Caldera is supported, but not Debian or any other distributions which
use the Debian .deb packaging format (Stormix, Progeny, Corel, etc.)
Unfortunately more and more packages are becoming available in .rpm
format exclusively (although some others are available only in .deb
format). There was some talk a few years ago of Red Hat and Debian
trying to agree on a new format which would include the best features
of each of these, but I guess that never happened.
I am not familiar with unpacking .rpm files, but if you converted it to
a .deb (with alien), you can unpack that with 'ar -x <filename>.deb'.
ar is included in the 'binutils' package.
As far as I can tell, the previously supplied .deb files were converted
from .rpm with alien. Unfortunately, there appear to be problems when
the converted Win4Lin 2.0 package is installed. As I previously
posted, I get the following error when running 'win &' (also when just
running 'dos'):
dos: ERROR CODESET_NS: 8859 /usr/lib/merge/lcs 8859 -1
I don't know if this implies there is a problem with alien or ???
Bob
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 ?
>
> 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 ?
--
Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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