RE: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is called... I forget the name! I'm without access to the web or to a Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the search machine in http://www.debian.org./ Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda
Re: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
Leandro Dutra wrote: what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is called... I forget the name! I'm without access to the web or to a Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the search machine in http://www.debian.org./ There is a debian package that will read and install RPMs. It is called rpm. (surprise) However, it is disadvised to use it because it will bypass the dpkg system and build up cruft on your system, and won't be able to read dependancies between the two systems. It is better to use the package called alien to first convert the rpm to a deb, then install it with dpkg. -Mitch
An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
I made an interesting purchase just recently of Red Hat 5.1, thinking I would try it out and see if it was any better. It had some advantages and disadvantages, but in the end I decided to come back to debian. The situation I am in now however, is that I have an applications CD (the third Cd in the set) from redhat 5.1, but I have no idea what these applications are. I would like to try these out but want to know what is what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? I believe that redhat uses a program called glide to read this application CD, is there an equivalent for debian ?? or should I try installing glide (which I doubt would work as I would need to include other parts of redhat) ?? Install the alien package which includes RPM. You can now use the query command of rpm to get the descriptions of the packages on that redhat cd. You could also convert all the packages to .deb's and put them in their own directory on your hd, and then examine them with deselect. Any one have comments on this... Thanks _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
Subject: RE: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's) Date: Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:00:42PM +0200 In reply to:Leandro Dutra Quoting Leandro Dutra([EMAIL PROTECTED]): what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is called... I forget the name! I'm without access to the web or to a Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the search machine in http://www.debian.org./ Let me see, oh ya, its's called rpm. One version is in: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/rpm_2.5.1-6.deb HTH Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
Hello Debian Land, I made an interesting purchase just recently of Red Hat 5.1, thinking I would try it out and see if it was any better. It had some advantages and disadvantages, but in the end I decided to come back to debian. The situation I am in now however, is that I have an applications CD (the third Cd in the set) from redhat 5.1, but I have no idea what these applications are. I would like to try these out but want to know what is what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? I believe that redhat uses a program called glide to read this application CD, is there an equivalent for debian ?? or should I try installing glide (which I doubt would work as I would need to include other parts of redhat) ?? Any one have comments on this... Thanks. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind
