On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:55:55PM +0200, Clayton wrote: > > I'm not sure, but i thought that gzip can handle compressed files.... > > > Yes gzip can handle it, but that doesn't solve my core problem. I work > at a software company and we make software that runs on Linux as well as > pretty much all other flavours of Linux. We use compress/uncompress to > extract and install the software - the call to uncompress is part of the > install shell script. Problem is, gziup isn't available on all Unix > platforms - whereas compress is. > > I installed SUSE 10.0 on Friday... today I try a test install of our > software, and.. it fails because uncompress isn't there. Like I said, I > can hack the installer to use zcat (gzip) and it all works... but that's > a single instance hack... and doesn't help anyone else who might try to > install on SUSE 10. > > So... that still leaves me with the question... what happened to that > old fashioned compress/uncompress app? I'm wondering if I missed it in > the installer... or if it was dropped.
It had patent problems as Unisys was still owning the LZW patent. I think it the patent expired now. For SLES 9 we include "ncompress" now which contains compress/uncompress. If you just need uncompress you really can just provide a symlink. If you need the original compress you have to find the ncompress package. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
