On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:48:45PM -0800, Charlie Zender wrote: > Hi, > > Wow. The help people are sending is incredible! This is the first > message I've posted to Debian User since I switched to Debian > a few weeks ago. I havn't needed to post anything else because it > just works, but these Intel compilers are a real challenge. > > 1. I tried "alien"'ing the RPMS and then manually changing INSTALL_DIR > in the scripts. This did not work for me. YMMV. > 2. Creating a new partition with RedHat just for this is the software > equivalent of building a second Taj Mahal because your wife does not > like the color of the first one.
Well HD is cheap. 500MB - 1GB for hassle free access is needed, this s the only way guaranteed. > 3. I asked Intel if they would supply Debian-compatible compilers > to their customers. FYI, their rather helpful reply is below. Basically > they seem to be saying that I can do a manual install along the lines > of what I tried but using rpm2cpio instead of alien. Maybe this will > work better, I have not tried it yet. See below along this trick. Dependencies to other libraries will be a bitch but .... if you wish... > 4. If anyone has a working solution, please let me know how you did it. > 5. I am using debian unstable, so it does not have to run on woody. OK, One more try on 3rd option :-) Open RPM with "mc" and copy files to where ever you think should go. Here "mc" is midnight commander. Unstable got new version, so it may be rough edged but I think testing is still old one. I know this is totally manual and stupid, but it should work if package dependencies does not bite you. ("mc" runs rpm2cpio inside but does it transparently for you.) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]