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Re: Installing a package interactively



Hi,
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:57:02AM -0800, Jim Woodruff wrote:
> 
> >
> > Another way is brows its content by "midnight commander" and copy files
> > to appropriate directory.
> >
> I apologize for not being very clear with my question. This is my problem:
> 
> I'm running a DEC Alpha using Debian 3.0 (unstable). Compaq has made their
> Tru64 Unix CCC and C++ compilers availabe for the Linux Alphas.

Wow, you got nice machine.

> But Compaq
> doesn't allow redistribution of their software. Consequently, I have to
> get consent from them and download their programs (in Red Hat rpm format)
> and then apt-get (this is where I'm hung up) the ccc and cxx .deb packages
> from the debian unstable ftp directory that installs the Compaq files.

$ apt-cache show ccc cxx

W: Unable to locate package ccc
W: Unable to locate package cxx

There is no package called ccc and cxx in Debian, as I see it.

> I have downloaded the file from Compaq and when I "apt-get install" the ccc
> package from Debian, it exits with the following error:
> 
> "You are running in non-interactive mode and the Compaq needs to prompt ...
> Please re-install it in interactive mode."

Because there is no such packages.

> I've also tried "dpkg -i" with the downloaded Debian ccc package with the
> same results.

Can you provide what file name you gave to dpkg -i?  Does not make
sense.

> I've also tried converting the Red Hat rpm file with alien but it does not
> build correctly and the resultant .deb package doesn't install correctly.

Did you use latest rpm related programs?

> Can anyone shed some light or have pearls of wisdom they like to share?


Did you analyze what is happening and what files are in rpm throgh
midnight commander.
> 

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