Jim Holland wrote: > I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight > Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version > 4.6.1-pre3-3, so found I had a choice between a tarball, a patch and an > rpm at the following site: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/snapshots/ > > I thought I would be adventurous and run the command: > > wajig rpm2deb mc-2005112320-1.i386.rpm > > It successfully created a .deb package which installed fine. However I > soon realised that that many of the files in the rpm (eg /usr/share/mc/* > for example, as well as others) were missing from the .deb package. Is > there any way round this problem other than going back to the tarball? Or > is rpm2deb still somewhat experimental? After converting that file with alien, I don't see any missing files in the deb. AFAIK wajig uses alien. -- see shy jo
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