On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:32:39AM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Does anyone know if Broadcast2000 > (http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html) is available as a Debian > package? The site allows for download of a RedHat .rpm, but I am not > very comfortable with the installation of .rpm's on Debian. > Also there is an option for a source download. i don't know but if not you can do this: alien -t bcast.rpm tar -zxvpf bcast.tar.gz pick apart the various files and install them into /usr/local. > Does anyone have any positive experience with any of those options? as of yet i have not ever needed to really do this but its the best way to do it IMO. installing random .rpms (even if converted to .debs) seems like a hideous idea to me. course i may just be pedantic, i once tried out vmware and insisted on manually installing everything without using their obfuscated perl install scripts. i did get it working though, the main thing that took so long was i made a very large effort to force it to run without root privileges, unfortunatly i was not sucessful on that part. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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