Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???
On 14 Sep 98, at 14:09,
Joey Hess wrote:
> 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'm sure it was exactly like that, and I believe I got that from
the alien manpage... I'll check though. The alien version... don't
know, it's the one which come with Debian2.0 (sorry, still using
windows for mailing purposes).
>
> > I've just done that, I've installed libc5, rebooted the system, and
> > still "can't load libXmu.so.6"
>
> Now install xlib6...
did it! ...it seems I'm getting up to something. Now it no longer
says "can't load libXmu.so.6", instead it says:
"can't load libXpm.so.4"
What which other/s library/s should I install next?
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