Antonio Rodriguez wrote:I should have been clearer before.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:32:15AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
Kevin Mark wrote:
Hi Kamaraju and Paul, If its a console program, I'd try 'alien' to convert the package and install it. What's the worst that can happen? -Kev
I got the rpm from http://rpmfind.rediris.es/rpm2html/fedora-os-i386/expect-5.39.0-93.i386.html and did a alien --to-deb
Now If I install this deb file, I am getting the following error, Could someone tell me what to do.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/software/expect$ sudo dpkg --install expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package expect.
(Reading database ... 127351 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking expect (from expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/mkpasswd.1.gz', which is also in package whois
I would say you are getting your self in trouble. I don't see why a
weather program should mess with the password encryption. Better be
careful what programs you install in your machine.
The original poster got an answer to his problem, but as a follow-up to this -- you didn't read the output very carefully before sending him your "warning'".
It wasn't messing with passwords -- it was replacing (or attempting to replace) the mkpasswd man page, which while annoying, didn't constitute any security risk unless it included bogus instructions.
In addition it was the "expect" automation scripting language, which is well-known and has been around for years and years...
His biggest problem was probably that the weather script is just an example of how to use expect and therefore confusion about the need to install expect to get the weather program. (Whoever figured that one out, kudos... I was thinking when I first read this that perhaps expect was a prerequisite for some other program and some website somewhere had instructed the original poster to "download all these RPM's and install them".
Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Basically when I did a rpm -qf /usr/bin/weather on the fedora machine, it gave me expect-5.39.0-93 package. But when I searched in the debian packages website, expect program did not have this file. So I thought debian's expect and Fedora's expect programs are different. So I downloaded Fedora's rpm package and did a alien --to-deb on this rpm. As my previous post suggests, I was not able to install the new .deb file... You know the rest of the story...
regards raju
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