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Title: "installpkg", "pkgtool", "removepkg"

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"installpkg", "pkgtool", "removepkg"

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 5.3

Request:

You want to install/uninstall a "TGZ" package. However the tools that you've used so far ("installpkg", ...) cannot be found anymore in the system.

Procedure:

The Slackware tools ("installpkg", "removepkg", ...) have security holes ((tmp-exploits). Since "RPM" is the package format of S.u.S.E. Linux since a longer period of time now, it appeared to us that it was not worth the effort to maintain and include these tools into the distrubtion any longer.

Solution:

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See also:

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Keywords: INSTALLATION, INSTALLPKG, PKGTOOL, REMOVEPKG, PACKAGES, TGZ

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Categories: Applications , Package-Installation

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