On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:57:24AM +0000, Manon Metten wrote: > Second: What to do if no debian package exists at all? Eg: suppose Adobe > Acrobat would only be available as an .rpm package (and not as a tarball > like now). What should I do in such a case?
I did this once but I forget what for. I used mc (midnight commander) to poke into the rpm just as if (maybe it is) a tarball and installed everything under /usr/local. This was before /opt was in the hier. Now that /opt is in the hier, I would suggest that you would install the whole shebang manually under /opt/$PACKAGENAME which makes removal later much easier. Then you just need to adjust your path and read the documentation. The only problem is if a program is written with hard-coded locations (e.g. it looks for a specific file in a specific place). If it gets too convoluted, I forget it and rewrite the app in python/fortran (my languages of choice). This latter option is what I've done since for anything for which there is no suitable debian native package. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
