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Re: Hesitating to take the plunge in Debian



Previously Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 12/1/2000 Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> >What a relief... How easy is it roll one's own Debian package
> >from a tarball?
> 
> this I am not certain of, I have never build a .deb before, look at 
> the package maintainer's howto on the debian site (somewhere sorry 
> don't have a link)

alien --to-deb something.tar.gz
dpkg -i something.deb

Simple enough for you? :)

Wichert.

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