Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Horacio M.G. wrote:
> well, it was just like that, and the result was as I said, no .deb 
> package, instead the tree directory directly in /.

Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it
intrepreted alien -debian as "alien -d -e -b -i -a -n", and the -i made it
install the package it generated. Current versions of alien will *not* do
that:

joey@kite:~>alien --to -debian foo
Option to is ambiguous (to-deb, to-rpm, to-slp, to-tgz)
Unknown option: debian

> I've just done that, I've installed libc5, rebooted the system, and still 
> "can't load libXmu.so.6"

Now install xlib6...

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