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Re: deb..deb cryptohackery



On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:30:18PM +0100, Nick Herring wrote:
> ddd 3.0 core dumps when I select programs > run menu for command line
> arguements, so I have obtained a binary copy of ddd version 3.2.1 which
> is encrypted as a file with deb..deb extention -
> 
> ddd_3.2.1-3.deb..deb
> 
> the website (http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl) has posted a
> md5sum code for this file
> 
> How do I extract the file from this? 
> 
> I have already downloaded the source but it won't configure because lex
> is missing. So I can't build. And our systems dept have a load of work
> on so it won't get done for a while by them. So I need the binary.

It's not encrypted, it's a package. Not sure how you get the deb..deb
extension, but do this:

dpkg -i ddd_3.2.1-3.deb..deb

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