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


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