I downloaded the rpm package and installed my
win4lin via the rpm package manager. And/or, a
friend of mine told me that there are several options
that might be needed to use alien. Apparently one
of them tells alien to enable the script processing,
which does some script conversions out of the rpm
package into the deb package. But like I said,
I went the lazy route and just used rpm.
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 01:50:58 -0800, Martin J . Hillyer wrote:
>Has any Debian user found a way to successfully install w4l-2.0.1 (aka
>5.1.1c-1)? I've tried using the same techniques which worked
>successfully with 2.0, ie, use alien to convert the .rpm to a .deb and
>install, but so far no joy. If I just install the .deb and run win&,
>I get an error message which says:
>
>IMPROPER_INSTL: dos: ERROR: Improperly installed.
>Permissions or privileges are incorrect.
>
>If I run postinst_rpm.sh, I get a slew of 'file exists' messages,
>followed by the usual "All users that use the C shell (csh) or similar
>shells (e.g. tcsh) need to log out and log back in so that the newly
>installed commands can be used"
>
>Then if I try to run w4l I get a different error message from the
>above:
>
>NOT_R_ERR: dos: ERROR: unable to open file
>'/var/win4lin/image/std/vga/vga.img'.
>File does not exist or is not readable by you
>
>A check reveals that the file cited is not in fact installed.
>
>I suppose I can go back to the 2.0 version, which worked fine, but
>it's late and I'll have to try it tomorrow. I wanted to try w4l 2.0.1
>to cure the annoying screen refresh problem and the Symbol font
>problem, but I can live without those as there are workarouunds. I
>certainly hope this problem doesn't mean that Netraverse has now
>totally abandoned Debian users.
>
>
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