On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 07:54 +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: > Dear list, > > I found a Mandrake RPM I wanted to use and since it was a new project I > downloaded a Mandrake CD 10.1 and installed it on an old box. > > So I was have been swimming in RPM Dependancy custard for many hours.
urpmi can probably just solve that problem for you. Might be easier. > So, rather than fight with Mandrake I throught I would use Debian with Alien. > > I used apt-get to install Alien but I could not find any instruction for > using > Alien I usually invoke it as 'alien -d -c -k', which will get you a suitable deb file. It won't help however, since your aliened deb package will be bereft of the dependency information you'd need to get it to work. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
