Martin: alien -i oracle.rpm (or whatever the filename turns out to be)
that sounds like the best ~/.plan to me. - DeJay. _________ / Bedrock \__________________________ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |_____________________________________| On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Martin Oldfield wrote: > >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex> Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use > Alex> Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even > Alex> distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download > Alex> it right now, if you want. > > Personally I think that this misses the point. If Oracle support > RedHat and I can just get the software and install it then it's a much > more attractive proposition than having to install tarballs on > Debian. Is it too much to hope that Debian's supposedly superior > technology would persuade Oracle to release their software in a .deb ?
