On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:08:36AM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > > I just download sybase ase, it is in rpm format. I do not know how to > install it in Debian. I am using Debian 2.0. Any help would be highly > appreciated.
There is a debian rpm package but...it doesn't work on its own (not being a distro which uses rpm we don't have the RPM package information and databases it needs) but... you can install alien which uses rpm. my advice...I have used alien only a few times... do this: alien -tc RPMFILE.rpm then you will have a tarball (RPMFILE.tgz) in the directory. make a new dir temp and untar it into temp (mv RPMFILE.tgz temp;cdtemp; tar xvf *) This will give you a chance to look at it. I would recommend installin git by hand into /usr/local -Steve OTOH I used fvwm95 until I got kde working and if you open the rpm with alien in the gui it will create a deb then you can dpkg -i and install which I have done with both tgz and rpm, this is in deb 2. Worked a treat which is fortunate as I know nothing about linux or unix. Now I have to learn how to get loadlin working correctly so I can dual boot. after that I need to learn how to set up ppp etcetra. I am finding moving from win95 an enjoyable process but the learning curve I am finding is pretty steep. I should have learned how to program beforehand I think. Hopefully I haven't restated what Steve said beforehand. cheers, Mike
