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barc0de 03-07-2004 07:29 PM

Help! Installing software!
 
I am running Mandrake 9,2 for reference. I put in my Maya 5 disk, opened "Maya5_0-5-9-18" which had no extension, but the readme.html says this is the rpm install file, and linux apparantly recongizes it as that as well. I double click it, asks for root password, type that in, then in the program bar it shows software installer being loaded ... well, it never loads, it has the hourglass thing, and then it just dissapears and nothing happens.. How do I get this to install??

Edit: and this is the linux version, not windoze.

gnu noob 03-07-2004 07:48 PM

From a terminal. rpm -i whateverthefilename.rpm.

barc0de 03-07-2004 07:53 PM

I CD'ed to the directory, rpm -i MAYA5_0-5.0-18 ... it skips to the next line and doesn't do anything, no prompt ro anything, aanything I type and press enter it just moves to the next line.

barc0de 03-07-2004 07:55 PM

Minutes later it says "error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/aw/maya5.0: cpio: mkdir failed - no such file or directory

gnu noob 03-07-2004 08:00 PM

did you su? (sorry, have to ask) does the disk have a tarball? you may have a corrupted rpm.

barc0de 03-07-2004 08:02 PM

Not sure what 'su' is. No, I don't see any tar.gz files.


---- but I will be 'su' --- ing the company when my expensive software doesn't work.

barc0de 03-07-2004 08:03 PM

---- or tar files

gnu noob 03-07-2004 08:08 PM

superuser - root access from a user login. sorry, I should have been clearer

barc0de 03-07-2004 08:10 PM

No, it never asked me for a root password. When I was just double clicking the file, as originally, it would ask me for my root pwd. Was I supposed to do some other step before rpm -i ??

gnu noob 03-07-2004 08:22 PM

you need to be superuser before you can install a file.

type su and then your root password where it prompts.


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