can't use rpm2cpio to uncompress scim-chinese

ganloo

Its esay-to-config and quite beatiful interface will certainly get my vot, and developer's quick reponse to the community makes it so unique, that's what I do wanna say "THANKS". But things come to another side, I never get scim-chinese to work, I never successed to uncompress scim-chinese rpmpack by rpm2cpio, I am not running any rpm-capable system, I never want install the whole foolish rpm system for unpack a rpm file, so James, could you please just tar your binary application?
I post my humble wish here, and hope someone can help me, thank you in advance.
PS, thank James, 0.9.3 version of scim-table seems have deleted the hard-coded install process that force user to install tables under certain path. i can package scim-table under ArchLinux now without tweak of the PKGBUILD script anymore.

liuspider

so you are one of arch developers, aren't you? ;)

I though ark = arch, but it seems that's not the case.

I just have a look at arch linux official website, I think it is somewhat similar with my favorite distro gentoo.

As to the scim-chinese issue, I am afraid no one other than James can help you: I think the license of scim-chinese does not permit other to redistribute it, so in arch linux, extract files from the rpm or ask James to supply a tar.gz alternative on scim official site.

Do you intend to include scim-chinese in your 'extra' or 'current'? What about scim itself?

高原之狼

最初由 ganloo 发表
But things come to another side, I never get scim-chinese to work, I never successed to uncompress scim-chinese rpmpack by rpm2cpio

Works for me on Debian 3.0 (Woody):

1. 
   
2. [hexagon 21:08:29 ~/tmp/scim]$ ls -l
   
3. total 2208
   
4. -rw-r--r--    1 minghua  research  2255728 Apr  6 21:05 scim-chinese-0.2.7-1.i586.rpm
   
5. [hexagon 21:08:36 ~/tmp/scim]$ dpkg -l rpm cpio
   
6. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
   
7. | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
   
8. |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
   
9. ||/ Name           Version        Description
   
10. +++-==============-==============-============================================
    
11. ii  rpm            4.0.3-4        Red Hat Package Manager
    
12. ii  cpio           2.4.2-39       GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of
    
13. [hexagon 21:08:43 ~/tmp/scim]$ rpm2cpio scim-chinese-0.2.7-1.i586.rpm | cpio -id
    
14. 10277 blocks
    
15. [hexagon 21:14:13 ~/tmp/scim]$ ls -l
    
16. total 2216
    
17. drwxr-xr-x    3 minghua  research     4096 Apr  6 21:13 etc
    
18. -rw-r--r--    1 minghua  research  2255728 Apr  6 21:05 scim-chinese-0.2.7-1.i586.rpm
    
19. drwxr-xr-x    4 minghua  research     4096 Apr  6 21:13 usr
    

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ganloo

I am not an Arch developer, ^_^, but it's really a nice mistake, and remind me that I should contact Arch developer or maintainer for application for such postion, if possible. I will be totally willing to do some work for better chinese support, though I think there is little possiblity I can take patches into the packages. For better chinese display there are few problems but thing for the whole will be very difficult.

qsdickee

用fcitx也挺好的，我在slackware里用scim,