Or you could go to ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/project/dpkg/
and get dpkg as a tar file.....
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> Well ... as a happy Debian users, if I had the opporite problem (needeing to
> install something I could get only as an .rpm), I would use "alien" to
> convert it from .rpm to .deb. I imagine alien works in both directions,
> though I've never tried it the other way. You might look for an alien.*.rpm
> package.
>
> At 11:12 AM 7/19/00 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> >Am I in a nightmare ?
> >
> >I would like to install on my Mandrake system (which is a variant of RH from
> >what I hear) the Wordperfect which resides on my Corel Linux CD.
> >
> >WP comes as a .deb file.
> >
> >So I need dpkg to install it
> >
> >But the only dpkg I have is also in a .deb file ;-(
>
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> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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