Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread L. Besselink 


On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I
> think).  As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it
> is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here.  The .deb
> suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view.
> 
Well, it's part of teh Debian distribution, so I guess, the sourcxes
should be available, that would probably work better.
It's mostly a bad idea to try to put debian packages on other systems, but
debian.

> If you could please respond directly to me as well as to the list I
> would appreciate that as I am not on the list.

BTW why are you NOT on the list ?

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh 


a deb is an ar archive containing two tar.gz files.  Simply do:

ar x filename.deb
then tar zxvf the data.tar.gz.

A better solution however is to use alien.  It understands most
packagers.

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Havoc Pennington 

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote:
> 
> I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I
> think).  As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it
> is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here.  The .deb
> suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view.
>

The .deb version may or may not work even if you extract the software.

The best thing to do is get the original .tar.gz source file and compile
it yourself. You can get the .tar.gz from the page describing the package
on the Debian web site. (probably also you could find it by searching on
freshmeat.net.)
 
Havoc

installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Colin Rowat 
Hi all,

I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I
think).  As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it
is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here.  The .deb
suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view.

If you could please respond directly to me as well as to the list I
would appreciate that as I am not on the list.

Thanks,

Colin Rowat
King's College
Cambridge   tel: +44 (0)468 056 984
CB2 1ST UK  fax: +44 (0)1223 335 219