On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:07:38AM +0300, Adrian Victor Crisciu wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Slackware Linux and need to install a rpm package -- there are > no tar.gz or tgz packages out there for the application I need. > > The problem is that running > rpm -i --test <file> > produces a long list of "failed dependencies" concerning basic software > packages that are (of course!) installed and running on my computer. Yes but your rpmdb knows nothing about them. On this sort of case you may want to look at --nodeps. There are various ways to autopopulate an rpmdb based on an installed system - see vpkg_provides.sh and vpkg_provides2.sh in /usr/lib/rpm What may be more appropriate in this case is to look at > Also, trying to convert the rpm package into a tgz package with rpm2tgz > produces a nearly empty (142 k) file from a very big (>3MB) rpm package. Try rpm2cpio - or if you don't have that installed there is a shell script here: http://rpm.org/tools/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh Note both the tool and the script dump to stdout so you want to either: rpm2cpio foo.rpm > foo.cpio rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -ivd Probably best you don't extract in / There is also alien http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ which may help. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
