On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:53:35PM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Thus spake Kevin Mark: > # So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a > # debian package? > # If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it. > > The weather program is a demo stript that gives an example of how to use expect. > In Red Hat and Fedora, this example program is either placed or linked in > /usr/bin. Careful examination of my system which has expect installed shows > thatthe weather script as well as all other expect example scripts are located > in the more appropriate /usr/share/doc/expect/examples directory where they can > more easily be found. If you want to use the weather script, there is no need > to install an alien package. Simply > > ln -s /usr/share/DOC/expect/examples/weather /usr/bin > > Sorry for the late reply on this one, but it actually took me this long to find > the relevant info. ;-) > > HTH, > PRINCE Hi The-$USER-Formaly-Know-as-Prince, Thanks for the detailed info. So, you 'weather' program was actaully a script that uses 'expect'. In that case, you just-run-it. So you dont need to get a 'fedora' expect package. You just install debian 'expect' and run it. -Kev
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