On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:01:14 -0400 > Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know who the .deb maintainer for GAIM is? I downloaded > > and built the binaries for GAIM 1.5.0 today and am running it know > > under Etch on an Ultra 5 without any problems. Howver, I am having > > problems with rpm -ba to build an .RPM format I want to convert to > > .DEB later (using alien). Any ideas? > > > > Why not grab the source, and build it yourself? You could use > checkinstall to create your own deb file. > > The current maintainer always adds a "1:" before his builds, which > screws up. IMHO >
Why not get the source from Sid and rebuild it on Etch? Then you have the benefit of installing it as a real Debian package. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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