On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:09:32AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Could some good soul using Debian please help me? > Will try to do that.
> Would s/he download the sources a > t http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/fbtv.html > then unDeb them (or what ever you call it ;-) > then tgz them and mail them over to me (off list) please? > Alien should do this. > Else can someone please suggest a util which will convert a .deb to > .tgz? > Else can someone please tell me if there is some util for Slackware > which would allow me to unDeb those files? > Maybe you should try checkinstall. Couple of days downloaded it. A good piece of software for deb. rpm, tgz, etc. It puts packages compiled from sources into /usr/local, but creates an appropriate package so that it can be taken and installed on other similar machines or removed easily using package tools of the platform. Did a deb of latest audacity and works fine. http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html -- Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Roman Polanski makes his own blood. He's smart -- that's why his movies work." -- A brilliant director at "Frank's Place" _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
