Hi all, ive tried about 5 separate .tgz packages and i get the same error every time:

That one is from cabextract as you can see. Can someone please shed some light on this im starting to regret upgrading to kde 3.5.

Any help at all appreciated.

I confess. You have me confused, Dave. I had the impression that cabextract is a tool to extract microsoft .cab files on Unix-compatible systems. A .tgz file is not a .cab file. Getting an error message should come as no suprise.

.tgz is the Slackware package extension; however, not all .tgz files are SlackPacks. Some are just compressed tarballs (some utilities allow what extension to specify in the filename when making the compressed tarball).

Did you get the packages from a SlackWare repository, or some site that stated they are SlackWare packages?

Try the Slack package management tool, whatever that is.

The only other possibility that comes to mind it that libFLAC might be corrupt, and you need to re-install libFLAC.

i got the flac .tgz off the 1st slackware cd and when trying to install it i get that same error above. I got the cabextract from a slack repository you are right, needed to get that working to install some core fonts for firefox, on a few sites the fonts look really nasty. Keep on getting that damn error tho Things seem flakey since i upgraded to kde 3.5.

Any ideas?

Since it came off the Slackware CD, did you use `installpkg flac.x.tgz` to install the flac stuff?

yep, i used installpkg flac-1.1.2-i486-2.tgz and get the same error