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On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 04:55:15PM +0200, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Hello, List ! Czerno talking.
> 
> Installing Karolis's lynx ver 2.8.6rel4 was easy - much to my
> surprise! It works as advertised in BL3, without any external
> libraries; except I met the announced problem with gunzip : "Error
> uncompressing...".

Yes, because busybox gzip doesn't support some flag (if I recall
correctly, "-n") lynx tries to feed it and chokes.

> Hence I also downloaded the gzip-1.3.9-libc5-2.2 from Karolis's site.

As I remember, it had some strange uclibc-caused problems when working with 
2.2
kernel that rendered it almost unusable. I suggest you use gzip from SW4.0:

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http://text.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.slackware.com/slackware-4.0/slakware/a6/gzip.tgz
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> My question is : in order to keep the install clean, into which dir
> should I put the gzip binary ? How do I delete the obsoleted symlinks
> (is that the word?) to busybox,

Just:

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rm /bin/some_symlink
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> and how do I create new symlinks to
> this stand alone gszip (as maybe required) ?

If you intend to put gzip binary somewhere else (outside the $PATH):

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ln -s /somewhere/gzip /bin/gzip
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Karolis