Re: StarOffice 5.1 RPM

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Graham Spearing wrote:

> I've tried to install the Staroffice 5.1 RPM from the latest PC+ CD. I get
> the following error message:
> unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic

Bad magic refers to the magic number, a checksum of sorts. It's cpio
saying, This archive is invalid. What the hell cpio is doing with an
RPM, I don't know. Now, I *know* the archive *is* valid, because I
installed SO5.1 off the PC+ Dec. CD just two hours ago, and it works ;))
So, you've either got a dodgy CD, dodgy CD drive or a dodgy setup.

You say you tried the command line? You tried rpm -i [rpmfile] ? That's
what I did, and it worked for me.

You could try copying it to the harddrive first, to make sure it's not a
cd read error.

Cheers,

Alex.

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