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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