RE: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra 
 what.  Is there a way to see what these applications
 are, without re-installing redhat???

There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is
called... I forget the name!  I'm without access to the web or to a
Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the search
machine in http://www.debian.org./


Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Amdocs Brasil Ltda

Re: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)

1998-11-29 Thread Mitch Blevins 
Leandro Dutra wrote:
  what.  Is there a way to see what these applications
  are, without re-installing redhat???
 
   There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is
 called... I forget the name!  I'm without access to the web or to a
 Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the search
 machine in http://www.debian.org./

There is a debian package that will read and install RPMs.
It is called rpm. (surprise)

However, it is disadvised to use it because it will bypass the dpkg system
and build up cruft on your system, and won't be able to read dependancies
between the two systems.

It is better to use the package called alien to first convert the rpm
to a deb, then install it with dpkg.

-Mitch

Re: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)

1998-11-29 Thread wtopa 

Subject: RE: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
Date: Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:00:42PM +0200

In reply to:Leandro Dutra

Quoting Leandro Dutra([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
  what.  Is there a way to see what these applications
  are, without re-installing redhat???
 
   There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is
 called... I forget the name!  I'm without access to the web or to a
 Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the search
 machine in http://www.debian.org./


Let me see, oh ya, its's called rpm. 

One version is in:
  dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/rpm_2.5.1-6.deb

HTH

 
 
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