On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 06:38:11AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > I have just installed Woody, from four CDs made by a friend. In > trying to set up my printing, I discovered that "apsfilter" wants > a ghostscript of 5.5 or greater, while Woody gives only 5.1.
woody has gs 5.50-8 ... > So I had to go out and get a new ghostscript -- I got 6.5. And > building that has been a struggle, but an account of that probably > doesn't belong here.<g> 6.5 is the proprietary version, packaged as gs-aladdin (that one is quite out of date in woody, though; it's more current in unstable/sid). > A question: are there utilities that can convert e.g. a .deb > package into a .tar.gz package? I know that there is a utility, > often useful, that does what its name suggests: rpm2tgz. Yep. Try the 'alien' package - strictly, that converts into Slackware .tgz packages - or just use 'dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb > foo.tar.gz' or even 'ar x foo.deb data.tar.gz'. The deb(5) man page describes the format of .deb package files, which can be unpacked using only fairly standard Unix tools (ar, gzip, tar). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
