On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 01:56, Brad Camroux wrote: > On February 18, 2004 11:38 pm, s. keeling wrote: > > > Hmm... I don't know about alien... think I may have heard of it, > > > but have never actually tried to use it. I just tried to install > > > using rpm -i > > > > Bad idea. On Debian, use .debs. > > Okies... I just tried to do the alien thing, and it seemed to just > freeze on me. Does the conversion generally take a really long time? > (It must have been over 20 min at the time I broke out of the > command, and the .rpm file is only about 74MB.) To convert from rpm to .deb, alien has to take apart the whole .rpm and basically re-assemble it to a .deb. 74MB with tons of little files (which SEPlib has) will take quite a while. It is basically re-packaging the every file and scripts used... doing a myriad of other things... Anyway, a 74MB package is a Very big package for Debian... typically the average package size excluding things like source and the binary kernel image and so on. ~800KB. Very well then. To get lotsa feedback: alien --to-deb --scripts --verbose yurrpm.i386.rpm Even more feedback: alien --to-deb --scripts --veryverbose yurrpm.i386.rpm > I'm a little frustrated, because previous versions of the SEPLib > package were _much_ easier to install from source. They didn't > require F90 or anything like that... it was optional..... <sigh> Well, that is a choice they made. You will have to abide by it. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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