In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Emmanuel Charpentier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I receivedf today a license key for Win4Lin 2.0 as promised to Win4Lin
>1.0 customers. Great ! Netraverse/Trelos deserves compliments for this
>level of support.
>
>However, there is no .deb file and no support for Debian and/or Caldera.
>
>Ouch !
>
>I tried to rpm -i the relevant file. No luck : rmp halts while
>complaining that it depends on /bin/sh : ridiculous ! On my box, this
>exists and is a link to /bin/bash.
don't forget --nodeps switch
>Has anybody been able to install Win4Lin 2.0 on Debian 2.2 ?
>
>Has anybody any idea on how to unpack a RPM ? I'd like to see what the
>damn thing has in its insides ...
>
>Any idea ?
well us slackers regularly convert these things to an augmented tar.gz
format (.tgz) using rpm2tgz and install using pkgtool, all at standard
slack sites :-)
but I think if you get the --nodeps switch right (and have set up the
initial library file /var/lib/rpm using 'rpm --initdb') 'all thing shall
be well...'
Bob
>
> Emmanuel Charpentier
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