On Tuesday 08 March 2005 08:36, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > Good Idea except Mepis uses .deb packages not rpm. > > philip > > Bj�rn Arne Lykken Lo wrote: > > Hi Warren/Mepis development team > > I have a suggestion to simplify installation > > of RPM packages so that one can install them > > simply by clicking a .rpm file. > > > > In Control Center/KDE Components/File Associations/Application > > where x-rpm is located. .rpm is setup to be run with Kpackage, > > which doesn't work. Kpackage should be removed from Application > > preference order and replaced with alien, and edit the > > command so it says as such: > > alien -i -v %U ; echo ; echo Done > > > > It should also be set up to run in terminal and not to close > > when command exits and to run as root. > > It works like a charm :) > Haven't you ever installed something which came as rpm on your machine? Liz
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