Re: OK, how do I UNinstall programs?

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From: Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:00

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On 27 Apr 1999 02:52:23 -0500, James Lee <leekk@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>In alt.os.linux David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>: Debian GNU/Linux has the 'alien' utility as a normal part of the
>: distribution. It may run someplace else; you could check
>: ftp.debian.org for the source package and see if it will compile,
>: or run Debian...

>OK... I downloaded that and tried to convert a tgz file to a rpm
>while login as root (obviously).
>When run from a Win98 partition, it complains that it cannot
>	"Cannot chown to uid 279 gid 50: Operation not permitted"
>error.
>I don't have anyone with uid 279 here on this RH machine.
>Is uid 279 supposed to be some special guy? 
>ftp is the only one having gid 50.

>I repeated this using the /tmp directory and this time, the error is
>"Bad owner/group".

>So, is Alien assuming something different?

Did you run it as root? I think you have to do that or tell it to ignore
permissions?


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From: moritz@news.uni-mannheim.de (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Subject: Re: OK, how do I  UNinstall programs?
Date: 1999/04/28
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