[Wine] Re: Can not install Wine tools

[Steve Wilson]

Segin wrote:

> Steve Wilson wrote:
>> Daniel Skorka wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Steve Wilson <funmaker_11 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>root at wizard:/home/vince# rpm2tgz winetools-0.9-3joi386.rpm
>>>>/usr/bin/rpm2tgz: line 98: winetools-0.9-3joi386.rpm: No such file or
>>>>directory
>>>>/usr/bin/rpm2tgz: line 99: winetools-0.9-3joi386.rpm: No such file or
>>>>directory
>>>
>>>1) Winetools is generally considered to be a last resort.
>>>2) Why do you need to convert that RPM into a tarball anyway?
>>>3) Failures of programs not related to wine are _not related to wine_.
>>>
>>>Daniel
>> 
>> I was not changing it to a tarball.  If you would actually read the post
>> you would see that the program converts an RPM to a slackware type for
>> kpackager.  However I downloaded a tg file and installed that.  I pefer
>> to use kpackger since it keeps track of the files during install, so If I
>> want to uninstall then kpackger knows exactly which files and where.
>> 
> kpackager is nothing more than a front-end to slackware's package
> installation utilities. And by the way, any tar archive using gzip, old
> 'compresss' format, or bzip2 compression is called a tarball. This
> includes slackware packages.

Ok. I downloaded the tgz file and installed using the install.sh file.