Thank you for the suggestion. I tried opening it with ark (which checks about 15 archive types including 7zip) but it failed.
2011/2/9 Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> > Michael Schubert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I am already maintaining a couple of PKGBUILDs and wanted to add one > for CellDesigner, which is used to model biochemical pathways. The download > is only available as binary package with its own installer. Now, I thought > that I could use the installer inside a PKGBUILD with $pkgdir as root. > However, the installer cross-references some files in others with absolute > paths, i.e. when the package is installed it still links to the build dir > instead of the system dir. Because of the way the cross-refs are inserted, > simple sed'ing these does not work. The obvious solution would be to use > fakeroot/chroot in the $pkgdir and use to to emulate a root directory > structure. My question now is: (1) am I on the right track and (2) is there > any standard way to do this in PKGBUILDs? I couldn't find any sample > PKGBUILDs concerning this issue and the ArchWiki contains no information > either. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Michael > > > You often can extract the archive portion of a binary installer using 7zip. > Try that first. >
