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Title: Thunderbird On Cacako 1.22(c700)
Post by: luka on March 16, 2005, 09:21:04 am
I have downloaded the ipk but every time i try to install installer pops up :
"something went wrong".
how do i manually install it?

zhx!
Title: Thunderbird On Cacako 1.22(c700)
Post by: Stubear on March 16, 2005, 11:03:43 am
go to the console and type
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ipkg install /path/to/ipk/package_name.ipk
You'll also get a lot more feedback about what went wrong than qinstall gives

Stu
Title: Thunderbird On Cacako 1.22(c700)
Post by: luka on March 16, 2005, 01:42:41 pm
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go to the console and type
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ipkg install /path/to/ipk/package_name.ipk
You'll also get a lot more feedback about what went wrong than qinstall gives

Stu
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it freezes for about 5 minutes and drops  :
"Tar: Bad tar header, skipping"  - about 1000 times
was the pacage corrup during donwload or?
Title: Thunderbird On Cacako 1.22(c700)
Post by: ev1l on March 16, 2005, 04:38:46 pm
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was the pacage corrup during donwload or?
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corrupt package is always a possibility. I've had some several times when testing KDEPIM. Download it again and retry.
Title: Thunderbird On Cacako 1.22(c700)
Post by: Stubear on March 16, 2005, 08:48:55 pm
You can also test the "corruption" of an ipk by trying to read/open it directly with tar.

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tar tzf package.ipkShould return 3 files
./control.tar.gz
./data.tar.gz
./debian-binary

If that fails then most probably have picked up a corruption during download OR you have a ar compressed ipk. use "file" to find out what type of ipk you have, for Sharp compatible ipk you should get "gzip compressed data" or something indicating it has been gzipped. If it says something about "debian" or "ar compressed" then you have the wrong kind of ipk and will need to convert it.

The other option (and one that happens a lot when I'm forced to use IE) is that the browser gunzipped the ipk for you during download (this will show as "tar" with "file")

Stu