PowerPC alien patch (to run Netscape on Debian potato)
Since I suspect many of you want to use the Netscape RPM from
LinuxPPC-r5 on Debian, here's a patch to alien's source tree that
implements "ppc -> powerpc". It may apply to the installed file too,
but I didn't try that...
--- lib/Fromrpm.pm~ Sat Apr 10 16:14:58 1999
+++ lib/Fromrpm.pm Tue Jun 15 01:06:33 1999
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
$fields{ARCH}='i386';
}
+ # Treat ppc as powerpc.
+ if ($fields{ARCH} == 'ppc') {
+ $fields{ARCH} = 'powerpc';
+ }
+
if ($fields{RELEASE} eq undef || $fields{VERSION} eq undef|| !$fields{NAME}) {
Alien::Error("Error querying rpm file.");
}
(This has been submitted to the alien maintainer - report #39550.)
So all you need to do is:
apply this patch to your alien
download the netscape RPM (see previous messages)
sudo alien --to-deb netscape-4.6-1.rpm
[wait a while]
sudo dpkg -i netscape_4.6-2_powerpc.deb
Chris
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