tp_smapi on T420 under Fedora 17

[eduardowoj]

Hello!

Recently I bought a T420 to replace an old Dell Inspiron 1525. I'm just in love with this new piece of hardware, and now I really understand why the TPs are loved.

I'm a linux user (but not quite a power user, by the way...), and I'm working with Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle. I want to install the tools to protect my TP, just the way the Thinkvantage does with Windows, like hdapsd (to make the TP APS work under linux, and protect my HDD) and mainly tp_smapi, to manage the tools. I found guides to install tp_smapi on F16, F15 and older versions, but I can't install it on Fedora 17. I manually downloaded and tried to install, but I only get this:

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[eduardo@Andromeda ~]$ su -c "yum localinstall tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch.rpm --nogpgcheck"
Password: 
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Examining tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch.rpm: tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch
Marking tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package tp_smapi.noarch 0:0.40-5.fc17 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

====================================================================================================================================
 Package                   Arch                    Version                      Repository                                     Size
====================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 tp_smapi                  noarch                  0.40-5.fc17                  /tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch                   40 k

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 40 k
Installed size: 40 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch                                                                                      1/1 
Error unpacking rpm package tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/tp_smapi-0.40/CHANGES;5034eaaa: cpio: read
  Verifying  : tp_smapi-0.40-5.fc17.noarch                                                                                      1/1 

Failed:
  tp_smapi.noarch 0:0.40-5.fc17                                                                                                     

Complete!

Someone can help me? What am I doing wrong?

[ThinkRob]

Where did you get the package from?

I typically try avoid installing packages from outside of my distro's repositories as there's no telling a) what they'll do to my machine b) whether they'll actually work.

[eduardowoj]

I grabbed it from here: http://endur.fedorapeople.org/downloads/. I saw the thread here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=276687.

I saw you have a Thinkpad too. Can you help me?

[ThinkRob]

I saw you have a Thinkpad too. Can you help me?

If Fedora doesn't offer an officila package then I'm afraid I don't have many recommendations other than "compile it yourself". It should "just work", provided you've got the kernel-headers package installed.

Personally I would never trust an unofficial binary package of kernel module.