On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:28 PM Camm Maguire wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > > I don't know much about Debian, but I understand that there is > > some utility for accessing Debian products on "alien" linuxes. > > Has anyone tried using this approach to install Axiom on other > > platforms? > > > > The alien program can convert the .deb to a .rpm, which should > save everyone a lot of work I'd think. One can even unpack a > tarball from the deb -- details on request. >
This is what I have tried so far on the axiom-developer.org server (which is running RedHat 9). If anyone has some experience with doing this and has some suggestions and explanations to offer, I would greatly appreciate it! First I go here http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ to download and install the 'alien' program from 'Latest source code' Then I visit http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/axiom click on i386, choose a mirror and download the *.deb file I become root and then run # alien --to-rpm axiom_20050901-2_i386.deb It gives me some warnings about omitting "scripts": Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package axiom: postinst postrm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. axiom-20050901-3.i386.rpm generated Should I have used the --scripts parameter? Now I can try a test run: # rpm -ihv --test axiom-20050901-3.i386.rpm It tells me: error: Failed dependencies: libreadline.so.5 is needed by axiom-20050901-3 -------- Hmmm... I guess this sort of is working :) but where to go from here? Should I continue to try to satisfy a dependencies like libreadline.so.5 from Debian binaries? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
