need to know this for future reference.
Untarring a .tgz file does not install the app in your system. I have no
idea what you've done, but that didn't install it.

In Slackware, you have what is known as Slack packages. If you will issue
"ls -alc /var/log/packages | less" you can page down and page up and read
the names of them all. To properly use installpkg you can put the Slack pack
in that directory and as root issue "installpkg <packagename.tgz>" and that
will do everything you need to install the package on your Slack system.

But Slack's installpkg does not check for dependencies, so there could be
something that won't allow it to run properly.

Just a little info you might find useful in the days ahead. Start by issuing
"man pkgtool" and read that short manual page. At the end of it there's
a line that says "SEE ALSO" with about 5 more manual pages listed. You
should issue "man <each_name> and read them, too.

ok, when i su into root, and type in " ldconfig " this is exactly what it tells me.

root@slackbox:/home/nick# ldconfig
ldconfig: Cannot lstat /usr/lib/libstunnel.so: Permission denied
root@slackbox:/home/nick#

i tried to find the permissions on this file but to no avail.

root@craphole:/usr/lib# ls -l libstunnel.so
ls: libstunnel.so: Permission denied
root@craphole:/usr/lib#

so right now i don't know what to do. i looked around to see what ldconfig did, and it seems to be very very important. maybe the problem is just with libstunnel.so. i searched around and it seems to be part of stunnel which is a socket wrapper which can give ordinary apps ssl support. stunnel doesnt appear to be installed on my system, so i guess i just have the libs for it or something.

edit. ok, so cedega isnt installed, but after untarring it into "/" i can run it to play SkiFree.exe?
edit2: i did the command "ls -alc /var/log/packages | less" and it shows cedega_4.0.1-1.i386

Chinaman, i thank you heartily for all of your help so far. i just though i should tell you that.

Why do you have one machine name as slackbox and one as craphole?
Did you change it because you are frustrated, or are these 2 machines?

mingdao@paul:~$ ls -alc /usr/lib/ | less
<snip, snip>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 760 2004-09-02 03:08 libstunnel.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3780 2004-09-02 03:08 libstunnel.so*

mingdao@paul:~$ cd /usr/lib
mingdao@paul:/usr/lib$ ls -l libstunnel.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3780 2004-03-30 13:00 libstunnel.so*

mingdao@paul:/usr/lib$ su
Password:
root@paul:/usr/lib# ls -l libstunnel.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3780 2004-03-30 13:00 libstunnel.so

So on this system I can see the file as normal user or root.

The stunnel package is installed on the Slack system by default,
unless you leave out those particular packages. It's located on
the first Slack CD in the network pacakges, which is in the
/slackware/n/ directory. Try reinstalling the stunnel package. If
it's located in /var/log/packages on your system, su to root and
go there and issue "installpkg stunnel-4.05-i486-1.tgz" and if it's
not there, mount your Slack-10.0 CD1 and use installpkg to install
it from there.

You got something wrong there, but it's totally beyond my level of
Slack expertice. Read in my sig what Tinkster said...

its one machine, and craphole is it's name now and forever more. (if my linux box which is my only computer now is named craphole, imagine what my windows one would be named. there just arent enough swear words for it...)

the stunnel package is on my system, im gonna try to reinstall it now

edit- ive reinstalled the stunnel package from my slackware 10 cd using pkgtool. now i can run stunnel, but libstunnel.so is still funky. im done working on this problem today, ill be back tomorrow.

well, long story short, i figured out that the reason that file was messed up was because my hard drive was going down. the hard drive is now completely dead . basically, this is why libstunnel.so was messing up, and why kde was giving me some short freezes

Sorry to hear that. Hope you had any important data
backed up.