[ale] Alien error

[A LeDonne]

On 3/8/06, joh6nn <joh6nn at hotpop.com> wrote:
> A LeDonne wrote:
>
> >> Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} gaim.rpm":  at
> >> /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
>
>
> > - was your working directory the directory where gaim.rpm was located
> > at the time when you got the error?
> >
> > - what happens when you execute that command at the command line in
> > that directory?
>
> yes it was, but it makes no difference whether i'm in the same directory
> as the .rpm: i get the same error regardless of my working directory.
> was a good thought, though.
>

I see that my second question was ambiguous. I meant:

- what happens when you enter
  LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} gaim.rpm
at the command prompt while in the directory containing gaim.rpm?

-A