-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 09:05, Grok Mogger wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:21:15AM +0200, steef wrote: >>> hi list, >>> >>> AVG (www.grisoft.com) has a in their opinion 'free' >>> anti-virusprogram AVG. does debian (i.c. sarge and or etch) >>> really need such a program? and, what is free? i cannot find >>> their source-code on their webpage. >>> >>> your comments on this topic are highly appreciated, >> >> AVG offers a free, limited version of their windows anti-virus >> program and its actually pretty good (I use it on my wife's win >> box and I recommend it to my kool-aid drinking friends). It is >> free, in that you don't have to pay for it. it is not free as >> we debianistas know free software... do they now have a linux >> version? > > [*snip*] > > I looked into this and it turns out that they do have a Linux > version available. But apparently only as an rpm. Is there any > way to install an rpm on Debian...?
$ apt-cache show alien Package: alien Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 464 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 8.64 Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.64_all.deb Size: 103572 MD5sum: f8105f4f5e2ec4d056370c216044c9e5 SHA1: cc7f861849c090730bd3ff7480bf1a026e338383 SHA256: 00b99a7fb0053148369bea869240ecf6c631cb592f525dce2431bccf92033e4c Description: install non-native packages with dpkg Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. > I guess a good 2nd question to ask would be, if so, does it seem > to work well? =P The bigger question is, "Why do you need A/V on your Linux box?" - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFNjjZS9HxQb37XmcRAvcJAKCmJ2sSRy/ju6ZP+k6rsQurYxQmKwCgmupM 4qpHxyaV1dGqNDIQ6bT9Y0g= =E3yE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
