VIM (zipped in .rar)

[mschoen]

www.valhallalegends.com/jigsaw/vim-tiny_5.6.070-1.1_all.rar

[rattis]

tried to install it. I get tar: invalid tar magic.
Although looking into it more, its a windows file, so I guess it wouldn't work on my nix boxes.

[mschoen]

I know, Im really sorry, for some reason, my server wouldnt recognize it as just .deb file... wierd huh? So I had to zip it, win rar is all that I had.

[rattis]

I know, Im really sorry, for some reason, my server wouldnt recognize it as just .deb file... wierd huh? So I had to zip it, win rar is all that I had.

It's ok. Only required a reboot. I haven't tried to isntall it yet though. Just got back in to linux.

[rattis]

I'll be interested in hearing if anyone else can get this file to work.
Rebooted to windows, un rar'd with winrar.
copied it to the 770
dpkg -x vim-tiny_5.6.070-1.1_all.deb /
tar: invalid tar magic
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error at exit status 1

Going through the package manager comes back with Unable to install. Incompatiable package.

[mschoen]

..interesting. hm.

[gultig]

I don't quite understand. There is a vim deb listed in the maemo application catalog. What is this one supposed to do that the other one doesn't?

[aflegg]

Be available: my site at bleb.org's down.

[mgedmin]

I extracted the deb and copied it into the RS-MMC card (FWIW there's a Linux version of unrar). I then tried to install it with the application installer, and got the same error message (Unable to install. Incompatible package).

Nevertheless I discovered that /var/lib/install/usr/bin/vim was extracted successfully. I still couldn't run it, even after setting PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables. I had to do this:

cd /var/lib/install/usr/lib
ln -s libgpm.so.1.17.3 libgpm.so.1

and only then I could run vim.

gultig: the vim deb linked from the Maemo wiki is innaccessible right now (the web server suffered some sort of a hardware failure).

[mgedmin]

Now I cannot install any other debs -- the app installer tells me
"Installation of failed.", "Unable to install . Component is built-in."

Could this broken deb have borked up the state of the app installer somehow?

[rattis]

(FWIW there's a Linux version of unrar).
Yeah I know, I use it quite a bit too. I just thought in the intial trials that the program was having problems with it.

Nevertheless I discovered that /var/lib/install/usr/bin/vim was extracted successfully. I still couldn't run it, even after setting PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables. I had to do this:

cd /var/lib/install/usr/lib
ln -s libgpm.so.1.17.3 libgpm.so.1

and only then I could run vim.


I never even thought to check to see if things were installed. Thanks for the help. I feel so like a noob. :)

[rattis]

Now I cannot install any other debs -- the app installer tells me
"Installation of failed.", "Unable to install . Component is built-in."

Could this broken deb have borked up the state of the app installer somehow?

I haven't had any problems. I installed Gaim after vim with the application installer, and it works fine. I did go back and remove all the files (dpkg -c <package name> ) that the application manager put in. I wanted the dpkg -x install for vim.