I am having some difficulty in getting satisfactory RPM compliance on my
Slackware 3.5. I have installed the rpm executable, as well as cpio, and
rpm2cpio. I routinely use Midnight Commander to manage rpm's and tgz
files. I can view the table of contents of an rpm, but not much else.
I get an error msg from mc regarding not being able to open the desired
file when I try to view or copy it to a directory. I had this working
some time ago on a different slakware installation, but can't seem to get
it working on this machine. Do you remember what steps you had to go
through to get it working?
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Patrick Davalan wrote:
>I agree too , but there is something good with rpm : they provide a
>rpm2targz so you can install packages easily from sources and do not
>have any problem.
>My Slackware works fine and I can install packages from anywhere they
>come from. I also installed RedHat , but I erased the partition , it
>is much easier to install the packages I need from tar..gz . It may
>take one or two more minutes to install , but you don't have to spend
>days to solve some stupid library problem.
>Many people want on their linux system the same they had on Windows ,
>I do think it is pure masochism.
>
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