[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Paul Garcia wrote:
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> > i took a look at 'man rpm' and at the very beginning of this document is
> > a 'WARNING re: do not use rpm unless you know exactly what you are
> > doing.' (obviously worded just for me?) the user is then directed to
> > utilize the 'alien' package that does come in .deb format. i was
> > successful in the installation of Alien and used this to convert the
> > .rpm over to the .deb, everything is working as advertised.
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> read. I think that must be a Debian or Corel addition to 'man rpm'.
It's not Debian - I just had a look at the rpm man page on my Debian box here
and there's nothing like that.
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