Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Charlie Zender wrote: 2. Creating a new partition with RedHat just for this is the software equivalent of building a second Taj Mahal because your wife does not like the color of the first one. You don't need a partition. Just a copy of the directory structure. These are the directories that

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes Bob is right. Let me add few words for quick and sure cure :-) On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Nathan Poznick wrote: error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) Actually, this error is usually due to the RPM database not

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-10 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, Wow. The help people are sending is incredible! This is the first message I've posted to Debian User since I switched to Debian a few weeks ago. I havn't needed to post anything else because it just works, but these Intel compilers are a real challenge. 1. I tried alien'ing the RPMS and then

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:48:45PM -0800, Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, Wow. The help people are sending is incredible! This is the first message I've posted to Debian User since I switched to Debian a few weeks ago. I havn't needed to post anything else because it just works, but these Intel

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan Poznick
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) Actually, this error is usually due to the RPM database not being initialized. As root, do an rpm --initdb And you shouldn't get that message anymore. However, it is probably best to simply use alien to convert the

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Nathan Poznick wrote: error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) Actually, this error is usually due to the RPM database not being initialized. As root, do an rpm --initdb And you shouldn't get that message anymore. However, it is probably best to

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:34:05AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed on

Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: error: cannot open Packages index

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Barry deFreese
Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: error: cannot

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: error: cannot