On 05/26/2013 at 07:38 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
On 05/27/13 08:19, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 18, Trying to install a package, nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm and I get
the
following error message, What Gives ??
You have downloaded a poorly packaged application. It is potentially making
changes
to permissions and/or selinux contexts on /, /usr, /opt and other
directories.
I would report this issue to the folks supplying the package.
You could force install it...which may break things.
With such files I have on occasion used...
# cp rpmfile.rpm /tmp
# cd /tmp
# rpm2cpio rpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv
...and then copied the resulting file structure to where it needs to go. But
usually I do that only in a pinch when I really need a package and can find it
in no other format than the improperly packaged rpm file.
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