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In a previous message, DB Troll wrote:
Is there a rpm-build package available for SuSE.
IIUC, it's checkinstall - run ./configure, make and then checkinstall to create (and install) an rpm from the source files. HTH John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 11:07 pm, DB Troll wrote:
Is there a rpm-build package available for SuSE.
In SuSE, the rpm RPM installs all of rpm. 'rpm -ba' will work fine. Red Hat's insistence on constantly splitting packages is highly annoying. I expect that by RHL 9.0, each file will be in it's own rpm. For those lucky souls that don't know, Red Hat split their rpm install into 5 different packages in recent distributions. One of them was 'rpm-build' which is required for 'rpm -ba' to work. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+AIBj+FOexA3koIgRAk2NAJ44bhYq+j81J0n545Et1dDVV+Kd1gCfYl2+ OwPDypI2kuXObVuQ//wxTxU= =oErc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Oakley wrote: | On Tuesday 17 December 2002 11:07 pm, DB Troll wrote: | | Is there a rpm-build package available for SuSE. | | | In SuSE, the rpm RPM installs all of rpm. 'rpm -ba' will work fine. | | Red Hat's insistence on constantly splitting packages is highly annoying. I | expect that by RHL 9.0, each file will be in it's own rpm. | | For those lucky souls that don't know, Red Hat split their rpm install into 5 | different packages in recent distributions. One of them was 'rpm-build' which | is required for 'rpm -ba' to work. Hello; Thanks to you who have replied to this msg. What I am trying to do is load msttcorefonts from corefonts.sourceforge, I have tried rpm -bb and rpm -ba but the only thing I end up with is a directory in /usr/src/packages/BUILD. I guess what I need to know is how to get this to load so that I have use of the fonts. David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+ALVbJT2d2m/D74MRAkpYAKCzgOP6LRtGi1KIw6T1dpWvNEaJSgCgs4yj 1ug2u6WpOqIK+l/WBW4i4SQ= =0uFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
* DB Troll;
Hello; Thanks to you who have replied to this msg. What I am trying to do is load msttcorefonts from corefonts.sourceforge, I have tried rpm -bb and rpm -ba but the only thing I end up with is a directory in /usr/src/packages/BUILD. I guess what I need to know is how to get this to load so that I have use of the fonts. David
does it the script http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html solve your needs ? -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 12:26 pm, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Thanks to you who have replied to this msg. What I am trying to do is load msttcorefonts from corefonts.sourceforge, I have tried rpm -bb and rpm -ba but the only thing I end up with is a directory in /usr/src/packages/BUILD. I guess what I need to know is how to get this to load so that I have use of the fonts. David
does it the script http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html solve your needs ?
David, try the following and see if it makes your life a little easier. Let me know how it goes. For the unwashed newbies, like myself: I wrestled through this problem a couple of days ago by making a bunch of misteps/mistakes. So here are the right steps to take. This is for non command line junkies. Overview You will download and install the cabextract and ttmkfdir apps., then create a script file to download, extract and install the TrueType fonts. The script file will not be executable until the permissions are set correctly. When set, the script will be executed from a terminal window or shell window or whatever you wish to call it. As the script is executed it will ask you to answer some questions. After they are answered it will download and install the fonts. The steps are: 1. Download and install cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm . I found it at rpmfind by doing a google on cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm. 2. Make sure cabextract went into a directory in your path, e.g., /usr/bin 2a. Make sure ttmkfdir from the SuSE Distro has been installed. 3. Open kwrite or any other editor and save-as something, I used ttfontdnld and put it in my home directory. you can put it in /usr/bin or any other directory in your path if you want to be able to run it from anywhere. 4. Then go to http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html and copy the modified script in Paragraph 1. Only copy the text beginning with #!/bin/sh through /sbin/SuSEconfig --module fonts. 5. Paste that text into the file created in 3 above. 6. Save 7. Using Konqeror, right click on the file created in 3. go to properties and change permissions to enable Exec. Now bash will be able to execute that script. 8. Open a bash shell & go to superuser mode, type su and then your root password. 9. If you did not save the file created in step 3 to a directory in your path, cd to wherever you saved the file and type the name of that file. If it is in your path then simply type its name and hit enter. 10. Answer the questions. 11. When done you can either follow the steps in paragraph 2 in http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html.or simply open OpenOffice.org and see if they are there. I was lucky. On the Eleventeenth try the script worked putting the files where they belonged and that's all I had to do to get them working with OpenOffice.org. If, during the running of the script, you see the message : Extracting . . . failed . . . deleted. that means you probably dont have cabextract installed in a directory in your path. If you have any questions, email the message list so everyone else can see how bad my instructions are. I will try to clarify. Richard
Op donderdag 19 december 2002 10:13, schreef Richard:
1. Download and install cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm . I found it at rpmfind by doing a google on cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm.
You can find a susefied cabextract rpm in: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/RPMS.suser-tcousin/ -- Richard
On Thursday 19 December 2002 1:53 pm, Richard Bos wrote:
You can find a susefied cabextract rpm in: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.1-i386/RPMS.suser-tcousin/
Thanks again Richard, I added that to my little thing and sent it to my brother who is just starting out with linux. He's my guinnea pig on these things. If he can follow the instructions, anyone can. The question now is does it have any value to new linux users? i wonder if it has any value to Togan's faq. He and anyone else is welcome to distribute it freely. Maybe I should send it to the OO folks, too. I'll wait a few days and see if I get any feedback. Thanks again for helping. RA
Richard wrote:
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 12:26 pm, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Thanks to you who have replied to this msg. What I am trying to do is load msttcorefonts from corefonts.sourceforge, I have tried rpm -bb and rpm -ba but the only thing I end up with is a directory in /usr/src/packages/BUILD. I guess what I need to know is how to get this to load so that I have use of the fonts. David
does it the script http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html solve your needs ?
David, try the following and see if it makes your life a little easier. Let me know how it goes.
For the unwashed newbies, like myself: I wrestled through this problem a couple of days ago by making a bunch of misteps/mistakes. So here are the right steps to take. This is for non command line junkies.
Overview
You will download and install the cabextract and ttmkfdir apps., then create a script file to download, extract and install the TrueType fonts. The script file will not be executable until the permissions are set correctly. When set, the script will be executed from a terminal window or shell window or whatever you wish to call it. As the script is executed it will ask you to answer some questions. After they are answered it will download and install the fonts.
The steps are: 1. Download and install cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm . I found it at rpmfind by doing a google on cabextract-0.6-1.i386.rpm. 2. Make sure cabextract went into a directory in your path, e.g., /usr/bin 2a. Make sure ttmkfdir from the SuSE Distro has been installed. 3. Open kwrite or any other editor and save-as something, I used ttfontdnld and put it in my home directory. you can put it in /usr/bin or any other directory in your path if you want to be able to run it from anywhere. 4. Then go to http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html and copy the modified script in Paragraph 1. Only copy the text beginning with #!/bin/sh through /sbin/SuSEconfig --module fonts. 5. Paste that text into the file created in 3 above. 6. Save 7. Using Konqeror, right click on the file created in 3. go to properties and change permissions to enable Exec. Now bash will be able to execute that script. 8. Open a bash shell & go to superuser mode, type su and then your root password. 9. If you did not save the file created in step 3 to a directory in your path, cd to wherever you saved the file and type the name of that file. If it is in your path then simply type its name and hit enter. 10. Answer the questions. 11. When done you can either follow the steps in paragraph 2 in http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/generalx.html.or simply open OpenOffice.org and see if they are there. I was lucky. On the Eleventeenth try the script worked putting the files where they belonged and that's all I had to do to get them working with OpenOffice.org.
If, during the running of the script, you see the message : Extracting . . . failed . . . deleted. that means you probably dont have cabextract installed in a directory in your path.
If you have any questions, email the message list so everyone else can see how bad my instructions are. I will try to clarify. Richard
Thanks Richard, I think your instructions are fine. I followed them on one machine and they worked great. I followed Toguns generalx on another machine to get the ttf to ttf file and then used spadmin in OO to load them, this also worked fine after I changed out some memory. The memory change was due to segmentation faults which someone else pointed out as the probable cause. Both ways work but yours is shorter and I believe quicker. Thanks again David
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DB Troll
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James Oakley
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John Pettigrew
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Richard
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Richard Bos
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Togan Muftuoglu