Re: weather reporting program in debian
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:32:15AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> >Hi Kamaraju and Paul,
> >If its a console program, I'd try 'alien' to convert the package and
> >install it. What's the worst that can happen?
> >-Kev
> >
> >
> I got the rpm from
> http://rpmfind.rediris.es/rpm2html/fedora-os-i386/expect-5.39.0-93.i386.html
> and did a alien --to-deb
>
> Now If I install this deb file, I am getting the following error, Could
> someone tell me what to do.
>
> rajulocal@kusumanchi:/home/software/expect$ sudo dpkg --install
> expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package expect.
> (Reading database ... 127351 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking expect (from expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/mkpasswd.1.gz', which is also
> in package whois
I would say you are getting your self in trouble. I don't see why a
weather program should mess with the password encryption. Better be
careful what programs you install in your machine.
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