Re: Can one "fake" a Debian package?
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> It is my belief that I am better off installing Qt and KDE from source,
> because some newer apps won't run from the deb installations. Still, if I try
> to install a deb package for Debian, the package usually complains that it
> does not find debian packages for KDE installed and it quits. I looked into
> the equivs package, but from what I read, it is not a good solution and can
> break a system.
Exactly. I _tried_ installing the debs. But either KDE would not work at
all or certain apps would not work. I could not find one that consistently
worked. I gave up and used the source tarballs instead.
- Bill
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