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To print at school I need to install client,
Fortunately it supports linux but its in rpm format.
I used rpmextract guess what: extract the rpm.
Now, I get these 3 folders: opt usr var etc
which contain several things, I imagine I need to copy them to
their respective locations, but I think its dangerous to just copy the folders.
It doesn't contain any build scripts or anything.
I have experience making simple PKGBUILDS, but have no idea if
I'm just to put in the PKGBUILD cp $startdir/opt /
(to copy the folders to "/")
Now this is important, I don't want to reinstall Arch because of messed up etc and usr folders. But I'd like to print from my lap at school...
Thanks in advance, you don't need to make a horribly long explanation,
if there is documentation just point it out, and I'll give it a shot. (I googled for about an 1 hour and found only rpmextract)
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I have experience making simple PKGBUILDS, but have no idea if
I'm just to put in the PKGBUILD cp $startdir/opt /
(to copy the folders to "/")
Use the Arch Wiki to read about PKGBUILD and makepkg basics. Copying directly to / in the PKGBUILD will fail (unless you run makepkg as root, which is even worse) and defeats the purpose of using PKGBUILDs. For rpms/debs, basically you just extract with rpmextract/deb2targz and then copy stuff from $srcdir/blah to $pkgdir/blah.
Last edited by tdy (2009-04-02 03:05:59)
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But I think that come out of the rpmextract
are to be copied to their respective directories.
Its like sort of daemon because <<< it doesn't generate any binaries >>>
Its not a program, its a something that connects to
CUPS, so that it gives you the ability to connect to a Novell print server.
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