On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:37:29PM +0100, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> 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.
>
> I tried to convert the .rpm to a .dep. The package *seems* to install,
> but there is no "win" executable in the path and running winsetup gives
> a lot of error messages in the terminal windows used to launch it and
> trying to "Install dos" fails miserably telling that I need to be root
> to do that (which I su -'d to, of course ...).
>
> Has anybody been able to install Win4Lin 2.0 on Debian 2.2 ?
Hi
I'm just about to download and try the final version with my license.txt,
but the later evaluation versions gave me the same problem as you
described.... What you need to do is run the script (as root)
/opt/win4lin/postinst_rpm.sh
which is what is exceuted on a redhat system as part of the installation.
I have no idea why this doesnt get into the debian "postinst" control
file after the "debianification" of the rpm package.
After I did that everything worked for me.
This last worked on the win4lin_5.1.0e-2_i386.deb that I created using
"fakeroot alien --to-deb Win4lin.....rpm" on a debian 2.2 system
I imagine the final 2.0 version would be the same...
If i encounter further difficulties I'll report back, but I have to
keep using my current windows session for a few hours to finish something
off before I'll be able to try..
Hope that helps
Cormac
>
> 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 ?
>
> Emmanuel Charpentier
>
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