Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread L. Besselink
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I > think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it > is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb > suffix slightly fr

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
a deb is an ar archive containing two tar.gz files. Simply do: ar x filename.deb then tar zxvf the data.tar.gz. A better solution however is to use alien. It understands most packagers.

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: > > I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I > think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it > is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb > suffix slightly frightens me f

installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Colin Rowat
Hi all, I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view. If you could pleas