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Amazon Linux 2023
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[Package Request] - cabextract #504

Closed mbialozor closed 5 months ago

mbialozor commented 9 months ago

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name. cabextract

Is this an update to existing package or new package request? New package request

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? If it is available via external sources such as EPEL, please specify. Yes (from EPEL)

Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc) cabextract is a program which can extract files from cabinet (.cab) archives.

stewartsmith commented 9 months ago

Looks like https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cabextract is in EPEL, and not in AL2 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/release-notes/removed-AL2023.2-AL2.html or AL1 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/release-notes/removed-AL2023.2-AL1.html

tpthaler commented 9 months ago

I need this as well, as it's a requirement to install the Microsoft Fonts package (which is critical to many applications).

tpthaler commented 9 months ago

@mbialozor if you build "cabextract" from the source, and then run your rpm -ivh --nodeps package-name.rpm; that is the work around I did.

mbialozor commented 9 months ago

@tpthaler, yup, I also need "cabextract" as the Microsoft Fonts dependency. As we use Amazon Linux under mission critical applications I can't (and don't want to) rely on anything compiled from source. We need proper support from OS vendor.

tpthaler commented 9 months ago

@mbialozor as a temporary (easy) stop gap; I found that if you have installed the fonts on a similar architecture AWS Linux 2 instance (from: /usr/share/fonts/msttcore/) to your new AWS Linux 2023 instance (to the same location), that does work properly.

mbialozor commented 9 months ago

Nice hacking, @tpthaler :).

tpthaler commented 9 months ago

Nice hacking, @tpthaler :).

out of desperation.... so far very unimpressed with AWS Linux 2023. Makes me feel like I'm back in the 90's.

mbialozor commented 9 months ago

Makes me feel like I'm back in the 90's.

@tpthaler, isn't is a fantastic feeling? You feel like teenager again :D.

so far very unimpressed with AWS Linux 2023

Yup, there are some missing things, f.e. all Nagios stuff. Additionally, we have to rewrite many of our playbooks due to some changed behaviors of Ansible 2.15 version, but I don't complain about this (now ;)) - nobody wants to stop the future.

stewartsmith commented 5 months ago

cabextract is now part of the AL2023.3.20240205 release.