Re: weather reporting program in debian

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Kamaraju Kusumanchi:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
> 
> >If its a console program, I'd try 'alien' to convert the package and
> >install it. What's the worst that can happen?
> >
> I got the rpm from 
> http://rpmfind.rediris.es/rpm2html/fedora-os-i386/expect-5.39.0-93.i386.html 

I think you got the wrong one.  expect is an altogether different
animal.  It may be needed by your weather proggie, but I doubt it is
your weather proggie.

expect is available from Debian in .deb format.  The Woody/stable
version is 5.32.2-4

Try "apt-get update ; apt-cache show expect"


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