Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program you want to install?
Thing is that I accidently downloaded the wrong netscape (v4.2 or something similar) and it was 8 megs long so it took 2 hours on my humble 14.4 Anyway, it wouldn't work because the .deb installer is for 3.01 so I got that version (only 2 megs) and it worked. I'm sure that if I had a .deb installer for v4.2 (or whichever it is) then it would work in Debian, but we have to wait for a .deb file don't we?? So is there a way of installing a program in a tar.gz file without a .deb file? All gunzip gives me is the filename of the zip file minus the .gz bit. In DOS there's quite a nice zip utility called pkware which unzips a package of files which includes an executable installer. Surely that's a much better way of doing things? Also, this may detract some people from debian linux or indeed any of the linux distributions in favour of Win95 + NT + DOS, because you can't get the latest version of anything, and many Win95 + NT + DOS people are very much concerned with getting the very latest version of a program such as netscape, but with linux they'll have to install an older version of everything unless it's supported as a patch or comes with a .deb file. Does the new replacement for dselect do this?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]