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How do I deal with "unpacking of archive failed ... cpio: symlink"?
I had a similar (but different) problem, and since this Q&A is the first hit I got while searching, I thought I would record my experience here.
In my case, the error message from rpm was:
Error: ...
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Is there a way to use Linux-like symlinks on a Windows computer?
Symlinks on Linux are implemented differently than on Windows:
On Windows a symlink is an object that's implemented and interpreted
by the kernel
On Linux, a symlink is simply a file with a special ...
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Where is the real location of data when using symlinks?
When you create a symlink using mklink /D Link Target where does the real data exist? Where the target is right ?
It continues to exist at the target only. The reason symlinks are called symbolic ...
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How to prevent Windows file explorer from automatically linking a .html (or .htm) file to a similarly named folder? (Connected Files in File Explorer)
Although this is technically a workaround, if you don't want to make any modifications such as those mentioned above, you can save all of your saved pages to a Dropbox folder (or possibly any other ...
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Brew installed, linked, but not found
Found the answer in stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72387809/602072
NOTE: For Apple Silicon machines the PATH is different.
Add this line(s) to .bashrc or .zshrc
# Intel export PATH=$PATH:...
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How to "find" while following specific symlinks on Linux?
The last sentence of the question suggests the problem is not with following symlinks in general (and e.g. applying -newer to the symlink in one case, while to the target in another case), but with ...
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