rpm2tgz question.

trn · 03-01-2003, 11:44 PM

for the past few days i have been trying to get my radeon 8500 to work with slackware. I had slackware installed before and i was able to rpm2tgz and then install from there no problem, but now when i rpm2tgz it turns a 4 meg rpm in to a 137k tgz with no files in it this doesn't seem quite right and probably the reason that i've had no luck installing the drivers, does anyone have any thoughts on how i might be able to fix this?

trickykid · 03-02-2003, 12:51 AM

Slack 8.1 comes with RPM installed usually nowadays. If you installed a full install of Slack, why not try installing the rpm with rpm ? Not sure why rpm2targz would be returning it with no files, have you tested with another rpm file to see if the same thing occurs ?

trn · 03-02-2003, 01:04 PM

hmm i tried using rpm but it just says i need 19 dependencies, every dependencie that the package needs. I have these files so rpm is not working. I'm not sure what is broken, i'll have to go find some more rpm files to test it out on.

trn · 03-02-2003, 01:10 PM

hmmm after some quick testing it seems that rpm2tgz turns any .rpm in to an empty .tgz somthing is defently not right here but i'm not getting any error messages at all.

DaOne · 03-02-2003, 04:47 PM

The ATI RPMs for the Radeon drivers are terrible. The only way I could get my drivers installed, was to use rpm2tgz. I have no clue why this won't work for you. I never had a problem using it.

trn · 03-02-2003, 06:38 PM

yeah, i'm clueless too, i'm not getting any error messages to help me out either. And what really stumps me is last time i had slackware 8.1 installed just a few weeks ago it worked flawlessly.

moses · 03-03-2003, 02:04 PM

It sounds like you have a bad installation of rpm2tgz, or one of the programs
it requires. You might try looking at the rpm2tgz script, and make sure you
have everthing it calls. Do you have "cpio" installed, for example.