[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Szyszka) wrote: >A couple KDE-based programs that I tried converting from RPM to >DEB recently have been installing themselves in something like >/opt/kde/bin or /opt/kde2/bin (this was yesterday when I tried setting >up kdealpha). Is there a way to do the conversion for alien so that >the DEBs install the programs into the right directories? Like instead >of /opt/kde2/bin they should put the stuff in /usr/bin and likewise for >/opt/kde2/lib , /opt/kde2/include , etc. What I'm thinking that I should >try is to backup those directories in /usr and then copy the files from >the /opt/kde2 folders into the /usr equivalents, but I think that the backup >will probably come in handy.
You could try using the -g (or --generate) option to alien; see the man page for full instructions, but this will allow you to move files around in the package before you actually build it. 'debian/rules binary' in the directory it produces will build the .deb itself when you're finished. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
