Installing *rpm on Slackware Linux ? ? ?

caovankhanhvn · 07-20-2004, 07:24 AM

I user Slackware , when I download VMware ( a rpm pakage : VMWareworkstation4-5.rpm ) but I can install it because Slackware don't use RPM .
I read some document and found that installing *rpm in the way like this :

rpm2tgz packagename.rpm
tar xvzf packagename.tar.gz"
installpkg packagename.tgz

I applied it to my VMWare but there still error that can not install it because some permition was denie ( The error was too long so I can not post it here ) .
How can I do ?

larrykeenan · 07-20-2004, 08:50 AM

Wow I just answered a similar question:

To extract entire archive:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
rpm2cpio rpmfile | cpio -i

When compiling, ignor the errors and apply the upgrade as stated on their site.

Have Fun,
Larry

oot · 07-20-2004, 09:12 AM

Slackware comes with an rpm program... the trick is getting it to ignore the dependencies (since most software isn't installed as rpms, rpm will report a lot of dependency errors).

A few things to try (probably in order... the first option is the cleanest):
rpm -ivh --nodeps <package.rpm>
rpm -ivh --force <package.rpm>
rpm -ivh --nodeps --force <package.rpm>

Remember, rpm must be run as root.

darklordzim · 08-22-2004, 11:04 PM

i'm trying this stuff with Vmware, and none of the two suggestions are working, the cpio one gave a whole hell of alot of "no such file or directory" and the rpm ones end up with a "scriplet faile exit status 1"

any other suggestions?

jev-bird · 08-23-2004, 12:58 AM

Don't bother with rpm and vmware on Slackware. Grab the tarball from vmware's site and follow this guide or else vmware won't work on your slackware box. It's because vmware expects you to have diffrent startup scripts to be able to install so you have to trick into thinking you have them by creating fake Sys V style scripts etc.

It's real simple to do and won't take long. I don't think vmware has solve that problem yet so here is the link. http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jbyrne/vmware.htm