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Shinryu
08-21-2003, 11:14 AM
okie im trying to get my printer installed lexmark provides the drivers for linux but guess what they be in .rpm flavor...and i dont like that flavor =)
ive done a search for the program and found nothing but a bunch of refrences to it but the trail ends there
so if anybody can help me out that would be great
rpm2targz is a slackware app.
i don't think it depends on rpm.
here are the deps listed in the gentoo ebuild for it:
DEPEND="virtual/glibc
sys-apps/cpio
sys-apps/file"
ph34r
08-21-2003, 11:26 AM
alien will convert package types, but I think you need to have rpm installed so it can extract the original files...
Shinryu
08-21-2003, 11:47 AM
hayl u wouldnt have a link directly to the package would you?
mdwatts
08-21-2003, 12:15 PM
Originally posted by Shinryu
hayl u wouldnt have a link directly to the package would you?
G4L search results for 'rpm2targz' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=rpm2targz&btnG=Google+Search) of which the first two listed are Gentoo.
Darkbolt
08-21-2003, 01:49 PM
could also use rpm2tgz
I wouldnt recommend using these tools, due to the directory stuctures being drifferent, so more often then not they dont work...
Chances are something like cups will have a driver for a lexmark printer
Shinryu
08-21-2003, 01:52 PM
the question is where is the tar.gz file
i checked those results im looking for the package
im new but i dont see any at those locations
Originally posted by Shinryu
hayl u wouldnt have a link directly to the package would you?
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/rpm2targz-9.0.tar.gz