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

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Horacio M.G. wrote:
> Do you mean you converted it to a .deb package just by:
> alien -d scriptum...tgz  ???  I've done it yet again and it happened 
> all over again:  no .deb package, and a tree directory right in / ( 
> /scriptum...).  I couldn't use dpkg since there was no .deb to use 
> with.  If "alien -d papyrus...tar.gz" had not generated a 
> papyrus...deb package, I would think there's an implicit installation 
> procedure with the "-d" option in alien (may be not with a ".tar.gz" 
> but with a ".tgz"?).

Please send me a cxomplete transcript. Yes, I converted it with no
problem and no -d does not do automatic installs.

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