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Article #929Re: It's not a rpm......
From: Joachim Feise
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00
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Adam Short wrote: > > You have an odd version there! All of the versions I have seen have been in > RPM format. There will be .gz versions out there but I would hope that you > could find an RPM version. Not so odd. I downloaded the .gz version as well, right when it came out. The .gz extension indicates a gnuzipped file. It is probably tar'ed as well. You can unzip it with gunzip filename.gz and then use tar tvf filename or in one run with tar xzvf filename. > It could be that there is an RPM lurking under the .gz if so then what you > should do is type "tar -z <filename>". If after this you have an rpm file in > that directory then you can follow my original instructions. If not then I > am afraid I can't help (I am a newbie myself and I only answered your > original question because I have successfully installed wp8 myself). If you > don't find an RPM under the .gz then if your email can handle it I can send > you the RPM file. Or alternatively you can ask the more advanced members of > this newsgroup for help (it might help to use a subject like "FAO gurus" or > something like that). This is probably not an rpm. After unpacking it with tar in a temporary directory you can just run the Runme file with ./Runme -Joe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Joachim Feise Ph.D. Student, Information & Computer Science mailto:jfeise@ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jfeise/ mailto:jfeise@acm.org mailto:jfeise@ecs.com -------------------------------------------------------------------
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