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Re: [LI] Slackware and RPM

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Subject: Re: [LI] Slackware and RPM
From: "Y.V.Deval" <deval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 07:09:29 +0900
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Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to extract packages.
> Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives. How do I extract
> this source?

Please refer to /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/RPM+Slackware-README1st.
Volkerding recommends converting RPM  to tgz using rpm2tgz. This command
is available Slackware. It takes a few seconds to do the job. Then
install the tarball with installpkg or pkgtool.
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