Packages

[Leszek Gerwatowski <lg@peryt.waw.pl>]

I'm new on this list so my question is very simple (and maybe stupid).But ...
Where can i find any packages (except normal distribution packages) in 
.deb format? As i understand any package installed on Debian should be in 
this format - in other case system database of installed packages will be 
unupdated so i will have no chance to deinstall and manage package this 
same way as i do with normal distribiution packages (with dpkg or 
dselect). Maybe there is same way of preparing .deb package from normal 
one in usual .tgz format??

Thanks in advance!

Leszek Gerwatowski

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* IBM Business Partner    | Institute of Mathematics          *
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