i'm afraid i do not understand what you are saying. The IBM http server is only downloadable in tar.gz file wich contains nothing but .rpm packages. How on earth is auto-apt and / or grep going to assist me in this ?
check it out on : http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/ Thank You, Joris -----Original Message----- From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 5:05 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: IBM http server : not on Debian ? > > What are the intricacies of installing red hat software on a Debian system ? > rpm is installed on my machine but fails to install. A number of libraries > are requested but i find it hard to figure out to wich package these > libraries belong. For the moment i have no info on these dependencies at > hand so i'm happy with any feedback on this issue. > in unstable there is a piece of software called auto-apt. One of its features is to search by file for packages. Other option is to grab the file Contents from a mirror and grep it. Or, if IBM has source available, just compile it on the Debian box.
