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04-17-2006, 02:43 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Malaysia
Distribution: Fedora Core, Slackware, Mac OS X, Debian, OpenSUSE
Posts: 1,210
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slackware-current: rpm2tgz screwing up
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?
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04-17-2006, 03:51 AM
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Amigo developer
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 4,590
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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.
Last edited by gnashley; 04-17-2006 at 03:52 AM.
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04-17-2006, 04:24 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Jogja, Indonesia
Distribution: Slackware-Current
Posts: 1,853
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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
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04-17-2006, 09:16 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Malaysia
Distribution: Fedora Core, Slackware, Mac OS X, Debian, OpenSUSE
Posts: 1,210
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Thanks. CPIO wasn't installed. That was the problem.  |
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