On Tuesday 15 June 2004 08:32 am, Mike Zupan wrote: > You can run rpm2tgz > He said that doesn't seem to work. Either he is running the the program wrong or it isn't working. If that doesn't work you can just try rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm --nodeps and just hope things work. They may or may not. > On Monday 14 June 2004 18:07, 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Can anyone help with some advice? > > Adrian. Scot Mc Pherson <scot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sarasota, Florida, USA http://linuxfromscratch.org/~scot/ ICQ: 342949 AIM: ScotLFS MSN: behomet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
