On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:34:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:

>
>   > Would s/he download the sources a
>   > t http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/fbtv.html
>   > then unDeb them (or what ever you call it ;-)
>   > then tgz them and mail them over to me (off list) please?
>   > 
>Alien should do this. 

To convert using alien he will have to have dpkg also on his machine :-)

>   
>   > Else can someone please suggest a util which will convert a .deb to 
>   > .tgz?
>   > Else can someone please tell me if there is some util for Slackware 
>   > which would allow me to unDeb those files?
>   > 
>Maybe you should try checkinstall. 

Wrong. Checkinstall is to install the packges after converting to the
package format whichever u want deb, rpm etc. It is not for converting from
one package format to another.

Peace

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Rajesh
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