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leo2501

Member

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

[SOLVED] gotmail. cant install package

Hi i want to download my hotmail mails to close that account, but find myself unable to install gotmail, any ideas?

Thanks!

[aleyscha@aleyscha ~]$ yaourt -S gotmail

==>  Continue the building of 'gotmail'? [Y/n] 
==>   ----------------------------------------------
==>


==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: gotmail 0.9.0-2  (Fri Jan 25 08:38:31 PST 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Found gotmail-0.9.0.tar.bz2 in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    gotmail-0.9.0.tar.bz2 ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> bsdtar -x -f gotmail-0.9.0.tar.bz2
gotmail-0.9.0/COPYING: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/COPYING': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/Makefile: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/Makefile': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/VERSION: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/VERSION': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail.spec: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail.spec': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail.1.gz: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail.1.gz': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail.man: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail.man': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/ChangeLog: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/ChangeLog': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/README: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/README': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/sample.gotmailrc: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/sample.gotmailrc': Permission denied
gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail4evolution: Can't create 'gotmail-0.9.0/gotmail4evolution': Permission denied
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
==> ERROR: Failed to extract gotmail-0.9.0.tar.bz2
    Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build gotmail package.

Last edited by leo2501 (2008-01-25 22:59:44)

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pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: [SOLVED] gotmail. cant install package

check the permissions of the build directory

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: [SOLVED] gotmail. cant install package

i didnt know there were still people using hotmail in 2007, let alone linux users

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leo2501

Member

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: [SOLVED] gotmail. cant install package

solved!! i download GetLive and is retrieving all my messages! what a wonderful script here it is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/getlive/

Now i can close that damn account

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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dolby

Member

From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: [SOLVED] gotmail. cant install package

nice, and by the way its 2008 now. happy new year

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There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums.  That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)