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Hey there!!!
I would appreciate if anyone could help me
I am trying to install Open Office2.0.4
i have extracted the tar.gz in my home/me/Desktop
When i am in RPMS folder i try to execute the given command i get these errors
BT RPMS # rpm -Uvhi *rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by openoffice.org-core10-2.0.4-5
libgnomevfs-2.so.0 is needed by openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.0.4-5
libgconf-2.so.4 is needed by openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.0.4-5
I guess he/she is using Slackware. Had the same problem. I renamed the rpms that gave the errors to something.rpm.does_not_work and ran the rpm command again.
Have not had problems till now.
You have just about reached the end of my knowledge...I would have assumed that the error message meant that the rpm program--checking for dependencies--could not find /bin/sh. How about permissions--any clues there?
For those who may be able to help further--what is BackTrack?
After a bit of googling, it seems like BackTrack is based on Slax. I think it would be better to get Slackware OOo packages and install them with pkgtools. An alternative would be to use the rpm2tgz command to convert the rpms to Slackware tgz and install the resulting tgz files with pkgtools.
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