Re: using RHL 7's rpm in debian 2.2r2
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:48:33AM +0530, Ankit Jain wrote:
> I have been a longtime user of RedHat and installed Debian 2.2r2
> today. I have a few queries-
> 1. I have a dial-up connection so its not possible for me to d/l
> huge binaries. I have the RHL 7 cd, n it has XFree86 4.0.1.rpm, can
> i use this 2 install Xf 4.0.1 on my debian box ?
Two complications: 1. Potato's alien would not translate RHL 7's rpm's
to debian. You need one from woody and that will require libc6 2.2 as
far as I know. 2. Your dependencies may create a lot of problems.
You may try alien for smaller packages which are not available in
Debian, but I would not try it with something like XF 4.0.1.
You would be better off by using apt-get source and get sources from
testing or unstable, compiling them to debian packages and install
them on potato if you want to use newer versions.
Regards.
Johann
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