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RPM's...aack!...they's da debil
Brian Reichholf wrote: | On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 01:19, Michael Jinks wrote: | |>Since none (or few) of your dependencies are installed via RPM, RPM |>doesn't know anything about them and will think they're missing. | | | well, apart from this software i'd like to use - nothing has been | installed via RPM (thank heavans ;) | | | |>Given that you're living on a system that doesn't rely on RPM primarily |>for package management, one possibility is to use the --force option, |>effectively telling RPM to STFU and just install the damn package |>already. But since you don't really care about RPM's package management |>facilities -- you just want to copy this software onto your system -- |>I'd probably opt for a different approach. Convert the .rpm(s) to cpio |>archives (rpm2cpio, IIRC); this will allow you to unpack them anywhere |>(say, /usr/local/PACKAGENAME, or wherever) and avoid mucking up your |>main / and /usr. | | | well, the extracting (via mc/rpm2cpio and the like) just worked fine, | though the software isn't really working properly *sigh* | | "back to the drawing board" as they say.... | | -Brian | | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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