[TriLUG] Help with AbiWord (weird install error)

[Daniel T. Chen]

http://www.abiword.org/mailinglists/abiword-user/01/June/0099.html

That reply seems to point to RPM (or cpio). Are there updated versions
available for your RH version?

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Matt Matthews wrote:

> In an effort to make the Linux box here at home as useful as possible to my
> wife, I'm trying to keep an updated AbiWord installed. However, the 0.9
> release is giving me fits, and it's not even a problem with trying to run
> it...just build and install it!
> 
> Here's the problem:
> 
> [root at shabadoo jvmatthe]# rpm --rebuild /home/jvmatthe/abiword-0.9.0-1.src.rpm
>       --- snip long compile ---
> [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
> 
> What you can't see is that the hashes on the line starting "1:abiword"
> actually go almost all the way to 100% before this error pops up and seemingly
> ruins the whole thing.
> 
> Anyone that can help me figure out what's wrong?
> 
> Here are my current versions of rpm and cpio:
> rpm-4.0.3-0.88
> cpio-2.4.2-20