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

["Horacio M.G." <homega@vlc.servicom.es>]

> 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 just checked and it was:
alien --to-debian foo.tgz

anyway, I've also tried it again with the same package
(scriptum...tgz) but with the -d option instead:
alien -d foo.tgz

it does the same thing as earlier, it does not generate a .deb, but it
creates a directory tree in / (after a few errors).

The -d option worked (well, you know, sort of...) with the
papyrus...tar.gz package (at least it just generated the .deb
package and did not try to install anything).



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Horacio
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