slackware-current: rpm2tgz screwing up

carboncopy · 04-17-2006, 02:43 AM

I am trying to rpm2tgz openoffice rpm-balls. The packages generated by rpm2tgz is all within the range of 150kbyte. Installpkg fine accept that it installs nothing. Anyway for me to find out what's wrong?

gnashley · 04-17-2006, 03:51 AM

Make sure you have rpm2cpio and cpio installed. Or try the program called 'disrpm' instead. It uses hexdump. Then use makepkg to create a package, but be sure to create and include a valid slack-desc file -otherwise pkgtool and removepkg will not be able to uninstall the package correctly.

willysr · 04-17-2006, 04:24 AM

don't forget to remove the previous version before you try to install the new version. I use rpm2tgz and it worked fine for me

carboncopy · 04-17-2006, 09:16 PM

Thanks. CPIO wasn't installed. That was the problem.