Re: Using alien to create a .deb

Pedro Kröger wrote: > Cameron Horsburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for your reply. >>1) Does anyone with any knowledge of the internals of Lilypond deb and >>RPM packages have any idea where alien might introduce any subtle problems? > > > yes, it may. debian has a strict policy re

Re: Using alien to create a .deb

Hi. > > I've been experimenting with the alien package to install Lilypond on my > Debian unstable box. That seemed like a good idea. > Being somewhat old fashioned I prefer to install my > software via dpkg/apt rather than the autopackage route! > I've read the arguments (from their web sit

Re: Using alien to create a .deb

Cameron Horsburgh wrote: Hi folks, I've been experimenting with the alien package to install Lilypond on my Debian unstable box. Being somewhat old fashioned I prefer to install my software via dpkg/apt rather than the autopackage route! I downloaded the RPM from the website, ran alien over

Re: Using alien to create a .deb

Cameron Horsburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Does anyone with any knowledge of the internals of Lilypond deb and > RPM packages have any idea where alien might introduce any subtle problems? yes, it may. debian has a strict policy regarding where things should be and behave (which may be ov

Using alien to create a .deb

Hi folks, I've been experimenting with the alien package to install Lilypond on my Debian unstable box. Being somewhat old fashioned I prefer to install my software via dpkg/apt rather than the autopackage route! I downloaded the RPM from the website, ran alien over it, and installed the resultin