Re: Woody Difficulty
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 06:38:11AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> I have just installed Woody, from four CDs made by a friend. In
> trying to set up my printing, I discovered that "apsfilter" wants
> a ghostscript of 5.5 or greater, while Woody gives only 5.1.
woody has gs 5.50-8 ...
> So I had to go out and get a new ghostscript -- I got 6.5. And
> building that has been a struggle, but an account of that probably
> doesn't belong here.<g>
6.5 is the proprietary version, packaged as gs-aladdin (that one is
quite out of date in woody, though; it's more current in unstable/sid).
> A question: are there utilities that can convert e.g. a .deb
> package into a .tar.gz package? I know that there is a utility,
> often useful, that does what its name suggests: rpm2tgz.
Yep. Try the 'alien' package - strictly, that converts into Slackware
.tgz packages - or just use 'dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb > foo.tar.gz'
or even 'ar x foo.deb data.tar.gz'.
The deb(5) man page describes the format of .deb package files, which
can be unpacked using only fairly standard Unix tools (ar, gzip, tar).
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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