neddie Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 (edited) I was interested in trying out lisp, so tried to install the package "clisp". After downloading (I tried this twice) all I got was the error message: # urpmi clisp ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirro...2008.1.i586.rpm Installation failed, bad rpms: ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirro...2008.1.i586.rpm So I tried manually using a different repository: $ wget ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Lin...2008.1.i586.rpm # urpmi clisp-2.44.1-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm installing clisp-2.44.1-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm Preparing... ############################################################## 1/1: clisp ############################################################## error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/clisp/base/lispinit.mem;49199c25: cpio: read Has anyone got this working, is it a temporary package problem or something more permanently broken? Edited November 12, 2008 by neddie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 That is a corrupted rpm. [greg@halfway temp]$ rpm2cpio clisp-2.44.1-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm | cpio -ivd ./usr/bin/clisp ./usr/lib/clisp ./usr/lib/clisp/base ./usr/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run cpio: premature end of file I can't find one anywhere for 2008.1 that isn't corrupted, nor can I find any bug reports about it or any complaints about it. You said you wanted to experiment, so I suppose you'll have to start with compiling it from source. :P sourceforge.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Thanks for the feedback, Greg2, at least I know now it's not just me or my mirror. Does seem odd that noone has noticed this since 2008.1 came out, maybe it's not one of the more popular languages :unsure: Good news is that I tried the 2009.0 rpm and it installed ok (despite being over 1M smaller) so I'm now good to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 no one probably noticed because LISP doesnt really get the opress it deserves. i remember using a LISP interpreter on my CP/M laptop (good ol PX-8) If you DO get one running please let us know, it would be interesting to play with again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 I did get it running, like I said I just took the 2009.0 rpm from the repositories, downloaded the file with Firefox and then installed it via urpmi. I'll write something about it once I've had chance to play with it for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 very cool. i look forward to it j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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