[Gllug] Problems installing strange things

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Thu Jul 12 09:31:03 UTC 2001


>The problem is it's extensions are rpm.bin and I'm at a loss on here as
>to how to install it.

Almost certainly, just:

	rpm -Uvh file.rpm.bin

The .bin is added by some download sites to work around buggy browsers
or FTP clients that try and use ASCII mode to download things. If you
want, you can rename it to just file.rpm before installing it, but it
shouldn't matter if you don't.

Tet

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