Re: Installing win4lin on debian

[Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

John wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:37:21PM +1100, Russell wrote:
>
>>I downloaded Win4Lin-5.3.15b-d.i386.rpm and converted it to
>>Win4Lin_5.3.15b-d.i386.deb with alien. When i do as root:
>>
>>  dpkg -i Win4Lin_5.3.15b-d.i386.deb
>
>
> The last rpm I converted via alien changed Win4Lin to win4lin
> (lowercase), so make sure your in the directory where the deb package is
> & that you get the spelling right.

D'OH-head-but-0:0 it was the spelling;)
Should have been:
  dpkg -i win4lin_5.3.15b-1.i386.deb
and not:
  dpkg -i Win4Lin_5.3.15b-d.i386.deb

>>I get errors:
>>
>>  dpkg: error processing Win4Lin_5.3.15b-d.i386.deb (--install):
>>    cannot access archive: No such file or directory
>>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>>    Win4Lin_5.3.15b-d.i386.deb
>>
>
> I get the same error when the deb package isn't in the directory I'm in.
>
> John