In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>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
sometimes worth finding the shellfile loadem
(sh /opt/win4lin/drivers/tools/loadem I think) and re-running
but YMMV
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 ?
>
--
robert w hall
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