Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:57:02AM -0800, Jim Woodruff wrote: > > > > > Another way is brows its content by "midnight commander" and copy files > > to appropriate directory. > > > I apologize for not being very clear with my question. This is my problem: > > I'm running a DEC Alpha using Debian 3.0 (unstable). Compaq has made their > Tru64 Unix CCC and C++ compilers availabe for the Linux Alphas.
Wow, you got nice machine. > But Compaq > doesn't allow redistribution of their software. Consequently, I have to > get consent from them and download their programs (in Red Hat rpm format) > and then apt-get (this is where I'm hung up) the ccc and cxx .deb packages > from the debian unstable ftp directory that installs the Compaq files. $ apt-cache show ccc cxx W: Unable to locate package ccc W: Unable to locate package cxx There is no package called ccc and cxx in Debian, as I see it. > I have downloaded the file from Compaq and when I "apt-get install" the ccc > package from Debian, it exits with the following error: > > "You are running in non-interactive mode and the Compaq needs to prompt ... > Please re-install it in interactive mode." Because there is no such packages. > I've also tried "dpkg -i" with the downloaded Debian ccc package with the > same results. Can you provide what file name you gave to dpkg -i? Does not make sense. > I've also tried converting the Red Hat rpm file with alien but it does not > build correctly and the resultant .deb package doesn't install correctly. Did you use latest rpm related programs? > Can anyone shed some light or have pearls of wisdom they like to share? Did you analyze what is happening and what files are in rpm throgh midnight commander. > -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
