On 10/02/2010 06:10 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote:
On 10/2/2010 7:41 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
It works on all the major distros but fails to install
on Arch due to an RPM dependency. Their install script just fails saying
it can't find rpm. The script contains much ugliness and is McAfee
proprietary, so I doubt hacking it will be productive.
So the question is: can Arch be configured/tricked into an rpm install?
Does their installer actually require use rpm to install, or just wants rpm to be
there? Most distros allow you to install rpm, Arch is no different except it is in
aur:
aur/rpm 5.2.1-1 (153)
The RedHat Package Manager. Don't use it instead of Arch's 'pacman'.
If it actually uses rpm for the process, this is probably not the solution. Two
package managers at once is not a good thing.
I spent some time last night pulling the .sh file apart. It's a script that unzips a
binary that unpacks two rpm files (9-MB), one 32-bit ELF program (8.9-MB), two
cryptographic keys and an xml file. The script then calls rpm to install the two rpm
files, which contain tons of 32-bit system libraries. These libraries have the same
names as regular system libs, like libc, libm, libresolv and libcrypt. This all
makes me very nervous! Arch not using rpm may be a blessing in disguise, I'm going
to see if I can get a waiver to not install this McAfee root-kit.
Thanks for the help,
Lew
