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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Install the RPM's or create a PKGBUILD?

Hello,
I need some assistance installing two RPM files. They come from http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/ … ndSoftware, file titled: CAPT Printer Driver for Linux Version 2.60. I need the ones for 32-bit architecture. I want to try installing them without making a PKGBUILD file, or requesting for one, is this possible?

Also, I did run rpmextract.sh on them and it output a couple of folders with a bunch of files inside; I looked through these folders and wasn't sure about what exactly to do with them.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Install the RPM's or create a PKGBUILD?

First, why would you use the RPM when the source is there as well?  Second, why would you want to build this without a PKGBUILD, that is a bad idea.  Third, why not use the PKGBUILD for this that is already in the AUR?

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