Alex Janssen wrote: > Jonathan Hudson wrote: > >> Let me guess; you ran alien on the RPM in /tmp and alien evily changed >> the permission of /tmp? >> >> That's bitten me and I alway now run alien in a sub-directory of /tmp. >> >> > I didn't know I was running "alien"! What's that? But, yes I did > untar into tmp, but I cd'd into a subdir called RPMS before executing > "rpm -i ...". I expected there to be a subdirectory with the tar > contents in it, but there was none. I'll check from now on, though. > Man, I'm glad I got that fixed so easily, though! I was worried for a > while, being a relative novice. > > Alex
You're right; it must be rpm that does the damage (as I run that on my Gentoo box to install OO.o 1.9.x), not alien. And it did the same to me a month or two ago; took a while to work out what caused the collateral. -jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
