On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:01:59AM +0000, robert w hall wrote:
> 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
> >
Thanks, but that didn't help. At least the beta version is still good
for 30 days and hopefully a solution will emerge before then. I would
rather not go back to version 1.0.
Bob
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