Howard Coles Jr. wrote: >On Friday 21 October 2005 07:38 am, Brian wrote: > > >>Rodney D. Myers said the following on 21/10/2005 3:52 AM: >> >> >>>Well, thanks for the fun, but looks like it's time to move Abi-Word, >>>since OO is determined to use RPM's from this point forward. >>> >>> >>Depends on what you want. >>I have been experimenting with Kanotix (Debian) and have successfully >>used "Alien", a program for rpm -> deb conversion (and others). >> >> > >I think the point that EVERYBODY seems to be missing here is that Debian users >HAVE to use alien!! WHY on this earth could OOo not have stuck to an >installer on Linux like 1.1.x had? It worked on every distro I tried, it >made since, and it was easy! > > > The devs hated the linux code for the installer and decided to go this route - which seemed odd at first, but is actually working out better for me.
Running alien is NOT a big deal - since about build 120 (I think) I haven't needed to do any of the tweaks that were required around the first beta release. It works fine - you get the packages tailored to your machine - they run well AND they are seen by the default package manager for the distro then. No worries... Wes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
