On 05/26/2013 at 07:38 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@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. -- Len Philpot l...@philpot.org http://lphilpot.zenfolio.com http://www.mostimportantthing.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
