>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?? > Well, firstly there's a 4.2 debian installer package, which you could have downloaded instead. Secondly, if you type tar xvzf <filename>.gz, it should unzip it properly.
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