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Title: Installing Applixware 4.3.7 on non-RPM systems

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Installing Applixware 4.3.7 on non-RPM systems

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 4.4, 4.4.1, 5.0
Applix: Version 4.3.7

Symptom:

You have purchased the Applixware office package from S.u.S.E. and plan to install it onto your system which doesn't use the RedHat Package Manager (RPM). In order to save space there is only the RPM version on the CD.

Solution:

Basically there are two solutions for this problem:

  1. You can install a S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 base system which is included on your Applixware CD. This is described in detail in the following article of our Support Database : maddin_yast_update.html

  2. You can also convert the RPM packages to the cpio format (with rpm2cpio) and install them directly in your system.
Below we describe the installation with rpm2cpio. Please login as user root. 
cd /
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx1/axbase.rpm | cpio -iduv
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx2/apxgrm.rpm | cpio -iduv
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx3/axlang.rpm | cpio -iduv
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx3/bookgrm.rpm | cpio -iduv
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx3/helpgrm.rpm | cpio -iduv
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx3/axdocu.rpm | cpio -iduv
rpm2cpio /cdrom/suse/aplx3/axart.rpm | cpio -iduv
chown -R bin:bin /opt/applix
find /opt/applix -type d -exec chmod go+rx {} \;
rpm2cpio can be downloaded directly from our FTP server ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse_update/special/rpm2cpio/rpm2cpio.tgz. It is also included on your Applixware CD in the directory suse/inst-sys/usr/bin/rpm2cpio.

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See also:

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Keywords: APPLIXWARE, RPM2CPIO, SLACKWARE, DEBIAN

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Feedback welcome: Send Mail to Rolf.Haberrecker@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-applix_rpm2cpio)

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Impressum - Last generated: 24. Feb 1999 14:43:20 by maddin with sdb_gen 1.00.0