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#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:41 AM

Has anyone else had any trouble with segmentation faults when trying to
install something via rpm using Slackware-Current. I need to use this to
reinstall Win4Lin after my system crashed over the weekend. I can change
the rpm file to tgz using rpm2tgz but Win4Lin still thinks it is not
installed. I need to know what I need to do to get rpm working again.
This is the only thing I need it for. Everything else I use the
Slackware packages or compile from source.
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#2 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

Kathy Wills wrote:

> Has anyone else had any trouble with segmentation faults when trying to
> install something via rpm using Slackware-Current. I need to use this to
> reinstall Win4Lin after my system crashed over the weekend. I can change
> the rpm file to tgz using rpm2tgz but Win4Lin still thinks it is not
> installed. I need to know what I need to do to get rpm working again.
> This is the only thing I need it for. Everything else I use the
> Slackware packages or compile from source.

That's cause slackware isn't meant to use rpm's very well. It's only a "if
this works, lucky you" thing. You can try converting it to a slackware
package using "rpm2tgz foo.rpm", or you can try to find the source for it.
I feel your pain: yahoo IM only offers rpm's and other packages, not slack
packages or source code, so it's not really available for slackware.

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#3 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:42 AM

NeoSadist wrote:

> That's cause slackware isn't meant to use rpm's very well. It's only a "if
> this works, lucky you" thing. You can try converting it to a slackware
> package using "rpm2tgz foo.rpm", or you can try to find the source for it.
> I feel your pain: yahoo IM only offers rpm's and other packages, not slack
> packages or source code, so it's not really available for slackware.
>

I tried the conversion but Win4Lin would not run after installing as a
tgz package it complained of a missing file. After doing some more
research, I upgraded the rpm package along with the libraries it is
dependent on which are elflibs, bzip2, and popt. After upgrading these
the Win4Lin rpm installed and is running great.

--
Kathy Wills

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++
+ Genealogy Web Site: http://www.kathywillsfamily.com +
+ +
+ Summit Group Web Site: http://www.tsginfo.com/index.php?rc=VW4374 +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++

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