Hi,
I get a strange error when installing texlive 2008;
I tried via yast & zypper directly but always
Retrieving package texlive-2008-13.14.1.noarch (1/3), 253.6 MiB (465.5 MiB unpacked)
Installing: texlive-2008-13.14.1 [error]
Installation of texlive-2008-13.14.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/texmf/main/ls-R: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
Any clues or repositories fix this?
As you may, or may not see, the rpm tries to unpack an archive. Please post output of:
su -c ‘ls -ld /var/lib/*’
and
su -c 'ls -ld /var/lib/texfm/*
The error says a file needs to be renamed, but it’s not a file, but a directory (folder) instead.
Hi, thanks for your answer here the output
ls -ld /var/lib/texfm/
ls: cannot access /var/lib/texfm/*: No such file or directory
ls -ld /var/lib/*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-28 10:36 /var/lib/apparmor
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-27 18:14 /var/lib/autoinstall
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-21 23:45 /var/lib/bluetooth
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2010-01-22 13:24 /var/lib/CAM
drwxr-xr-x 2 vscan vscan 4096 2009-11-10 18:51 /var/lib/clamav
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096drwxr-xr-x 2 wwwrun root 4096 2009-10-27 18:42 /var/lib/php5
drwxrwx— 2 polkituser polkituser 4096 2009-10-19 17:51 /var/lib/PolicyKit
drwxrwxr-x 2 polkituser polkituser 20480 2009-10-19 17:51 /var/lib/PolicyKit-public
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2009-10-30 18:20 /var/lib/polkit-1
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 2009-10-19 19:50 /var/lib/postfix
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-24 05:59 /var/lib/rpcbind
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-01-28 11:55 /var/lib/rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 93 2009-12-22 00:40 /var/lib/s2disk.conf
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-10-27 09:14 /var/lib/samba
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-02 13:25 /var/lib/sax
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2010-01-22 13:23 /var/lib/scpm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-22 13:24 /var/lib/sgml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-28 13:37 /var/lib/smartmontools
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-19 20:08 /var/lib/sshd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-22 13:22 /var/lib/susehelp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-19 17:31 /var/lib/suseRegister
drwxr-xr-t 7 root root 4096 2010-01-28 12:55 /var/lib/texmf
drwxr-xr-x 2 wwwrun root 4096 2009-10-24 02:47 /var/lib/wwwrun
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-22 13:42 /var/lib/X11
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-22 16:57 /var/lib/xdm
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-10-27 16:09 /var/lib/xen
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-27 16:08 /var/lib/xenstored
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-02 13:11 /var/lib/xkb
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-01-28 13:39 /var/lib/YaST2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-28 13:39 /var/lib/zypp