[TriLUG] Help with AbiWord (weird install error)

Benjamin Reed ranger at befunk.com
Sun Aug 12 14:35:41 EDT 2001


> [root at shabadoo jvmatthe]# rpm -Uhv
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/abiword-0.9.0-1.i38
> 6.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
>    1:abiword                error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /usr/bin/
> abiword;3b76c60f: cpio: link failed - Invalid cross-device link

It sounds like the RPM contains a hard link to a file that's on a separate
partition on your computer.  Not sure what you can do with it, except maybe
to try rebuilding from the source RPM and see if it works a little
better...?




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