Hi Roberto Thanks for the very handy tip about checkinstall. I have never come across it before and it does seem to neatly handle the problem of installing, querying and uninstalling utilities installed from source. I see that it can even be used with rpms - I will pass that tip on to my Red Hat colleagues.
Regards Jim Holland System Administrator MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:05:15 -0500 > From: Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jim Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command > > Jim Holland wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight > > Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version > > 4.6.1-pre3-3, so found I had a choice between a tarball, a patch and an > > rpm at the following site: > > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/snapshots/ > > > > I thought I would be adventurous and run the command: > > > > wajig rpm2deb mc-2005112320-1.i386.rpm > > > > It successfully created a .deb package which installed fine. However I > > soon realised that that many of the files in the rpm (eg /usr/share/mc/* > > for example, as well as others) were missing from the .deb package. Is > > there any way round this problem other than going back to the tarball? Or > > is rpm2deb still somewhat experimental? > > > > Regards > > > > Jim Holland > > System Administrator > > MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service > > > > Please see my reply to your other message about getting a newer version > for Sarge. > > In general, it is a Bad Thing(TM) to turn packages from one format to > another. You are probably better off getting the upstream source and > then compiling it and installing it with checkinstall. > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
