> Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it > intrepreted alien -debian as "alien -d -e -b -i -a -n", and the -i made it > install the package it generated. Current versions of alien will *not* do > that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>alien --to -debian foo > Option to is ambiguous (to-deb, to-rpm, to-slp, to-tgz) > Unknown option: debian
I just checked and it was: alien --to-debian foo.tgz anyway, I've also tried it again with the same package (scriptum...tgz) but with the -d option instead: alien -d foo.tgz it does the same thing as earlier, it does not generate a .deb, but it creates a directory tree in / (after a few errors). The -d option worked (well, you know, sort of...) with the papyrus...tar.gz package (at least it just generated the .deb package and did not try to install anything). -------------------------------------------------- El hombre-masa actual es, en efecto, un primitivo, que por los bastidores se ha deslizado en el viejo escenario de la civilización. Ortega y Gasset - La Rebelión de las Masas. -------------------------------------------------- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
