debian
D. Hageman
dhageman at dracken.com
Thu Nov 8 20:56:18 CST 2001
If you want to use a .deb on a RPM based system you first have to run it
through alien. My personnal recommendation is to find the same package
that you want to install as a .rpm and go from there.
FYI if you didn't know ... .deb is the package format popularized by
Debian.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, dlegion wrote:
> HELP, HELP !!
> Ok, Im tying to install a .deb program on my redhat 7.1 system.
> I'm doing the following in a terminal, dpkg -i name_version-build.deb
> it pulls up the redhat rpm app but does not list my package for install, what
> am not doing or doing wrong ?
> Please.
>
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