Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I
> think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it
> is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb
> suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view.
>
Well, it's part of teh Debian distribution, so I guess, the sourcxes
should be available, that would probably work better.
It's mostly a bad idea to try to put debian packages on other systems, but
debian.
> If you could please respond directly to me as well as to the list I
> would appreciate that as I am not on the list.
BTW why are you NOT on the list ?
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