[TriLUG] quasar accounting software

[Jason Tower]

it probably is some sort of minor problem with the spec file (apparently the 
package installs fine on rh72 and 73, just not 8).  but my main question is 
why does it install properly using the GUI tool and not with 'rpm -ivh' ?  99 
times out of 100 it's the GUI frontend that fails while the CLI equivalent 
works.  i'm not sufficiently curious to spend hours researching this issue, i 
just hoped that someone knew the answer from previous experience.

jason

On Saturday 08 February 2003 14:14, sholton wrote:
> >i'm trying to install a piece of software called quasar (accounting
> > software, see http://www.linuxcanada.com) which is available via rpm.  i
> > get the following on my rh8 workstation:
> >
> >[root at lister root]# rpm -ivh quasar-1.2-3.i386.rpm
> >Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> >1:quasar ########################################### [100%]
> >/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.20252: line 12: cd: /setup: No such file or directory
> >/bin/cp: cannot stat `quasar.xpm': No such file or directory
> >/bin/cp: cannot stat `quasar.initd': No such file or directory
> >error reading information on service quasard: No such file or directory
> >/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.20252: line 73: /etc/rc.d/init.d/quasard: No such file or
> >directory
>
> This looks like a problem in the SPEC file.  Is there a source
> RPM available?
>
> you might try creating a directory at /setup and see if that helps,
> but without knowing what the install scripts are trying to
> accomplish, theres no way to know.
>
> (Well, I suppose you could SIG SUP mid install and take a
> look at /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.20252: line 73: