Re: OK, how do I UNinstall programs?

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From: James Lee
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:00

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OK, I found the solution. 

: As FAT partitions don't support owners and permissions, you will find
: that if you try to chown a file on a FAT partition that you get EPERM. 
: I venture that it is just trying to restore the numeric user and group
: ids (and as they're not used on your system, it has no names for them!)
: which the file had before it was packaged.

I had suspected this before. But this is not the real problem.
SInce copying it to Linux's /tmp directory also fails.

: I suspect there may be some working files created in the conversion
: process, and they may be generated in the current directory --try
: running the program in an ext2 partition and see if it helps.


I discovered that the problem is that the tgz files came with owner
279 and group ftp. The former does not exist in my computer. 
So, what I did was to untar it all, and then go into the directories
and change the owner and group to root. Then tar and gzip it up, and
then run alien. It then installs it properly.

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From: James Lee <leekk@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: OK, how do I UNinstall programs?
Date: 1999/04/30
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