EconoFast on hp600 (was : debian packages in RH 5.2)

1999-04-24 Thread Gal Aviel
Hellow all, 1) thanks for everyone who helpd. alien does seem to work good. glad you told me about it. the problem is that this process is never ending : I was tring to get EconoFast on my printer, slowly but surely I found myself replacing all the RH print system packages

RE: debian packages in RH 5.2

1999-04-23 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AR>> I've been trying to mx RH & Debian with alien/rpm. AR>> It work for small packages wich do not depend AR>> on other packages. Otherwise it gets very complicated. AFAIK rpm generates many important dependencies (like .so, etc) by itself. About package dependencies - I really don't know, I tri

RE: debian packages in RH 5.2

1999-04-23 Thread Alex Rier
On Friday, April 23, 1999 2:20 AM, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > GA>> my questions : > GA>> 1) does it work ? I mean installing a debian package into a RH system > GA>> (5.2 in my case) > > Yes. Use alien - it converts debs to rpms (and vice versa, and many

Re: debian packages in RH 5.2

1999-04-22 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
GA>> my questions : GA>> 1) does it work ? I mean installing a debian package into a RH system GA>> (5.2 in my case) Yes. Use alien - it converts debs to rpms (and vice versa, and many more). GA>> 2) where can I find the source and compile the debian package GA>> manager ? I GA>> seem

Re: debian packages in RH 5.2

1999-04-22 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Gal Aviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) does it work ? I mean installing a debian package into a RH system > (5.2 in my case) Yes, if you don't have take the binaries from potato (glibc2.1 based doen't work with you glibc2.0 system) > 2) where can I find the source and compile the debia

debian packages in RH 5.2

1999-04-22 Thread Gal Aviel
Hellow All, I wanted to use the Debian ghostscript package (rather than the supplied RH package) since it is precompiled with the hpdj driver - I need it for the EconoFast mode on my hpdj 600. (it's really really fast and saves ink which is important to me when I'm printing allot. there's a huge