On Monday 07 March 2005 22:36, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > Good Idea except Mepis uses .deb packages not rpm.
Except that via alien Mepis also can use .rpm packages. Does not work right all the time though. Useful when there is no .deb. Regards, Ko > > 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 :) > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-mepis mailing list > [email protected] > http://mepis.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-mepis_mepis.org -- Ko _______________________________________________ Dev-mepis mailing list [email protected] http://mepis.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-mepis_mepis.org
