Alberto Hernando wrote: > it. I am talking about closed source software. In this case, I have gizmo > (www.gizmoproject,com) working in my debian partition. As a part of my > transition to LFS, I want to use it too, but there are no suitable packages > for me, and they refuse to provide more packages. I tried to alienize it, but > there are lots of missing libraries. So I was wondering if there is a way to > get a statically linked executable that I can use in LFS.
Download the rpm (either fedora or suse), save rpm2cpio (http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio) and make it executable (chmod +x rpm2cpio), install cpio as per BLFS. copy gizmo-project*.rpm to a working directory and run the following: rpm2cpio gizmo-project*.rpm | cpio -Id (pretty sure that's the right command - been a while) That should create a bunch of subdirectories that resemble your file system (or at least extract a bunch of files you can work with). Just copy all the files you find to the right spot on your system and then delete the extracted folder. Because it's a binary package, you may have to install further dependencies (depending on what it was built against). Once you figure out what it needs and install them, it should work fine. Regards, Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
